Wladimir Klitschko
81.1″ reach · +4.04% reach advantage · 53rd percentile
64–5
Wladimir Klitschko has a reach of 81.1″ against a height of 78″ — a reach advantage of +4.04%, average for heavyweight boxing and the 53rd percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Wladimir Klitschko — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
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 2026-07-25. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | L | Anthony Joshua | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2015 | L | Tyson Fury | Decision | 12 |
| 2015 | W | Bryant Jennings | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Kubrat Pulev | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2014 | W | Alex Leapai | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2013 | W | Alexander Povetkin | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Francesco Pianeta | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2012 | W | Mariusz Wach | Decision | 12 |
| 2012 | W | Tony Thompson | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2012 | W | Jean-Marc Mormeck | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2011 | W | David Haye | Decision | 12 |
| 2010 | W | Samuel Peter | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2010 | W | Eddie Chambers | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Ruslan Chagaev | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2008 | W | Hasim Rahman | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2008 | W | Tony Thompson | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2008 | W | Sultan Ibragimov | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Lamon Brewster | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2007 | W | Ray Austin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Calvin Brock | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2006 | W | Chris Byrd | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2005 | W | Samuel Peter | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | W | Eliseo Castillo | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2004 | W | DaVarryl Williamson | — | 5 |
| 2004 | L | Lamon Brewster | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2003 | W | Danell Nicholson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2003 | W | Fabio Eduardo Moli | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Corrie Sanders | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Jameel McCline | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2002 | W | Ray Mercer | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Francois Botha | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2001 | W | Charles Shufford | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2001 | W | Derrick Jefferson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Chris Byrd | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Monte Barrett | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2000 | W | David Bostice | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Paea Wolfgramm | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Lajos Eros | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Phil Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Axel Schulz | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1999 | W | Joseph Chingangu | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1999 | W | Tony LaRosa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Everett Martin | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1999 | W | Zoran Vujicic | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Ross Puritty | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1998 | W | Donnell Wingfield | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Eli Dixon | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Steve Pannell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Carlos Monroe | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Najee Shaheed | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Cody Koch | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1998 | W | Everett Martin | — | 8 |
| 1998 | W | Marcus McIntyre | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Derrick Lampkins | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Ladislav Husarik | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Jerry Halstead | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Marcos González | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | James Pritchard | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Biko Botowamungu | DQ | 5 |
| 1997 | W | Gilberto Williamson | KO/TKO | 3 |
Showing 60 of 69 recorded bouts, most recent first.
39 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Wladimir Klitschko — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.04%
81.1″ reach on a 78″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 81.1″ (206 cm) | 81st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 78″ (198 cm) | 89th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 32 of 69 dated bouts | |
| Country | Ukraine |
Record
Boxing record
64–5
69 bouts on record
Finish rate
83%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 83rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
69 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2017. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
1996–2017
Longest unbeaten run
26
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1997
13 bouts
Recorded bouts
69
69 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Jesse Ferguson+4.04% 77″ reach · 53rd pct
- Crawford Grimsley+4.04% 77″ reach · 53rd pct
- Jermaine Franklin+4.04% 77″ reach · 53rd pct
- Calvin Brock+4.04% 77″ reach · 53rd pct
- Peter McNeeley+4.04% 77″ reach · 53rd pct
- Albert Sosnowski+4.04% 77″ reach · 53rd pct
- Bermane Stiverne+4.04% 77″ reach · 53rd pct
- Lamon Brewster+4.04% 77″ reach · 53rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Wladimir Klitschko's record?
- 64–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 69 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 Klitschko sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing32 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Eddie Chambers vs Wladimir KlitschkoA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2010 Longest unbeaten runsWladimir Klitschko went 26 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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