Carlos Takam
80.3″ reach · +9.09% reach advantage · 89th percentile
40–8–1
Carlos Takam has a reach of 80.3″ against a height of 73.6″ — a reach advantage of +9.09%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 89th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Carlos Takam — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
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 2026-07-07. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | L | Martin Bakole | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2023 | W | Tony Yoka | — | 10 |
| 2022 | L | Arslanbek Makhmudov | Decision | 10 |
| 2021 | L | Joe Joyce | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2020 | W | Jerry Forrest | Decision | 10 |
| 2020 | W | Fábio Maldonado | Decision | 10 |
| 2019 | W | Craig Lewis | Decision | 10 |
| 2018 | W | Senad Gashi | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2018 | L | Derek Chisora | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2017 | L | Anthony Joshua | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2017 | W | Ivica Bacurin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Marcin Rekowski | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2016 | L | Joseph Parker | Decision | 12 |
| 2015 | W | George Arias | Decision | 8 |
| 2015 | W | Michael Sprott | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2015 | W | Marcelo Nascimento | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2014 | L | Alexander Povetkin | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2014 | W | Tony Thompson | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | D | Mike Perez | Draw | 10 |
| 2013 | W | Jakov Gospic | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Michael Grant | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2012 | W | Ivica Perković | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Tomáš Mrázek | Decision | 8 |
| 2012 | W | Francois Botha | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2011 | W | Samir Kurtagić | Decision | 8 |
| 2011 | W | Gbenga Oloukun | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2010 | W | Levan Jomardashvili | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Pavel Dolgovs | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2010 | W | Humberto Évora | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Roman Kracik | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Grégory Tony | — | 8 |
| 2009 | W | Stéphane Tessier | Decision | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Humberto Évora | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Daniel Bispo | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Norbert Sallai | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Daniil Peretyatko | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2007 | W | János Somogyi | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Cătălin Zmărăndescu | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Ioan Mihai | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Ioan Teosorejus | — | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Leon Nzama-Nawezhi | Decision | 4 |
| 2006 | W | Roger Foe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ioan Mihai | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Harry Duiven Jr. | — | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ibrahim Camara | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Valentin Marinel | — | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Thierry Guezouli | Decision | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Zine Eddine Benmakhlouf | — | 6 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
18 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Carlos Takam — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+9.09%
80.3″ reach on a 73.6″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 80.3″ (204 cm) | 76th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73.6″ (187 cm) | 38th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 23 of 48 dated bouts | |
| Country | France |
Record
Boxing record
40–8
49 bouts on record
Finish rate
70%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 55th percentile
The career, bout by bout
49 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2023. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2005–2023
Longest unbeaten run
17
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
49
48 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Lennox Lewis+9.1% 84″ reach · 90th pct
- Sirimongkol Singmanasak+9.13% 72″ reach · 90th pct
- Mike Williams+9.22% 83″ reach · 90th pct
- Tommy Burns+8.93% 73″ reach · 89th pct
- Julio César La Cruz+8.85% 78″ reach · 89th pct
- Kevin Johnson+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Steve Cunningham+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Donovan Ruddock+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Carlos Takam's record?
- 40–8–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 49 bouts individually.
- How many of Carlos Takam's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 49. 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 Takam sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 2010s boxing23 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
730 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsCarlos Takam went 17 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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