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BoxRec

The official record keeper of professional boxing — every fighter's bout-by-bout record, endorsed by the Association of Boxing Commissions.
✓ Last reviewed: August 2026
CountryUnited Kingdom
TypeRecords database (editor-curated, commission-fed)
StandingSole official record keeper (ABC, 2018, 34–2 vote)
Legal basisResults reported per 15 U.S.C. § 6307 to ABC-certified registries
CoverageAll professional boxing, worldwide + historical

What is BoxRec?

BoxRec is the records database of world boxing: bout-by-bout professional records for essentially every boxer in history, updated from commission results worldwide, at boxrec.com.[1] [2]

How is BoxRec compiled — is it crowdsourced?

No — not in the open-wiki sense. BoxRec is maintained by a curated network of editors, each assigned a country or region, who compile records from boxing-commission fight reports, primary press archives and direct contact with commissions worldwide, adding on the order of 7,500 entries per week. The public cannot edit records directly; corrections are submitted to editors, who verify them against sources.[2] [3]

What does BoxRec provide?

Fighter pages with complete professional records (wins–losses–draws, KOs, opponents, dates, venues), division ratings, event pages, and data used by commissions for licensing — plus historical records reaching back to the bare-knuckle era.[1] [2]

What is BoxRec's official standing?

BoxRec holds formal recognition on three levels. The Association of Boxing Commissions — the umbrella of North America's regulators — voted 34–2 at its 2018 convention to endorse BoxRec as the sole official record keeper of professional boxing, and maintains a dedicated BoxRec page on its own site.[4] [5] Behind that designation sits federal law: under the Professional Boxing Safety Act (15 U.S.C. § 6307), supervising commissions must report every match result within 48 business hours to the boxer registries certified by the ABC — the statutory pipeline that feeds BoxRec's records.[6]

Why does BoxRec matter?

A boxer's BoxRec page is the canonical third-party document of a professional career — record, opposition, titles and rankings in one citable source, standing at the end of a legally mandated reporting chain and recognized by the sport's regulators themselves.[4] [6]

References

  1. BoxRec — About. Accessed August 2026.
  2. BoxRec — BoxRec.com (how records are compiled). Accessed August 2026.
  3. Wikipedia — BoxRec (background). Accessed August 2026.
  4. ABC — Official record keeper update (convention document). Accessed August 2026.
  5. Association of Boxing Commissions — BoxRec. Accessed August 2026.
  6. 15 U.S.C. § 6307 — Reporting (Professional Boxing Safety Act). Accessed August 2026.