István Kovács
66″ reach · -1.53% reach advantage · 7th percentile
22–1
István Kovács has a reach of 66″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of -1.53%, unusually short for featherweight boxing and the 7th percentile of the 101 compared here.
SOURCE·István Kovács (boxer) — 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 101 featherweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | W | Steve Trumble | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Jose Alfonso Rodriguez | Decision | 8 |
| 2001 | L | Pablo Chacón | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2001 | W | Antonio Díaz | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Agustin Lorenzo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Steve Robinson | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Ismael Lopez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Juan Manuel Chavez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Euloge Makiza Sita | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1999 | W | Kimoun Kouassi | Decision | 8 |
| 1999 | W | Dramane Nabaloum | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Manuel Gomes | Decision | 8 |
| 1999 | W | Mario Nestor Cabello | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Alexander Tiranov | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1998 | W | Vincenzo Belcastro | Decision | 8 |
| 1998 | W | Paul Kaoma | Decision | 8 |
| 1998 | W | Jozef Kubovsky | Decision | 8 |
| 1998 | W | Kino Rodriguez | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1998 | W | Mike Deveney | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Wilson Acuna | Decision | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Pascal Montulet | Decision | 6 |
| 1997 | W | Brahim Abouda | Decision | 6 |
| 1997 | W | Ahmed Lain | KO/TKO | 1 |
2 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·István Kovács (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-1.53%
66″ reach on a 67″ frame
Compared against 101 featherweight boxing fighters. Median 3%.
| Reach | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 22nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 64th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 15 of 23 dated bouts | |
| Country | Hungary |
Record
Boxing record
22–1
23 bouts on record
Finish rate
50%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight boxing median 51%, 45th percentile
The career, bout by bout
23 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2002. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
6y
1997–2002
Longest unbeaten run
20
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1998
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
23
23 with a date
Closest in build
featherweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Wayne McCullough, OLY-1.53% 66″ reach · 7th pct
- Ada Vélez-1.56% 62″ reach · 6th pct
- Choi Tseveenpurev-1.49% 65″ reach · 9th pct
- Naseem Hamed-1.6% 63″ reach · 5th pct
- Scott Quigg-1.45% 67″ reach · 10th pct
- Kid Chocolate-1.79% 65″ reach · 4th pct
- Vic Darchinyan-1.2% 64.6″ reach · 11th pct
- Tommy Paul-0.8% 63.5″ reach · 12th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is István Kovács's record?
- 22–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 23 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 247 featherweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Kovács sits inside.
247 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing15 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS István Kovács vs Pablo ChacónA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2001 Longest unbeaten runsIstván Kovács went 20 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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