Dave Shade

Dave Shade has a reach of 71″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +4.4%, long for welterweight boxing and the 75th percentile of the 130 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+4.4%

71″ reach on a 68″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 130 welterweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-2.9%welterweight boxing reach advantage9.4%

Measurements
Reach	71″ (180.3 cm)	68th pct
Height	68″ (172.7 cm)	39th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Welterweight Boxing
Peak era	1920s
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

156–29

251 bouts on record

Finish rate

11%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight boxing median 54%, 3rd percentile

By knockout 11%
By decision 89%

The career, bout by bout

203 recorded bouts from 1918 to 1935. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1918–1935

Career span

18y

1918–1935

Longest unbeaten run

16

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1920

23 bouts

Recorded bouts

203

202 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1935	W	Paulie Sykes	Decision	10
1935	L	Johnny Rossi	Decision	10
1935	L	Al Gainer	Decision	10
1935	W	Bob Turner	Decision	10
1934	W	Joe Kaminski	Decision	10
1934	D	Al Rossi	Decision	10
1934	L	Fred Henneberry	Decision	15
1934	W	Ambrose Palmer	DQ	6
1933	W	Fred Henneberry	Decision	15
1933	L	Ambrose Palmer	Decision	15
1933	D	Henry Firpo	Decision	10
1933	W	Jack Gibbs	Decision	10
1933	D	Rosy Baker	Decision	10
1932	W	Sammy Slaughter	Decision	10
1932	W	Norman Conrad	Decision	10
1932	W	Charley Horn	Decision	6
1932	W	Ray Tramblie	Decision	10
1932	W	Jack Kilbourne	Decision	10
1932	W	Angel Clivilles	Decision	10
1932	W	Henry Firpo	Decision	10
1932	W	Joey LaGrey	Decision	10
1931	W	Al Gainer	Decision	10
1931	W	Ben Jeby	Decision	12
1931	W	Willie Oster	Decision	10
1931	W	Leo Larrivee	Decision	10
1931	L	Tiger Thomas	Decision	10
1931	W	Joe Anderson	KO/TKO	10
1930	D	Jack Hood	Decision	12
1930	L	Len Harvey	Decision	15
1930	W	Joe Anderson	Decision	10
1930	W	Ace Hudkins	Decision	10
1930	N	Mike Hector	—	9
1930	W	Jack Kilbourne	Decision	10
1930	W	Young George Dixon	Decision	6
1930	W	Young Johnny Burns	Decision	10
1930	W	Cowboy Jack Willis	Decision	10
1930	W	Joe Roche	Decision	10
1929	W	Dick Evans	KO/TKO	2
1929	W	Joe Roche	Decision	10
1929	W	Young George Dixon	Decision	10
1929	W	Rene De Vos	Decision	10
1929	W	Leo Mitchell	Decision	8
1929	D	Esteban Gallard	Decision	12
1929	W	Manuel K.O. Brissett	Decision	12
1928	L	Ray Still	DQ	7
1928	W	Arthur Flynn	Decision	10
1928	W	Bobby Williams	KO/TKO	3
1928	L	Rene De Vos	Decision	10
1928	W	Cowboy Jack Willis	Decision	10
1928	W	Joe Anderson	Decision	10
1928	W	Tiger Johnny Cline	Decision	10
1928	W	Bert Colima	KO/TKO	7
1928	W	George Courtney	Decision	10
1928	W	Imey Garfinkle	—	10
1928	W	Del Fontaine	Decision	10
1928	W	Charley Long	Decision	10
1928	W	Al Webster	Decision	10
1927	D	Jack McVey	Decision	12
1927	W	Al Webster	Decision	10
1927	W	Warnie Smith	Decision	10

Showing the 60 most recent of 203 recorded bouts.

14 of these opponents have their own page here.

Closest in build

welterweight 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 130 welterweight 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: Dave Shade on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.