Len Harvey
122–14 · 127 recorded bouts · 1920–1942
Len Harvey finished 47% of 122 wins inside the distance — the 13th percentile for heavyweight boxing, where the median is 68%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 8: flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1930s | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Len Harvey, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
122–14
146 bouts on record
Finish rate
47%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 13th percentile
The career, bout by bout
127 recorded bouts from 1920 to 1942. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
23y
1920–1942
Longest unbeaten run
43
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1924
14 bouts
Recorded bouts
127
126 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | L | Freddie Mills | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1939 | W | Jock McAvoy | Decision | 15 |
| 1939 | W | Larry Gains | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1938 | W | Eddie Phillips | DQ | 4 |
| 1938 | W | Jock McAvoy | Decision | 15 |
| 1937 | W | Manuel Kid Abrew | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1936 | L | John Henry Lewis | Decision | 15 |
| 1936 | L | Jack Petersen | Decision | 15 |
| 1935 | W | Eddie Phillips | Decision | 15 |
| 1935 | W | Marcel Lauriot | Decision | 10 |
| 1934 | D | Walter Neusel | Decision | 12 |
| 1934 | L | Jack Petersen | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1934 | W | Jimmy Tarante | DQ | 5 |
| 1934 | W | Larry Gains | Decision | 15 |
| 1933 | W | Jack Petersen | Decision | 15 |
| 1933 | W | Carmelo Candel | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1933 | W | Eddie Phillips | Decision | 15 |
| 1933 | L | Jock McAvoy | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | Jack Casey | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | Glen Moody | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1932 | W | Seaman Albert Harvey | Decision | 10 |
| 1932 | W | Theo Sas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1932 | L | Marcel Thil | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | Len Johnson | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | Jock McAvoy | Decision | 15 |
| 1932 | W | George Slack | Decision | 15 |
| 1931 | W | Fred Shaw | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1931 | W | Jerry Daley | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1931 | W | Jack Hood | Decision | 15 |
| 1931 | W | Rene De Vos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1931 | L | Ben Jeby | Decision | 12 |
| 1931 | L | Vince Dundee | Decision | 12 |
| 1930 | W | George Slack | Decision | 12 |
| 1930 | W | Dave Shade | Decision | 15 |
| 1930 | W | Henri Vandevyvere | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1930 | W | Charlie McDonald | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1930 | W | Steve McCall | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1930 | W | Frans Stevens | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1929 | D | Jack Hood | Decision | 15 |
| 1929 | W | Alex Ireland | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1929 | W | Frank Moody | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1928 | W | Amedee Dubus | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1928 | W | Leo Frick | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1928 | W | Johnny Sullivan | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1928 | W | Auguste Lengagne | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1928 | W | Guardsman George West | DQ | 4 |
| 1928 | W | Emile Egrel | Decision | 15 |
| 1928 | W | Jean Forr | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1928 | W | Kid Nitram | DQ | 14 |
| 1927 | W | Marcel Thil | Decision | 15 |
| 1927 | W | Emile Egrel | Decision | 15 |
| 1927 | W | Jack Etienne | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1927 | W | Piet Brand | Decision | 14 |
| 1927 | W | Primo Ubaldo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1927 | W | Billy Farmer | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1927 | W | Charles Screve | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1927 | W | Joe Rolfe | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1927 | W | Joe Bloomfield | DQ | 11 |
| 1927 | W | Maurice Prunier | Decision | 15 |
| 1927 | L | Len Johnson | Decision | 20 |
Showing the 60 most recent of 127 recorded bouts.
19 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 587 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
Source: Len Harvey on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.