Est. 1984 / The Official Boxing Record Keeper
FightFax keeps the official record of professional boxing. Verified bouts, tracked suspensions, and complete fight histories, built on commission reports and kept for the safety of the sport.
Why We Exist
For most of the sport's history, there was no single trusted registry of professional bouts. Results lived in newspaper clippings and promoter memory. That gap was not only a record-keeping problem. It was a safety problem.
Pre-digital boxing had no single regulatory record. Results were scattered across clippings, promoters, and memory.
Hidden knockout losses and invented wins were common. Records were collected, not kept.
Without a complete bout and medical history, regulators could clear dangerous mismatches.
No audit trail meant no way to prove what a record should be, or to correct it with evidence.
What We Do
FightFax is an official record system, not a fan database. A bout enters the record only when an official commission report confirms it. That single standard is the difference between a number and a fact.
Every result is registered from an official commission report, checked, and kept with a complete audit trail.
Medical holds, knockout suspensions, and bans are tracked across jurisdictions so they cannot be quietly ignored.
Fighter profiles link generations of boxing across every weight class and era, with the true bout history attached.
The Standard We Keep
There is more than one honest way to build a record. FightFax chooses verification over speed. Both models below are legitimate. They simply answer to different masters.
Official commission reports only. Approved, verified, and audit-trailed before publication. Slower to add, harder to dispute.
Open editing from a broad contributor base. Faster coverage, with lighter verification on the way in.
How A Bout Becomes A Record
Select a step to see what happens behind it. Nothing reaches the public record until it clears all five.
A commission submits the official bout report directly to the database. The report, not a third party, is the source of record.
Why Accuracy Matters
A wrong record is not a typo in boxing. It is a fighter cleared for a fight they should never have taken. That is why the standard is strict.
Medical holds, brain bleeds, and orbital fractures are tracked across jurisdictions so a suspension in one place is visible everywhere.
Concealed knockout defeats inflate a fighter's apparent level. A complete record shows what really happened.
Regulators and matchmakers get the true experience gap between two fighters before a bout is sanctioned.
Knockout frequency and bout-frequency patterns flag fighters who may be carrying excessive accumulated damage.
Our History
Select a year to read what changed. The through-line is constant: from collecting rumors to keeping official records.
Ralph Citro, a cutman who worked more than 125 world title fights, turned archivist and founded Computer Boxing Update, later The Boxing Record Book. It was the first company to provide accurate record-keeping directly to boxing commissions, reconstructing roughly fifty years of missing bout-by-bout records from scratch.
By The Numbers
Figures reflect the FightFax / Pro Boxing Records database. Bout counts are stated conservatively pending reconciliation across legacy and digital records. In 2005, commissioners at the ABC Convention in Las Vegas audited the records at 100% accuracy, which led to sole official record-keeper recognition from the Association of Boxing Commissions.
Our Role, Defined
The value of a record is that no one can buy it. FightFax keeps a clear line between what it does and what it will never do.
How We Stay Free For Commissions
A record system only works if the people closest to the truth can report freely. So commissions and regulators, the supply side, always stay free. FightFax is funded by the parties who depend on verified records, not by the ones who provide them. That keeps the incentives clean.
State and national athletic commissions and sanctioning bodies submit bout and suspension data at no cost. Charging the supply side would only suppress the data the sport needs most.
Media, broadcasters, odds and integrity units, promoters, and professionals pay for verified access. They depend on the record being right, so they fund keeping it right.
Verified feeds for media, broadcasters, and integrity providers.
Pre-bout clearance and suspension cross-checks for promoters and matchmakers.
Managers, agents, and journalists who need the verified record as a working tool.
News, data updates, and announcements from FightFax. No noise, sent only when there is something worth keeping.
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The Record Lives Here
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