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Heavyweight boxing

What heavyweight boxing fighters actually measure — 605 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+3.99%

Across the 605 heavyweight boxing fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 3.99% — a median reach of 77.2″ on a median height of 74″. 91% fight orthodox.

SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

Cohort profile

The division's shape

Median reach

77.2″

196 cm

Median height

74″

188 cm

Median reach advantage

3.99%

of body height

Median finish rate

68%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

605

317 with a reach on file

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Stance

  • orthodox91%
  • southpaw9%

By era

  • 2010s96
  • 2000s75
  • 1990s51
  • 2020s44
  • 1980s29
  • 1970s16
  • 1930s14
  • 1920s12

By country

  • United States244
  • United Kingdom58
  • Germany27
  • Canada20
  • Poland17
  • Russia15
  • Ukraine14
  • Cuba14
  • Australia12
  • Italy12

How this division is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under heavyweight boxing — 605 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Medians, not means — one outlier should not move the typical figure.
  4. 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.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Longest reach for the frame

heavyweight boxing — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Sonny Liston84″73″+15.1%
2George Chuvalo CM82″72″+13.89%
3Harry Wills84″74″+13.51%
4Louis Monaco80″71″+12.7%
5Sam Langford74″66″+12.17%
6Hein ten Hoff84″75″+12.02%
7Bryant Jennings84″75″+12.02%
8Carl Williams85″76″+11.87%
9Audley Harrison86″77″+11.66%
10Steve Hérélius81″73″+10.95%
11Oliver McCall82″74″+10.8%
12Hasim Rahman82″74″+10.8%
13Buster Douglas83″75″+10.66%
14Luis Ortiz84″76″+10.57%
15David Izon83.1″75.2″+10.47%
16Efe Ajagba85″77″+10.38%
17Primo Carnera85″77″+10.38%
18Phil Jackson79″72″+9.73%
19Darroll Wilson79″72″+9.73%
20Earnie Shavers79″72″+9.73%
21James Tillis80″73″+9.6%
22Duane Bobick81.9″74.8″+9.47%
23Kirk Johnson81″74″+9.41%
24Greg Page81″74″+9.41%
25Johnny Nelson81″74″+9.41%
26Max Baer Sr.81″74″+9.41%
27Kevin Johnson82″75″+9.34%
28Steve Cunningham82″75″+9.34%
29Donovan Ruddock82″75″+9.34%
30Frank Bruno82″75″+9.34%
31Mike Williams83″76″+9.22%
32Sirimongkol Singmanasak72″66″+9.13%
33Lennox Lewis84″77″+9.1%
34Carlos Takam80.3″73.6″+9.09%
35Tommy Burns73″67″+8.93%
36Julio César La Cruz78″71.7″+8.85%
37Damian Knyba86″79″+8.82%
38Henry Akinwande86″79″+8.82%
39Michael Grant86″79″+8.82%
40Odlanier Solís79″73″+8.25%

Showing 40 of 317.

SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

All 605 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many heavyweight boxing fighters have a reach on record?
317 of 605. 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 317. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for heavyweight boxing?
That the typical heavyweight boxing fighter's reach exceeds their height by 3.99% 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.
Cross-references
Heavyweight MMA

The nearest cohort in size to heavyweight boxing — 335 fighters against 605, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

335 FIGHTERS Lightweight MMA

The nearest cohort in size to heavyweight boxing — 304 fighters against 605, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

304 FIGHTERS By decade

Whether heavyweight boxing looks the way it does because of the weight or because of the decade — the same fighters, cut by when they actually fought.

16 DECADES Longest reach for the frame

The extremes this cohort's median is drawn from, ranked across all 2,650 fighters with a reach on file.

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DATA · JUL 2026 amitsharma.co.nz

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