What featherweight boxing fighters actually measure — 247 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.
median reach advantage
+3%
Across the 247 featherweight boxing fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 3% — a median reach of 67″ on a median height of 66″.
80% fight orthodox.
SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026
Cohort profile
The division's shape
Median reach
67″
170.2 cm
Median height
66″
167.6 cm
Median reach advantage
3%
of body height
Median finish rate
51%
of wins inside the distance
Fighters
247
101 with a reach on file
-3.7%featherweight boxing reach advantage9.3%
Stance
orthodox80%
southpaw20%
By era
2000s31
2010s31
1990s26
1980s12
2020s12
1930s8
1960s8
1900s5
By country
United States73
United Kingdom26
Mexico24
Japan12
Panama9
Argentina7
France6
Philippines6
Venezuela6
Thailand5
How this division is compiled
Every published fighter this site files under featherweight boxing — 247 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
Medians, not means — one outlier should not move the typical figure.
A cohort is only published at 30 fighters or more. Below that a median is a rumour, so no page is emitted and nothing links to one.
How many featherweight boxing fighters have a reach on record?
101 of 247. Reach is stated in the English Wikipedia infobox for those and absent for the rest, so every reach figure on this page — including the median — describes only the 101. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for featherweight boxing?
That the typical featherweight boxing fighter's reach exceeds their height by 3% of that height. It is a ratio rather than a raw span, so it compares directly against any other cohort on this site — which a reach in inches does not. Half of these fighters are above it and half below; it is not a standard or a target.
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