Babe Risko

Babe Risko finished 18% of 65 wins inside the distance — the 5th percentile for light heavyweight boxing, where the median is 58%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reach	not recorded
Height	70″ (177.8 cm)
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last
Peak era	1930s
Country	United States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Babe Risko, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

winlossdraw / NC1929–1939

Record

Boxing record

65–26

103 bouts on record

Finish rate

18%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 5th percentile

By knockout 18%
By decision 82%

The career, bout by bout

87 recorded bouts from 1929 to 1939. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

11y

1929–1939

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1934

14 bouts

Recorded bouts

87

86 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1939	L	Lloyd Marshall	KO/TKO	5
1939	L	Walter Franklin	KO/TKO	6
1938	L	Billy Soose	KO/TKO	3
1938	L	Ben Brown	KO/TKO	9
1938	L	Larry Lane	KO/TKO	2
1938	L	Ralph DeJohn	KO/TKO	7
1938	D	Al Quaill	Decision	10
1938	W	Gorilla Jones	Decision	10
1937	L	George Black	KO/TKO	5
1937	L	Al Hostak	KO/TKO	7
1937	L	Billy Conn	Decision	10
1937	L	Freddie Steele	Decision	15
1936	W	Butch Lynch	KO/TKO	8
1936	W	Tony Tozzo	Decision	10
1936	W	Harry Balsamo	Decision	10
1936	L	Teddy Yarosz	Decision	10
1936	L	Freddie Steele	Decision	15
1936	L	Fred Apostoli	Decision	10
1936	W	Mike Payan	Decision	10
1936	W	Tony Fisher	Decision	10
1935	L	Jock McAvoy	KO/TKO	1
1935	W	Frank Battaglia	Decision	10
1935	W	Chester Palutis	Decision	10
1935	W	Jackie Aldare	Decision	10
1935	W	Teddy Yarosz	Decision	15
1935	L	Paul Pirrone	Decision	10
1935	L	Jimmy Belmont	Decision	8
1935	W	Sammy Slaughter	Decision	10
1935	W	Benny Levine	KO/TKO	2
1935	D	Solly Dukelsky	Decision	10
1935	L	Vince Dundee	Decision	10
1934	W	Pete Susky	Decision	6
1934	W	Al Salbano	Decision	10
1934	W	Freddie Sallus	KO/TKO	8
1934	W	Weiner Wilch	KO/TKO	2
1934	W	Chester Palutis	Decision	6
1934	D	Larry Wagner	Decision	6
1934	W	Joe Desmond	Decision	6
1934	D	Paulie Sykes	Decision	6
1934	W	Thomas Lawless	KO/TKO	5
1934	W	Jackie Flowers	Decision	6
1934	W	Joe Lyons	KO/TKO	3
1934	W	Steve Wolanin	Decision	6
1934	W	Frank LaSpina	KO/TKO	2
1934	L	Swede Berglund	KO/TKO	4
1933	W	Nick Ures	KO/TKO	3
1933	W	Johnny 'Bandit' Romero	Decision	10
1933	W	Deacon Leo Kelly	Decision	6
1933	L	Dutch Weimer	Decision	4
1933	W	Johnny Cavos	KO/TKO	3
1933	W	Ray Griffiths	KO/TKO	3
1933	W	Miles Murphy	KO/TKO	6
1933	W	Guy McKinney	KO/TKO	5
1933	L	Grant Willardson	DQ	3
1933	W	Jack O'Neill	Decision	6
1932	W	Johnny Reed	Decision	6
1932	W	Tony Pena	Decision	4
1932	W	Billy McMullen	Decision	6
1932	D	Harry Walton	Decision	4
1932	L	Leroy Brown	KO/TKO	6

Showing the 60 most recent of 87 recorded bouts.

13 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 208 light heavyweight 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

Full methodology →

Source: Eddie Babe Risko on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.