Heavyweight Boxing · 1960s
Floyd Patterson
71″ reach · -1.48% reach advantage · 3rd percentile
Floyd Patterson has a reach of 71″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of -1.48%, which is unusually short for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 3rd percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-1.48%
71″ reach on a 72″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 5th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (183 cm) | 23rd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1960s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
55–8
64 bouts recorded
Finish rate
73%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 60th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 40 | 73% |
| By decision | 15 | 27% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Tony Bellew -1.31% 74″ reach · 5th pct
- Siarhei Liakhovich -2.07% 74.4″ reach · 3rd pct
- Ingemar Johansson -2.73% 70.1″ reach · 2nd pct
- James J. Corbett 0% 73″ reach · 6th pct
- Jack Sharkey 0% 72″ reach · 6th pct
- Nikolai Valuev 0% 83.9″ reach · 6th pct
- Ivan Dychko 0% 81.1″ reach · 6th pct
- David Tua 0% 70.1″ reach · 6th 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: Floyd Patterson on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-16. Percentiles computed here.