Buster Drayton

Buster Drayton has a reach of 74″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of +4.27%, above average for middleweight boxing and the 72nd percentile of the 123 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+4.27%

74″ reach on a 71″ frame

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Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-3.8%middleweight boxing reach advantage8.7%

Measurements
Reach	74″ (188 cm)	77th pct
Height	71″ (180.3 cm)	68th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing competed at 2: light middleweight, middleweight — compared here against the last
Peak era	1980s
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

40–15

57 bouts on record

Finish rate

70%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 71st percentile

By knockout 70%
By decision 30%

The career, bout by bout

57 recorded bouts from 1978 to 1995. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1978–1995

Career span

18y

1978–1995

Longest unbeaten run

8

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1983

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

57

57 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1995	L	Derrick Rolon	Decision	12
1994	W	Jose Vera	Decision	6
1993	W	Robert Harris	KO/TKO	4
1992	W	Gary Smith	KO/TKO	3
1992	W	Eric Mustafa Cole	KO/TKO	8
1992	W	Jose Vera	Decision	8
1991	L	Eric Holland	Decision	10
1991	W	Gary Jones	Decision	8
1989	L	Brinatty Maquilon	KO/TKO	8
1989	W	Darryl Fromm	Decision	10
1989	L	Terry Norris	Decision	12
1988	L	Julian Jackson	KO/TKO	3
1987	W	Leroy Jones	KO/TKO	4
1987	L	Matthew Hilton	Decision	15
1987	W	Said Skouma	KO/TKO	10
1987	W	Juan Alonso Villa	KO/TKO	2
1986	W	Davey Moore	KO/TKO	10
1986	W	Benito Fernandez	KO/TKO	6
1986	W	Carlos Santos	Decision	15
1986	W	Sam Leonard	KO/TKO	5
1986	W	Bruce Jackson	KO/TKO	5
1985	W	John Jarvis	KO/TKO	6
1985	W	Dennis Johnson	KO/TKO	10
1985	L	James Kinchen	Decision	10
1985	W	Thomas Smith	Decision	10
1984	W	Tony Harrison	KO/TKO	10
1984	W	Terry Holmes	KO/TKO	1
1984	W	Gary Coates	KO/TKO	4
1984	W	Mark Kaylor	KO/TKO	7
1984	W	Jimmy Cable	KO/TKO	1
1984	W	Gregory Clark	KO/TKO	2
1983	L	Fred Hutchings	Decision	10
1983	L	Mario Maldonado	Decision	10
1983	W	Patricio Diaz	Decision	10
1983	W	Clinton Jackson	KO/TKO	2
1983	W	David Plowden	Decision	8
1983	L	Bushy Bester	Decision	10
1982	L	Sumbu Kalambay	Decision	8
1982	W	Bruce Johnson	KO/TKO	9
1982	W	Duane Thomas	KO/TKO	7
1982	L	Lindell Holmes	Decision	10
1982	W	Dan Snyder	Decision	8
1981	W	DC Walker	KO/TKO	2
1981	W	Tyrone Demby	Decision	6
1981	L	Mario Maldonado	Decision	8
1981	L	Mark Holmes	Decision	6
1981	W	Dan Snyder	KO/TKO	4
1980	L	Kevin Perry	KO/TKO	3
1980	N	Curtis Taylor	—	8
1980	W	Bill Harrington	KO/TKO	2
1979	W	Clifford Smith	KO/TKO	1
1979	W	Julius Spell	Decision	4
1979	W	Jesse Carter	KO/TKO	6
1979	W	Bob Saxton	KO/TKO	1
1979	W	Frank Moore	KO/TKO	3
1978	W	Jesse Carter	Decision	6
1978	D	Charles Carey	Decision	4

12 of these opponents have their own page here.

Closest in build

middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

How this is worked out

Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 123 middleweight boxing fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Full methodology →

Source: Buster Drayton on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.