José Santa Cruz
74″ reach · +5.74% reach advantage · 84th percentile
28–5
José Santa Cruz has a reach of 74″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +5.74%, long for lightweight boxing and the 84th percentile of the 120 compared here.
SOURCE·José Santa Cruz (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 120 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| undated | L | Zab Judah | — | — |
| undated | W | Anthony Mora | — | — |
| undated | W | Sergio Macias | — | — |
| undated | L | Antonio Pitalúa | — | — |
| undated | W | Miguel Angel Munguia | — | — |
| undated | L | Joel Casamayor | — | — |
| undated | W | Dairo Esalas | — | — |
| undated | W | Luis Arceo | — | — |
| undated | L | David Díaz | — | — |
| undated | W | Chikashi Inada | — | — |
| undated | W | Edner Cherry | — | — |
| undated | W | Michael Lozada | — | — |
| undated | L | Fernando Trejo | — | — |
| undated | W | Ernesto Zavala | — | — |
| undated | W | Justin Juuko | — | — |
| undated | W | Lamar Murphy | — | — |
| undated | W | Noel Panescoro | — | — |
| undated | W | James Crayton | — | — |
| undated | W | Arturo Morua | — | — |
| undated | W | Roy Delgado | — | — |
| undated | W | Leobardo Roman | — | — |
| undated | W | Alfonso Garcia | — | — |
| undated | W | Rogelio Castañeda Jr. | — | — |
| undated | W | Sergio Soto | — | — |
| undated | W | Jaime Ocegueda | — | — |
| undated | W | Justo Almazan | — | — |
| undated | W | Justo Sanchez | — | — |
| undated | W | Terry Evans | — | — |
| undated | W | Adam Gonzalez | — | — |
| undated | W | Mark Burse | — | — |
| undated | W | Carlos Alvarado | — | — |
| undated | W | Penpak Chokchai | — | — |
5 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·José Santa Cruz (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.74%
74″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 93rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 90th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | not established — fewer than three of this record's bouts carry a date | |
| Country | Mexico |
Record
Boxing record
28–5
33 bouts on record
Finish rate
61%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 65th percentile
Closest in build
lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Carlos Balderas+5.71% 72.8″ reach · 83rd pct
- Raymond Muratalla+5.91% 72″ reach · 85th pct
- O'Shaquie Foster+5.91% 72″ reach · 85th pct
- Miguel Acosta+5.93% 71″ reach · 87th pct
- Orzubek Nazarov Орзубек Пулетович Назаров+5.93% 71″ reach · 87th pct
- Juan Polo Pérez+6.06% 68.9″ reach · 88th pct
- Marco Antonio Barrera+6.09% 70″ reach · 89th pct
- Jorge Páez+6.18% 69″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is José Santa Cruz's record?
- 28–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 33 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.