Mike Tyson
71″ reach · +1.41% reach advantage · 26th percentile
50–7
Mike Tyson has a reach of 71″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +1.41%, short for heavyweight boxing and the 26th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Mike Tyson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-31
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 2026-07-31. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | L | Jake Paul | Decision | 8 |
| 2020 | D | Roy Jones Jr. | Draw | 8 |
| 2006 | ? | Corey Sanders | — | 4 |
| 2005 | L | Kevin McBride | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2004 | L | Danny Williams | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2003 | W | Clifford Etienne | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Lennox Lewis | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2001 | W | Brian Nielsen | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2000 | N | Andrew Golota | — | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Lou Savarese | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Julius Francis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | ? | Orlin Norris | — | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Francois Botha | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1997 | L | Evander Holyfield | DQ | 3 |
| 1996 | L | Evander Holyfield | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1996 | W | Bruce Seldon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Frank Bruno | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1995 | W | Buster Mathis Jr. | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1995 | W | Peter McNeeley | — | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Donovan Ruddock | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Alex Stewart | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Henry Tillman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | L | Buster Douglas | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1989 | W | Carl Williams | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Frank Bruno | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1988 | W | Michael Spinks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1988 | W | Tony Tubbs | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Larry Holmes | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1987 | W | Tyrell Biggs | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1987 | W | Tony Tucker | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | W | Pinklon Thomas | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1987 | W | James Smith | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | ? | James Tillis | — | 4 |
| 1986 | W | Trevor Berbick | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1986 | W | Alfonso Ratliff | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1986 | W | José Ribalta | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Marvis Frazier | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | W | Lorenzo Boyd | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1986 | W | William Hosea | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | W | Reggie Gross | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | W | Mitch Green | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | James Tillis | — | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Steve Zouski | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1986 | W | Jesse Ferguson | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1986 | W | Mike Jameson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1986 | W | David Jaco | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | ? | Anthony Davis | — | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Mark Young | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Sammy Scaff | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Conroy Nelson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1985 | W | Eddie Richardson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Sterling Benjamin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Robert Colay | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Donnie Long | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Michael Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Lorenzo Canady | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Larry Sims | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1985 | W | John Alderson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1985 | W | Ricardo Spain | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Don Halpin | — | 4 |
Showing 60 of 62 recorded bouts, most recent first.
43 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Mike Tyson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-31
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.41%
71″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 5th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 4th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 39 of 62 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
50–7
59 bouts on record
Finish rate
88%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 90th percentile
The career, bout by bout
62 recorded bouts from 1985 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
40y
1985–2024
Longest unbeaten run
39
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1985
15 bouts
Recorded bouts
62
62 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Jose Roman+1.41% 71″ reach · 26th pct
- Alen Babić+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
- Amir Mansour+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
- Iran Barkley+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
- Chris Byrd+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
- Orlin Norris+1.43% 70″ reach · 27th pct
- Yvon Durelle+1.43% 70″ reach · 27th pct
- Stanley Ketchel+1.43% 70″ reach · 27th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Mike Tyson's record?
- 50–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 62 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 Tyson sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing39 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Lou Savarese vs Mike TysonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2000 Longest unbeaten runsMike Tyson went 39 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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