Division profile
Light Heavyweight Boxing
What light heavyweight Boxing fighters actually measure — 209 of them, from Wikipedia's own infobox data.
Across the 209 light heavyweight Boxing fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 2.79% — a median reach of 73″ on a median height of 71.8″. 77% fight orthodox.
The division's shape
Median reach
73″
185.4 cm
Median height
71.8″
182.45 cm
Median reach advantage
2.79%
of body height
Median finish rate
59%
of wins inside the distance
Stance
- orthodox77%
- southpaw23%
By era
- 1910s2
- 1920s3
- 1930s4
- 1940s5
- 1950s1
- 1960s3
- 1970s1
- 1980s9
- 1990s16
- 2000s20
- 2010s27
- 2020s5
Longest reach for the frame
| # | Fighter | Reach | Height | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar Ray Leonard | 74″ | 70″ | +5.74% |
| 2 | Artur Beterbiev | 73″ | 71″ | +2.83% |
| 3 | Slobodan Kačar | 74″ | 72″ | +2.79% |
| 4 | Mikkel Kessler | 74″ | 72.8″ | +1.62% |
| 5 | Joe Calzaghe | 73″ | 72″ | +1.37% |
| 6 | Dmitry Bivol | 72″ | 72″ | 0% |
| 7 | Andre Ward | 71″ | 72″ | -1.42% |
| 8 | Jake LaMotta | 67″ | 68″ | -1.45% |
| 9 | Bernard Hopkins | 71″ | 73″ | -2.75% |
How this is worked out
- Every light heavyweight Boxing fighter in the dataset with both a reach and a height recorded.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage.
- Medians, not means — one 7-foot outlier should not move the division's typical figure.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026