Bernard Hopkins
71″ reach · -2.75% reach advantage · 0th percentile
55–8–2
Bernard Hopkins has a reach of 71″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of -2.75%, unusually short for light heavyweight boxing and the 0th percentile of the 98 compared here.
SOURCE·Bernard Hopkins — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-19
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 2026-07-19. 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 98 light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | L | Joe Smith Jr. | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2014 | L | Sergey Kovalev | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Beibut Shumenov | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Karo Murat | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Tavoris Cloud | Decision | 12 |
| 2012 | L | Chad Dawson | Decision | 12 |
| 2011 | N | Chad Dawson | — | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Jean Pascal | Decision | 12 |
| 2010 | D | Jean Pascal | Draw | 12 |
| 2010 | W | Roy Jones Jr. | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Enrique Ornelas | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | Kelly Pavlik | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | L | Joe Calzaghe | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Winky Wright | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Antonio Tarver | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | L | Jermain Taylor | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | W | Howard Eastman | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | W | Oscar De La Hoya | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2004 | W | Robert Allen | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | W | William Joppy | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | W | Morrade Hakkar | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2002 | W | Carl Daniels | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2001 | W | Félix Trinidad | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2001 | W | Keith Holmes | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Antwun Echols | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2000 | W | Syd Vanderpool | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Antwun Echols | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Robert Allen | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1998 | ? | Robert Allen | — | 4 |
| 1998 | W | Simon Brown | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1997 | W | Andrew Council | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Glen Johnson | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1997 | W | John David Jackson | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1996 | W | William Bo James | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1996 | W | Joe Lipsey | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1996 | W | Steve Frank | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Segundo Mercado | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1994 | D | Segundo Mercado | Draw | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Lupe Aquino | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Melvin Wynn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Wendall Hall | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Roy Ritchie | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1993 | L | Roy Jones Jr. | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Gilbert Baptist | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Wayne Powell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Eric Rhinehart | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | James Stokes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Aníbal Miranda | — | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Randy Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Dennis Milton | — | 4 |
| 1991 | W | Willie Kemp | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | David McCluskey | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1991 | W | Ralph Moncrief | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Danny Mitchell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Pedro Márquez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Steve Langley | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1991 | W | Richard Quiles | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Mike Sapp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Darren Oliver | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Percy Harris | Decision | 6 |
Showing 60 of 66 recorded bouts, most recent first.
29 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Bernard Hopkins — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-19
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-2.75%
71″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 13th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 68th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 39 of 66 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
55–8
71 bouts on record
Finish rate
51%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 39th percentile
The career, bout by bout
66 recorded bouts from 1988 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
29y
1988–2016
Longest unbeaten run
23
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1990
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
66
66 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Dieudonne Wilfred Seyi Ntsengue-2.73% 70.1″ reach · 1st pct
- Sven Ottke-1.69% 68.9″ reach · 2nd pct
- Sullivan Barrera-1.6% 72.8″ reach · 3rd pct
- Jake LaMotta-1.45% 67″ reach · 4th pct
- Andre Ward-1.42% 71″ reach · 5th pct
- Avni Yıldırım-1.39% 70″ reach · 6th pct
- Battling Levinsky-1.39% 70″ reach · 6th pct
- Jaidon Codrington-1.38% 73″ reach · 8th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Bernard Hopkins's record?
- 55–8–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 66 bouts individually.
- 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 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Hopkins sits inside.
212 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing39 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Beibut Shumenov vs Bernard HopkinsA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2014 Longest unbeaten runsBernard Hopkins went 23 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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