Nigel Benn
73″ reach · +5.76% reach advantage · 87th percentile
42–5–1
Nigel Benn has a reach of 73″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of +5.76%, long for super middleweight boxing and the 87th percentile of the 75 compared here.
SOURCE·Nigel Benn — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-27
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 2026-07-27. 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 75 super middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | L | Steve Collins | — | 6 |
| 1996 | L | Thulani Malinga | Decision | 12 |
| 1995 | W | Danny Perez | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1995 | W | Vincenzo Nardiello | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Gerald McClellan | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1994 | W | Juan Carlos Giménez Ferreyra | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Henry Wharton | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | D | Chris Eubank | Draw | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Lou Gent | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Mauro Galvano | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Nicky Piper | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1992 | W | Mauro Galvano | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1992 | W | Thulani Malinga | — | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Dan Sherry | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1991 | W | Hector Abel Lescano | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1991 | W | Lenzie Morgan | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Kid Milo | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1991 | W | Robbie Sims | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1990 | L | Chris Eubank | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1990 | W | Iran Barkley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Doug DeWitt | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1990 | W | Sanderline Williams | — | 10 |
| 1989 | W | Jose Quinones | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Jorge Amparo | — | 10 |
| 1989 | L | Michael Watson | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1989 | W | Mbayo Wa Mbayo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Michael Chilambe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1988 | W | David Noel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1988 | W | Anthony Logan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Tim Williams | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Abdul Umaru Sanda | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Darren Hobson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1988 | W | Greg Taylor | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Byron Prince | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1988 | W | Fermin Chirino | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | W | Reggie Miller | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1987 | W | Ian Chantler | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Ronnie Yoe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Russell Barker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Winston Burnett | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1987 | W | Eddie Smith | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | W | Leon Morris | — | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Reginald Marks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Rob Nieuwenhuizen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Kevin Roper | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Graeme Ahmed | — | 2 |
15 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Nigel Benn — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-27
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.76%
73″ reach on a 69″ frame
Compared against 75 super middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 52nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 19th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Super Middleweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, super middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 24 of 46 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
Boxing record
42–5
48 bouts on record
Finish rate
83%
of wins ended inside the distance — super middleweight boxing median 61%, 91st percentile
The career, bout by bout
46 recorded bouts from 1987 to 1996. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
1987–1996
Longest unbeaten run
21
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1987
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
46
46 with a date
Closest in build
super middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Julio César Green+5.74% 74″ reach · 83rd pct
- Vincent Feigenbutz+5.74% 74″ reach · 83rd pct
- Fernando Vargas+5.74% 74″ reach · 83rd pct
- Marco Antonio Peribán+5.82% 78.7″ reach · 88th pct
- Franchón Crews-Dezurn+5.91% 72″ reach · 89th pct
- Lindell Holmes+5.91% 72″ reach · 89th pct
- Christian M'billi+5.91% 72″ reach · 89th pct
- Armand Krajnc+5.52% 75.2″ reach · 80th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Nigel Benn's record?
- 42–5–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 46 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 164 super middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Benn sits inside.
164 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing24 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsNigel Benn went 21 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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