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Lightweight boxing

What lightweight boxing fighters actually measure — 270 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+3.02%

Across the 270 lightweight boxing fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 3.02% — a median reach of 69″ on a median height of 67″. 81% fight orthodox.

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

Cohort profile

The division's shape

Median reach

69″

175.3 cm

Median height

67″

170.2 cm

Median reach advantage

3.02%

of body height

Median finish rate

51%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

270

120 with a reach on file

-2.3%lightweight boxing reach advantage8.9%

Stance

  • orthodox81%
  • southpaw19%

By era

  • 2010s53
  • 2000s25
  • 1990s23
  • 2020s20
  • 1960s10
  • 1920s9
  • 1980s8
  • 1970s8

By country

  • United States81
  • United Kingdom30
  • Mexico25
  • Japan9
  • France8
  • Italy6
  • Philippines6
  • South Africa6
  • Australia6
  • Ghana5

How this division is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under lightweight boxing — 270 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

lightweight boxing — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Marian Trimiar70″64″+9.35%
2Charlie Brown72″66″+9.13%
3Vicente Escobedo74″68″+8.86%
4Arash Usmanee74″68.1″+8.67%
5Joe Gans71″66″+7.58%
6Emanuel Navarrete72″67″+7.46%
7Abdullah Mason74″69″+7.24%
8Cassius Baloyi75″70″+7.14%
9Robert Easter Jr.76″71″+7.04%
10Young Griffo68″64″+6.21%
11Sugar Ramos68″64″+6.21%
12Jorge Páez69″65″+6.18%
13Marco Antonio Barrera70″66″+6.09%
14Juan Polo Pérez68.9″65″+6.06%
15Miguel Acosta71″67″+5.93%
16Orzubek Nazarov Орзубек Пулетович Назаров71″67″+5.93%
17Raymond Muratalla72″68″+5.91%
18O'Shaquie Foster72″68″+5.91%
19José Santa Cruz74″70″+5.74%
20Carlos Balderas72.8″68.9″+5.71%
21Tod Morgan71″67.5″+5.13%
22Benny Bass64″61″+4.97%
23Wesley Ramey67″64″+4.67%
24Michael Gomez68″65″+4.6%
25Alfred Kotey68″65″+4.6%
26Azumah Nelson68″65″+4.6%
27Gabriel Elorde68″65″+4.6%
28Davit Kiria70″66.9″+4.59%
29Edwin Valero69″66″+4.59%
30Billy Petrolle70.1″67″+4.58%
31Richar Abril72″68.9″+4.57%
32Diego Magdaleno70″67″+4.47%
33Young Peter Jackson70″67″+4.47%
34Ikram Kerwat70″67″+4.47%
35Mzonke Fana70″67″+4.47%
36Calvin Grove70″67″+4.47%
37Lakva Sim70″67″+4.47%
38Nihito Arakawa71″68″+4.4%
39Cornelius Boza-Edwards71″68″+4.4%
40Richard Commey71″68″+4.4%

Showing 40 of 120.

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

All 270 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many lightweight boxing fighters have a reach on record?
120 of 270. 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 120. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for lightweight boxing?
That the typical lightweight boxing fighter's reach exceeds their height by 3.02% 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
Middleweight boxing

The nearest cohort in size to lightweight boxing — 269 fighters against 270, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

269 FIGHTERS Featherweight boxing

The nearest cohort in size to lightweight boxing — 247 fighters against 270, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

247 FIGHTERS By decade

Whether lightweight 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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