Combat sports, measured
What a fighter's reach actually means
2,515 fighters, 25 divisions, every measurement in context.
Every fight database prints a fighter's reach as a bare number. 2,515 of them here are placed in their own division's distribution instead, so you can see whether 74″ of reach is remarkable or routine for the weight.
Divisions
- Heavyweight Boxing 3.99% median reach advantage · 594 fighters
- Heavyweight MMA 3.29% median reach advantage · 319 fighters
- Welterweight Boxing 2.83% median reach advantage · 299 fighters
- Lightweight MMA 2.83% median reach advantage · 297 fighters
- Welterweight MMA 2.79% median reach advantage · 297 fighters
- Lightweight Boxing 3% median reach advantage · 264 fighters
- Middleweight Boxing 2.83% median reach advantage · 264 fighters
- Featherweight Boxing 3% median reach advantage · 243 fighters
Fought in more than one sport
Boxing, kickboxing and MMA records sit in separate databases everywhere else. These fighters have all of theirs on one page.
How this works
Reach advantage is how much longer a fighter's arms are than their body is tall: (reach − height) ÷ height. Expressed as a percentage it compares directly across weights, so a flyweight and a heavyweight can be read on the same scale. Every figure comes from the fighter's own English Wikipedia infobox; the percentiles are computed here.