Middleweight Boxing · 1960s
Emile Griffith
72″ reach · +8.29% reach advantage · 97th percentile
Emile Griffith has a reach of 72″ against a height of 66.5″ — a reach advantage of +8.29%, which is exceptional for a middleweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 97th percentile of the 264 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+8.29%
72″ reach on a 66.5″ frame
Against 264 middleweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 2.83%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 49th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66.5″ (168.9 cm) | 3rd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Middleweight Boxing competed at 3: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1960s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
85–24
112 bouts recorded
Finish rate
27%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 60%, 7th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 23 | 27% |
| By decision | 62 | 73% |
Closest in build
Middleweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Marvelous Marvin Hagler +7.14% 75″ reach · 93rd pct
- Carlos Monzón +6.63% 76″ reach · 90th pct
- Rubin Carter +5.72% 72″ reach · 82nd pct
- Marcel Cerdan +4.59% 69″ reach · 79th pct
- Ryōta Murata +4.16% 75″ reach · 70th pct
- Amir Khan +3.62% 71″ reach · 67th pct
- Henry Armstrong +3.09% 67″ reach · 65th pct
- Oscar De La Hoya +2.83% 73″ reach · 47th 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 264 middleweight Boxing fighters in this dataset — not among everyone who has ever fought.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Emile Griffith on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-20. Percentiles computed here.