Sugar Ray Leonard
74″ reach · +5.74% reach advantage · 84th percentile
36–3–1
Sugar Ray Leonard has a reach of 74″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +5.74%, long for light heavyweight boxing and the 84th percentile of the 98 compared here.
SOURCE·Sugar Ray Leonard — 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 98 light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | L | Héctor Camacho | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1991 | L | Terry Norris | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Roberto Durán | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | D | Thomas Hearns | Draw | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Donny Lalonde | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1987 | W | Marvin Hagler | — | 12 |
| 1984 | W | Kevin Howard | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1982 | W | Bruce Finch | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1981 | W | Thomas Hearns | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1981 | W | Ayub Kalule | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1981 | W | Larry Bonds | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1980 | W | Roberto Durán | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1980 | W | Dave Boy Green | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1979 | W | Wilfred Benítez | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1979 | W | Andy Price | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1979 | W | Pete Ranzany | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1979 | W | Tony Chiaverini | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1979 | W | Marcos Geraldo | Decision | 10 |
| 1979 | W | Adolfo Viruet | Decision | 10 |
| 1979 | W | Daniel Aldo Gonzalez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1979 | W | Fernand Marcotte | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1979 | W | Johnny Gant | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1978 | W | Armando Muniz | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1978 | W | Bernardo Prada | Decision | 10 |
| 1978 | W | Randy Shields | Decision | 10 |
| 1978 | W | Floyd Mayweather Sr. | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1978 | W | Dicky Eklund | Decision | 10 |
| 1978 | W | Rafael Rodriguez | Decision | 10 |
| 1978 | W | Randy Milton | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1978 | W | Bobby Haymon | — | 3 |
| 1978 | W | Javier Muniz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1978 | W | Art McKnight | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1978 | W | Rocky Ramon | Decision | 8 |
| 1977 | W | Hector Diaz | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1977 | W | Augustin Estrada | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1977 | W | Frank Santore | — | 5 |
| 1977 | W | Vinnie DeBarros | — | 3 |
| 1977 | W | Willie Rodriguez | Decision | 6 |
| 1977 | W | Luis Vega | — | 6 |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Sugar Ray Leonard — 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 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 56th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 16th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 5: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 26 of 39 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
36–3
40 bouts on record
Finish rate
69%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 74th percentile
The career, bout by bout
39 recorded bouts from 1977 to 1997. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
21y
1977–1997
Longest unbeaten run
36
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1978
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
39
39 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Kid Norfolk+5.74% 74″ reach · 84th pct
- Jeff Lacy+5.74% 74″ reach · 84th pct
- Tavoris Cloud+5.74% 74″ reach · 84th pct
- Eddie Brooker+5.76% 73″ reach · 88th pct
- Anaclet Wamba+5.79% 79.1″ reach · 89th pct
- Tiger Jack Fox+5.66% 75″ reach · 82nd pct
- Matthew Saad Muhammad+5.66% 75″ reach · 82nd pct
- Anton Christoforidis+5.91% 72″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Sugar Ray Leonard's record?
- 36–3–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 39 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 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Leonard sits inside.
212 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing26 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
115 FIGHTERS Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs Sugar Ray LeonardA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1987 Longest unbeaten runsSugar Ray Leonard went 36 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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