Charley Burley
83–12 · 90 recorded bouts · 1936–1950
Charley Burley finished 60% of 83 wins inside the distance — the 61st percentile for welterweight boxing, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1940s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Charley Burley, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
83–12
98 bouts on record
Finish rate
60%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 61st percentile
The career, bout by bout
90 recorded bouts from 1936 to 1950. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1936–1950
Longest unbeaten run
24
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1942
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
90
89 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | W | Pilar Bastidas | Decision | 10 |
| 1950 | W | Buddy Hodnett | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1950 | W | Chuck Higgins | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1949 | W | Willie Wright | Decision | 8 |
| 1949 | L | Charley Doc Williams | Decision | 10 |
| 1948 | W | Lonnie Craft | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1947 | W | Larry Cartwright | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1947 | L | Bert Lytell | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Bert Lytell | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Charley Banks | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Oakland Billy Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1946 | W | Paulie Peters | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1946 | W | Charley Dodson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1945 | W | Oakland Billy Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1945 | W | Speedy Duvall | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1945 | W | Dave Clark | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1945 | W | Aaron Wade | Decision | 10 |
| 1945 | W | Oscar Boyd | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1945 | L | Holman Williams | Decision | 12 |
| 1945 | W | Joe Carter | Decision | 10 |
| 1944 | W | Jack Chase | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1944 | W | Young Gene Buffalo | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1944 | W | Frankie Nelson | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1944 | W | Al Gilbert | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1944 | W | Archie Moore | Decision | 10 |
| 1944 | W | Aaron Wade | Decision | 10 |
| 1944 | W | Bobby Berger | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1943 | W | Bobby Birch | Decision | 10 |
| 1943 | ? | Holman Williams | — | 10 |
| 1943 | D | Herbert Lewis Hardwick | Decision | 10 |
| 1943 | W | Aaron Wade | Decision | 10 |
| 1943 | W | Jack Chase | Decision | 10 |
| 1943 | W | Harvey Massey | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1942 | L | Lloyd Marshall | Decision | 10 |
| 1942 | W | Cecilio Lozada | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1942 | L | Holman Williams | Decision | 15 |
| 1942 | L | Ezzard Charles | Decision | 10 |
| 1942 | W | George Wilson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1942 | W | Joe Sutka | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1942 | W | Phil McQuillan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1942 | W | Cleo McNeal | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1942 | W | Jay D Turner | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1942 | W | Shorty Hogue | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1942 | W | Milo Theodorescu | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1942 | W | Jackie Burke | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1941 | W | Jerry Hayes | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1941 | W | Ted Morrison | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1941 | W | Antonio Fernandez | Decision | 10 |
| 1941 | W | Otto Blackwell | Decision | 8 |
| 1941 | W | Young Gene Buffalo | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1941 | W | Ossie Harris | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1941 | W | Eddie Ellis | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1941 | W | Babe Synnott | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1940 | W | Vince Pimpinella | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Ernest Peirce | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | L | Jimmy Bivins | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Kenny LaSalle | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | D | Georgie Abrams | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Carl Dell | Decision | 10 |
| 1940 | W | Sam Edwards | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing the 60 most recent of 90 recorded bouts.
16 of these opponents have their own page here.
How this is worked out
- Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 292 welterweight boxing fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Charley Burley on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.