Jacob Matlala
59″ reach · +1.77% reach advantage · 47th percentile
53–13–2
Jacob Matlala has a reach of 59″ against a height of 58″ — a reach advantage of +1.77%, average for light flyweight boxing and the 47th percentile of the 36 compared here.
SOURCE·Jacob Matlala — 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 36 light flyweight 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 | Juan Herrera | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2001 | W | Mickey Cantwell | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2001 | W | Todd Makelim | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2000 | L | Peter Culshaw | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | L | Masibulele Makepula | Decision | 12 |
| 1998 | W | Rafael Orozco | Decision | 12 |
| 1998 | W | Ric Magramo | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | W | Víctor Burgos | — | 8 |
| 1997 | W | Luis Doria | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Michael Carbajal | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1997 | W | Mickey Cantwell | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Paul Weir | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1995 | W | Paul Weir | — | 5 |
| 1995 | W | Francisco Mendoza | Decision | 8 |
| 1995 | D | Sammy Stewart | Decision | 10 |
| 1995 | L | Alberto Jiménez | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1994 | W | Pretty Boy Lucas | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Francis Ampofo | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1993 | W | Luigi Camputaro | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1993 | W | Pablo Tiznado | Decision | 10 |
| 1993 | W | Pat Clinton | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1993 | W | Toto Hleli | Decision | 8 |
| 1992 | W | Mzukisi Sikali | Decision | 12 |
| 1991 | W | Raúl Acosta | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | L | Dave McAuley | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Ndoda Mayende | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1991 | W | Zolile Mbityi | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Wele Maqolo | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Ramón Solís | Decision | 10 |
| 1989 | W | Sonnyboy Nghona | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Daniel Ward | Decision | 10 |
| 1989 | W | Martín Cárdenas | Decision | 10 |
| 1989 | W | Odwa Mdleleni | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1989 | L | Jaji Sibali | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Ndoda Mayende | Decision | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Johannes Miya | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1988 | L | Vuyani Nene | Decision | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Daniel Ward | Decision | 8 |
| 1988 | W | Vumile Gomo | DQ | 7 |
| 1988 | W | Jacob Mazubiko | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1987 | L | Vuyani Nene | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | W | Kirk Morris | Decision | 8 |
| 1986 | W | Pillay Duiker | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | L | Vuyani Nene | Decision | 8 |
| 1985 | L | Mveleli Luzipho | Decision | 12 |
| 1985 | W | Pillay Duiker | Decision | 10 |
| 1985 | W | Nqaba Govuza | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1984 | W | Gilbert Makenete | Decision | 6 |
| 1984 | W | Thamsanqa Sogcwe | Decision | 8 |
| 1984 | W | Jacob Mazibuko | Decision | 6 |
| 1984 | W | Juan Alberto Ivalo | Decision | 10 |
| 1984 | W | Solomon Manotsi | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1984 | W | Michael Mogopudi | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | L | Mveleli Luzipho | Decision | 12 |
| 1983 | W | José Antonio Badilla | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1983 | W | Martin Nkokoto | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1983 | W | Kirk Morris | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1982 | W | Dexter Dlamini | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | W | Simon Moema | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1982 | W | Michael Mogopudi | KO/TKO | 5 |
Showing 60 of 66 recorded bouts, most recent first.
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jacob Matlala — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.77%
59″ reach on a 58″ frame
Compared against 36 light flyweight boxing fighters. Median 1.84%.
| Reach | 59″ (149.9 cm) | 3rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 58″ (147.3 cm) | 1st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Flyweight Boxing competed at 2: flyweight, light flyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 36 of 65 dated bouts | |
| Country | South Africa |
Record
Boxing record
53–13
68 bouts on record
Finish rate
49%
of wins ended inside the distance — light flyweight boxing median 53%, 45th percentile
The career, bout by bout
66 recorded bouts from 1980 to 2002. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
23y
1980–2002
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1989
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
66
65 with a date
Closest in build
light flyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Knockout CP Freshmart+1.64% 61″ reach · 44th pct
- Pornsawan Porpramook+1.91% 63″ reach · 50th pct
- Yudai Shigeoka+1.62% 64″ reach · 36th pct
- Daniel Valladares+1.62% 64″ reach · 36th pct
- José Argumedo+1.62% 64″ reach · 36th pct
- Ryoichi Taguchi+1.55% 67″ reach · 33rd pct
- Yuh Myung-woo+1.54% 65″ reach · 31st pct
- Shokichi Iwata+1.51% 66″ reach · 25th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jacob Matlala's record?
- 53–13–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 66 bouts individually.
- How many of Jacob Matlala's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 66. 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 103 light flyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Matlala sits inside.
103 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing36 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJacob Matlala went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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