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Division profile

Middleweight boxing

What middleweight boxing fighters actually measure — 269 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+2.83%

Across the 269 middleweight boxing fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 2.83% — a median reach of 72″ on a median height of 70″. 79% fight orthodox.

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

Cohort profile

The division's shape

Median reach

72″

182.9 cm

Median height

70″

177.8 cm

Median reach advantage

2.83%

of body height

Median finish rate

60%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

269

123 with a reach on file

-3.8%middleweight boxing reach advantage8.7%

Stance

  • orthodox79%
  • southpaw21%

By era

  • 2010s43
  • 2000s34
  • 1990s14
  • 2020s14
  • 1930s13
  • 1970s12
  • 1980s11
  • 1950s10

By country

  • United States96
  • United Kingdom24
  • Italy11
  • Canada9
  • Russia9
  • France8
  • Germany7
  • Mexico7
  • Australia7
  • Argentina7

How this division is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under middleweight boxing — 269 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

middleweight boxing — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Avtandil Khurtsidze72.8″64.2″+13.5%
2Marlon Starling74″68″+8.86%
3Gorilla Jones75″69″+8.67%
4Emile Griffith72″66.5″+8.29%
5Les Darcy71″66″+7.58%
6Yoshihiro Sato78.7″73.2″+7.47%
7Lou Brouillard72″67″+7.46%
8José Nápoles72″67″+7.46%
9Bert Schenk74″69″+7.24%
10Marvelous Marvin Hagler75″70″+7.14%
11Lonnie Bradley76″71″+7.04%
12Jack Dillon72″67.5″+6.65%
13Carlos Monzón76″71.3″+6.63%
14Robert Allen73″69″+5.76%
15Quincy Taylor73″69″+5.76%
16Austin Trout73″69″+5.76%
17Ayub Kalule73″69″+5.76%
18Sechew Powell74″70″+5.74%
19Willie Monroe Jr.74″70″+5.74%
20Raúl Márquez74″70″+5.74%
21Jason Matthews74″70″+5.74%
22Harold Johnson74″70″+5.74%
23Rubin Carter72″68.1″+5.72%
24Paul Williams78″74″+5.37%
25Keith Holmes78″74″+5.37%
26Marcel Cerdan69″66″+4.59%
27Esteban Gallard71″68″+4.4%
28Vince Dundee71″68″+4.4%
29Sumbu Kalambay72″69″+4.34%
30Johnny Wilson72″69″+4.34%
31Buster Drayton74″71″+4.27%
32Howard Eastman74″71″+4.27%
33Eddie McGoorty73″70″+4.27%
34Grady Brewer73″70″+4.27%
35Sergio Martínez73″70″+4.27%
36John Jackson75″72″+4.16%
37Giorgio Petrosyan73″70.1″+4.16%
38Ryōta Murata75″72″+4.16%
39Tony Harrison76″73″+4.1%
40Callum Walsh71.7″69″+3.82%

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

All 269 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many middleweight boxing fighters have a reach on record?
123 of 269. 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 123. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for middleweight boxing?
That the typical middleweight boxing fighter's reach exceeds their height by 2.83% 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
Lightweight boxing

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

270 FIGHTERS Featherweight boxing

The nearest cohort in size to middleweight boxing — 247 fighters against 269, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

247 FIGHTERS By decade

Whether middleweight 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
Sideline US

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DATA · JUL 2026 amitsharma.co.nz

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