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Light heavyweight boxing

What light heavyweight boxing fighters actually measure — 212 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+2.79%

Across the 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 2.79% — a median reach of 73″ on a median height of 71.8″. 78% fight orthodox.

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

Cohort profile

The division's shape

Median reach

73″

185.4 cm

Median height

71.8″

182.45 cm

Median reach advantage

2.79%

of body height

Median finish rate

58%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

212

98 with a reach on file

-2.7%light heavyweight boxing reach advantage15.3%

Stance

  • orthodox78%
  • southpaw22%

By era

  • 2010s39
  • 2000s32
  • 1990s16
  • 2020s15
  • 1980s10
  • 1930s8
  • 1970s6
  • 1940s4

By country

  • United States66
  • United Kingdom22
  • Germany15
  • France6
  • Canada6
  • Australia6
  • Kingdom of Denmark5
  • Italy5
  • Russia5
  • Argentina4

How this division is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under light heavyweight boxing — 212 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

light heavyweight boxing — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Willie Pastrano72″60″+20.01%
2Rudy Koopmans83.1″72″+15.3%
3Swarmz77″69″+11.58%
4Damien Hooper80″72″+11.1%
5Adonis Stevenson77″71″+8.49%
6Joe Fournier78″72″+8.31%
7John Mugabi74″68.5″+8.05%
8Mads Larsen77″71.5″+7.71%
9Young Firpo72″67″+7.46%
10Anton Christoforidis72″68″+5.91%
11Anaclet Wamba79.1″74.8″+5.79%
12Eddie Brooker73″69″+5.76%
13Kid Norfolk74″70″+5.74%
14Jeff Lacy74″70″+5.74%
15Tavoris Cloud74″70″+5.74%
16Sugar Ray Leonard74″70″+5.74%
17Tiger Jack Fox75″71″+5.66%
18Matthew Saad Muhammad75″71″+5.66%
19Gus Lesnevich72.8″69″+5.53%
20Joe Smith Jr.76″72″+5.52%
21David Morrell Jr.77″73″+5.5%
22Vicente Rondón77″73″+5.5%
23Victor Cordoba77″73″+5.5%
24Julius Jackson78″74″+5.37%
25Ezequiel Maderna78″74″+5.32%
26Maurice Harris80″76″+5.28%
27Dick Tiger71″67.7″+4.83%
28Mike McTigue72″68.9″+4.57%
29Adrian Diaconu72″68.9″+4.57%
30Montell Griffin70″67″+4.47%
31Harry Greb71″68″+4.4%
32Winky Wright73″70″+4.27%
33Michael Nunn77″74″+4.04%
34Callum Smith78″75″+3.99%
35Andrzej Fonfara77.2″74.4″+3.7%
36Brian Vera74.4″72″+3.28%
37Igor Mikhalkin75.2″72.8″+3.24%
38Chong-Pal Park72″70″+2.87%
39Bob Olin72″70″+2.87%
40Reggie Johnson72″70″+2.87%

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

All 212 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many light heavyweight boxing fighters have a reach on record?
98 of 212. 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 98. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for light heavyweight boxing?
That the typical light heavyweight boxing fighter's reach exceeds their height by 2.79% 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
Featherweight MMA

The nearest cohort in size to light heavyweight boxing — 225 fighters against 212, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

225 FIGHTERS Bantamweight boxing

The nearest cohort in size to light heavyweight boxing — 194 fighters against 212, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

194 FIGHTERS By decade

Whether light 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.

LEADERBOARD
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DATA · JUL 2026 amitsharma.co.nz

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