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Frank Erne

68″ reach · +2.25% reach advantage · 40th percentile

Frank Erne has a reach of 68″ against a height of 66.5″ — a reach advantage of +2.25%, short for lightweight boxing and the 40th percentile of the 120 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.25%

68″ reach on a 66.5″ frame

Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.

-2.3%lightweight boxing reach advantage8.9%
Measurements
Reach68″ (172.7 cm)27th pct
Height66.5″ (168.9 cm)41st pct
StanceOrthodox
DivisionLightweight Boxing
competed at 2: featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last
Peak era1900s
CountrySwitzerland

Record

Boxing record

31–6

53 bouts on record

Finish rate

48%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 44th percentile

By knockout: 15 (48%)By decision: 16 (52%)
  • By knockout 48%
  • By decision 52%

The career, bout by bout

49 recorded bouts from 1892 to 1908. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

1900 win vs John Roy (1892)win vs James McCarthy (1892)win vs Skip Krieger (1893)draw vs Joe Diebold (1893)draw vs Solly Smith (1894)win vs Alec Sloan (1894)draw vs George Siddons (1894)win vs Dan Maloney (1894)win vs Pat Schultz (1894)draw vs Tommy Dixon (1894)win vs Hymie Goldstein (1894)win vs Fred Warner (1894)win vs Walter Campbell (1894)draw vs Tommy Kennedy (1894)draw vs John L Sullivan (1894)draw vs Young Griffo (1895)draw vs George Dixon (1895)win vs Jack Skelly (1895)win vs Joe Craig (1895)win vs Pat Perry (1895)win vs Joe Leonard (1895)win vs George Dixon (1896)draw vs Jack Downey (1896)win vs Larry Burns (1896)draw vs Jack Downey (1897)draw vs Jim Popp (1897)win vs Larry Becker (1897)win vs Joe Hopkins (1897)loss vs George Dixon (1897)loss vs Martin Flaherty (1897)draw vs George Kid Lavigne (1898)win vs Harry Lemons (1898)draw vs New York Jack O'Brien (1899)win vs George Kid Lavigne (1899)win vs George "Elbows" McFadden (1899)win vs Dal Hawkins (1899)draw vs Tom Couhig (1900)loss vs Terry McGovern (1900)win vs Joe Gans (1900)win vs Chicago Jack Daly (1900)loss vs Rube Ferns (1901)loss vs Jimmy Britt (1902)win vs Jim Maloney (1902)loss vs Joe Gans (1902)win vs Gus Gardner (1902)win vs Curley Supples (1902)win vs Warren Zurbrick (1903)win vs Curly Watson (1908)
winlossdraw / NC1892–1908

Career span

17y

1892–1908

Longest unbeaten run

17

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1894

11 bouts

Recorded bouts

49

48 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
1908 W Curly Watson Decision10
1903 W Warren Zurbrick DQ10
1902 L Jimmy Britt KO/TKO7
1902 W Jim Maloney KO/TKO7
1902 L Joe Gans KO/TKO1
1902 W Gus Gardner Decision6
1902 W Curley Supples KO/TKO6
1901 L Rube Ferns KO/TKO9
1900 D Tom Couhig Decision6
1900 L Terry McGovern KO/TKO3
1900 W Joe Gans KO/TKO12
1900 W Chicago Jack Daly Decision6
1899 D New York Jack O'Brien Decision25
1899 W George Kid Lavigne Decision20
1899 W George "Elbows" McFadden Decision25
1899 W Dal Hawkins KO/TKO7
1898 D George Kid Lavigne Decision20
1898 W Harry Lemons Decision20
1897 D Jack Downey Decision20
1897 D Jim Popp Decision20
1897 W Larry Becker KO/TKO5
1897 W Joe Hopkins KO/TKO19
1897 L George Dixon Decision25
1897 L Martin Flaherty Decision20
1896 W George Dixon Decision20
1896 D Jack Downey Decision12
1896 W Larry Burns KO/TKO5
1895 D Young Griffo Decision4
1895 D George Dixon Decision10
1895 W Jack Skelly KO/TKO9
1895 W Joe Craig KO/TKO3
1895 W Pat Perry Decision4
1895 W Joe Leonard KO/TKO2
1894 D Solly Smith Decision10
1894 W Alec Sloan Decision4
1894 D George Siddons Decision10
1894 W Dan Maloney KO/TKO1
1894 W Pat Schultz Decision4
1894 D Tommy Dixon Decision4
1894 W Hymie Goldstein Decision4
1894 W Fred Warner Decision4
1894 W Walter Campbell KO/TKO3
1894 D Tommy Kennedy Decision4
1894 D John L Sullivan Decision2
1893 W Skip Krieger Decision3
1893 D Joe Diebold Decision23
1892 W John Roy KO/TKO4
1892 W James McCarthy Decision6
? Opponent

11 of these opponents have their own page here.

How this is worked out

  1. Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 120 lightweight 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: Frank Erne on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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