Mzonke Fana
70″ reach · +4.47% reach advantage · 69th percentile
38–13
Mzonke Fana has a reach of 70″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +4.47%, above average for lightweight boxing and the 69th percentile of the 120 compared here.
SOURCE·Mzonke Fana — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | L | Thompson Mokwana | Decision | 12 |
| 2017 | L | Howik Bebraham | Decision | 8 |
| 2016 | L | Emmanuel Tagoe | Decision | 12 |
| 2016 | L | Terry Flanagan | Decision | 12 |
| 2016 | W | Vusumzi Bokolo | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2015 | W | Xolani Mcotheli | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2015 | L | Hedi Slimani | Decision | 12 |
| 2015 | W | Sipho Taliwe | Decision | 12 |
| 2015 | W | Said Zungu | Decision | 10 |
| 2015 | L | Xolisani Ndongeni | Decision | 12 |
| 2015 | W | Koos Sibiya | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Themba Tshicila | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Edis Tatli | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Takalani Ndlovu | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | L | Paulus Moses | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2012 | L | Sipho Taliwe | Decision | 12 |
| 2012 | W | Vuyani Masondo | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2010 | W | Cassius Baloyi | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Jasper Seroka | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Victor Manon | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Cassius Baloyi | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Javier Osvaldo Alvarez | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2007 | W | Malcolm Klassen | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Roberto David Arrieta | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Jack Asis | Decision | 10 |
| 2005 | W | JR Sollano | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2005 | L | Marco Antonio Barrera | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Randy Suico | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | W | Cristian Sebastian Paz | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2003 | W | Elvis Makama | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | W | Yuriy Voronin | Decision | 10 |
| 2003 | W | László Bognár | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2003 | W | Khululekile Sibeko | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2002 | W | Eric Odumase | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2002 | W | Ali Funeka | Decision | 12 |
| 2001 | W | Patrick Malinga | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Wiseman Jim | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Irvin Buhlalu | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | L | Dean Pithie | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Sakhumzi Magxwalisa | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Matthews Zulu | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | L | Mkhuseli Kondile | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Madose Ngozi | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1996 | W | Vusumzi Saule | Decision | 6 |
| 1996 | W | Abram Mlandu | Decision | 6 |
| 1995 | W | Nkosana Tywakadi | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Luvuyo Mngambi | Decision | 6 |
| 1994 | W | Thamsanqa Majaja | Decision | 4 |
| 1994 | W | Nkosana Tywakadi | Decision | 4 |
| 1994 | W | Siyabulela Manikevane | Decision | 4 |
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Mzonke Fana — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.47%
70″ reach on a 67″ frame
Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 55th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 48th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing competed at 2: super featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 20 of 50 dated bouts | |
| Country | South Africa |
Record
Boxing record
38–13
51 bouts on record
Finish rate
42%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 33rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
50 recorded bouts from 1994 to 2017. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
24y
1994–2017
Longest unbeaten run
14
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2015
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
50
50 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Diego Magdaleno+4.47% 70″ reach · 69th pct
- Young Peter Jackson+4.47% 70″ reach · 69th pct
- Ikram Kerwat+4.47% 70″ reach · 69th pct
- Calvin Grove+4.47% 70″ reach · 69th pct
- Lakva Sim+4.47% 70″ reach · 69th pct
- Nihito Arakawa+4.4% 71″ reach · 67th pct
- Cornelius Boza-Edwards+4.4% 71″ reach · 67th pct
- Richard Commey+4.4% 71″ reach · 67th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Mzonke Fana's record?
- 38–13 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 50 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 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Fana sits inside.
270 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing20 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMzonke Fana went 14 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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