Heavyweight Boxing · 1980s
Buster Douglas
83″ reach · +10.66% reach advantage · 96th percentile
Buster Douglas has a reach of 83″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +10.66%, which is exceptional for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 96th percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+10.66%
83″ reach on a 75″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 83″ (210.8 cm) | 91st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 54th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1980s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
38–6
46 bouts recorded
Finish rate
66%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 45th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 25 | 66% |
| By decision | 13 | 34% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Hasim Rahman +10.8% 82″ reach · 96th pct
- Primo Carnera +10.38% 85″ reach · 95th pct
- Audley Harrison +11.66% 86″ reach · 97th pct
- Max Baer Sr. +9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Frank Bruno +9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Lennox Lewis +9.1% 84″ reach · 90th pct
- Tommy Burns +8.93% 73″ reach · 89th pct
- Larry Holmes +7.98% 81″ reach · 85th pct
How this is worked out
- Reach and height are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox and normalised to centimetres.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height, expressed as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- The percentile is that figure's rank among the 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters in this dataset — not among everyone who has ever fought.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Buster Douglas on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-27. Percentiles computed here.