Gerrie Coetzee
81.1″ reach · +7.29% reach advantage · 83rd percentile
33–6–1
Gerrie Coetzee has a reach of 81.1″ against a height of 75.6″ — a reach advantage of +7.29%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 83rd percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Gerrie Coetzee — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | L | Iran Barkley | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1997 | W | Dan Kosmicki | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | West Turner | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1993 | W | Dave Fiddler | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1986 | L | Frank Bruno | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | James Tillis | Decision | 10 |
| 1984 | L | Greg Page | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1983 | W | Michael Dokes | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1983 | D | Pinklon Thomas | Draw | 10 |
| 1982 | W | Stan Ward | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Scott LeDoux | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1982 | W | Fossie Schmidt | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1981 | W | Leroy Caldwell | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1981 | L | Renaldo Snipes | — | 10 |
| 1981 | W | George Chaplin | Decision | 10 |
| 1980 | L | Mike Weaver | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1980 | W | Mike Koranicki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1979 | L | John Tate | — | 15 |
| 1979 | W | Leon Spinks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1978 | W | Ibar Arrington | Decision | 10 |
| 1978 | W | Randy Stephens | Decision | 10 |
| 1977 | W | Johnny Boudreaux | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1977 | W | Tom Prater | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1977 | W | Mike Schutte | Decision | 12 |
| 1977 | W | Pierre Fourie | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1976 | W | James Mathatho | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1976 | W | Kallie Knoetze | Decision | 10 |
| 1976 | W | Mike Schutte | — | 6 |
| 1976 | W | Ron Stander | — | 8 |
| 1976 | W | Jimmy Richards | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1976 | W | Hartmut Sasse | Decision | 8 |
| 1975 | W | Chris Roos | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1975 | W | Hennie Thoonen | — | 3 |
| 1975 | W | Amedeo Laureti | Decision | 6 |
| 1975 | W | Steve Foley | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1974 | W | Kosie Oosthuizen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1974 | W | Bert Nikkelen Kuyper | — | 1 |
| 1974 | W | Chris Roos | — | 4 |
16 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Gerrie Coetzee — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+7.29%
81.1″ reach on a 75.6″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 81.1″ (206 cm) | 81st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75.6″ (192 cm) | 69th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 21 of 38 dated bouts | |
| Country | South Africa |
Record
Boxing record
33–6
40 bouts on record
Finish rate
64%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 41st percentile
The career, bout by bout
38 recorded bouts from 1974 to 1997. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
24y
1974–1997
Longest unbeaten run
19
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1976
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
38
38 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Giannis Stoforidis+7.51% 80″ reach · 84th pct
- Sherman Williams+7.04% 76″ reach · 83rd pct
- Vaughn Bean+7.04% 76″ reach · 83rd pct
- Gregorio Peralta+6.94% 77″ reach · 82nd pct
- Johann Duhaupas+7.69% 82.7″ reach · 84th pct
- Owen LeFranc Beck+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- Jack Gardner+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- J. B. Williamson+6.85% 78″ reach · 81st pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Gerrie Coetzee's record?
- 33–6–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 38 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 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Coetzee sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing21 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
115 FIGHTERS Frank Bruno vs Gerrie CoetzeeA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1986 Longest unbeaten runsGerrie Coetzee went 19 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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