Willie Pep

Willie Pep has a reach of 68″ against a height of 65″ — a reach advantage of +4.6%, long for featherweight boxing and the 77th percentile of the 101 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+4.6%

68″ reach on a 65″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 101 featherweight boxing fighters. Median 3%.

-3.7%featherweight boxing reach advantage9.3%

Measurements
Reach	68″ (172.7 cm)	51st pct
Height	65″ (165.1 cm)	24th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Featherweight Boxing
Peak era	1940s
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

229–11

241 bouts on record

Finish rate

28%

of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight boxing median 51%, 15th percentile

By knockout 28%
By decision 72%

The career, bout by bout

222 recorded bouts from 1940 to 1966. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1940–1966

Career span

27y

1940–1966

Longest unbeaten run

55

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1942

22 bouts

Recorded bouts

222

222 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1966	L	Calvin Woodland	Decision	6
1965	W	Ray Coleman	KO/TKO	5
1965	W	Sergio Musquiz	KO/TKO	5
1965	W	Tommy Haden	KO/TKO	3
1965	W	Willie Little	KO/TKO	3
1965	W	Johnny Gilmore	Decision	6
1965	W	Benny 'Red' Randall	Decision	10
1965	W	Jackie Lennon	Decision	6
1959	W	Harold McKeever	Decision	8
1959	L	Sonny Leon	Decision	10
1958	L	Hogan 'Kid' Bassey	KO/TKO	9
1958	W	Al Duarte	Decision	10
1958	W	Jesse Rodriguez	Decision	10
1958	W	Luis Carmona	Decision	10
1958	W	Bobby Bell	Decision	10
1958	W	Bobby Soares	Decision	10
1958	W	Pat McCoy	Decision	10
1958	W	Bobby Singleton	Decision	10
1958	W	Jimmy Kelly	Decision	10
1958	W	Cleo Ortiz	Decision	10
1958	W	George Stephany	Decision	10
1958	W	Prince Johnson	Decision	10
1958	L	Tommy Tibbs	Decision	10
1957	W	Jimmy Connors	Decision	10
1957	W	Russell Tague	Decision	10
1957	W	Manny Castro	Decision	10
1957	W	Cesar Morales	Decision	10
1956	W	Hector Bacquettes	KO/TKO	5
1956	W	Russell Tague	KO/TKO	6
1956	W	Manuel Armenteros	KO/TKO	6
1956	W	Jackie Blair	Decision	10
1956	W	Buddy Baggett	Decision	10
1956	W	Kid Campeche	Decision	10
1955	W	Andy Arel	Decision	10
1955	W	Leo Carter	KO/TKO	4
1955	W	Henry 'Pappy' Gault	Decision	10
1955	W	Charley Titone	Decision	10
1955	W	Jimmy Ithia	KO/TKO	6
1955	W	Hector Rodriguez	Decision	10
1955	W	Mickey Mars	KO/TKO	7
1955	W	Joey Cam	KO/TKO	3
1955	W	Gil Cadilli	Decision	10
1955	W	Myrel Olmstead	Decision	10
1954	W	Mario 'Eladio' Colon	Decision	10
1954	W	Til LeBlanc	Decision	10
1954	W	Mike Tourcotte	Decision	10
1954	L	Lulu Perez	KO/TKO	2
1954	W	Davey Seabrook	Decision	10
1953	W	Tony Longo	Decision	10
1953	W	Billy Lima	KO/TKO	2
1953	W	Davey Allen	Decision	10
1953	W	Sonny Luciano	Decision	10
1953	W	Pat Marcune	KO/TKO	10
1953	W	Jackie Blair	Decision	10
1953	W	Noel Paquette	Decision	10
1953	W	Joey Gambino	Decision	10
1953	W	Pepe Alvarez	Decision	10
1953	W	Dave Mitchell	Decision	10
1953	W	Billy Lauderdale	Decision	10
1952	W	Jorge Sanchez	Decision	10

Showing the 60 most recent of 222 recorded bouts.

22 of these opponents have their own page here.

Closest in build

featherweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

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 101 featherweight 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: Willie Pep on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-25. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.