Antonio Tarver
75″ reach · +1.33% reach advantage · 22nd percentile
31–6–1
Antonio Tarver has a reach of 75″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +1.33%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 22nd percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Antonio Tarver — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-25. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | D | Steve Cunningham | Draw | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Johnathon Banks | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2013 | W | Mike Sheppard | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2012 | ? | Lateef Kayode | — | 12 |
| 2011 | W | Danny Green | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2010 | W | Nagy Aguilera | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | L | Chad Dawson | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | L | Chad Dawson | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | Clinton Woods | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Danny Santiago | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2007 | W | Elvir Muriqi | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | L | Bernard Hopkins | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | W | Roy Jones Jr. | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | W | Glen Johnson | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | L | Glen Johnson | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | W | Roy Jones Jr. | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Roy Jones Jr. | — | 12 |
| 2003 | W | Montell Griffin | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Eric Harding | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2002 | W | Reggie Johnson | — | 12 |
| 2001 | W | Chris Johnson | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2001 | W | Lincoln Carter | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2000 | L | Eric Harding | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Ernest Mateen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Mohamed Benguesmia | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1999 | W | Jerry Williams | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1999 | W | Roy Francis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1999 | W | John Williams | — | 4 |
| 1998 | W | Rocky Gannon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Jose Luis Rivera | — | 4 |
| 1998 | W | Charles Oliver | Decision | 8 |
| 1998 | W | Boyer Chew | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1997 | W | Roy Francis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Benito Fernandez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Berry Butler | — | 6 |
| 1997 | W | Shelby Gross | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Tracy Barrios | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Jason Burrell | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Joaquin Garcia | — | 2 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Antonio Tarver — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.33%
75″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 24th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: light heavyweight, cruiserweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 18 of 39 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
31–6
39 bouts on record
Finish rate
71%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 57th percentile
The career, bout by bout
40 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1997–2015
Longest unbeaten run
15
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1997
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
40
39 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Elieser Castillo+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- Scott Welch+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- Sefer Seferi+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- Adam Balski+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- Herbie Hide+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- James J. Braddock+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- Lee Savold+1.34% 74.5″ reach · 24th pct
- John McDermott+1.31% 76″ reach · 20th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Antonio Tarver's record?
- 31–6–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 40 bouts individually.
- How many of Antonio Tarver's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 40. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Tarver sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing18 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Antonio Tarver vs Chad DawsonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2008 Longest unbeaten runsAntonio Tarver went 15 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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