Gene Fullmer
69″ reach · +3% reach advantage · 60th percentile
Gene Fullmer has a reach of 69″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +3%, above average for middleweight boxing and the 60th percentile of the 123 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3%
69″ reach on a 67″ frame
Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 10th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 5th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Middleweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1950s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
55–6
64 bouts on record
Finish rate
44%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 23rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
59 recorded bouts from 1951 to 1963. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
1951–1963
Longest unbeaten run
24
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1951
13 bouts
Recorded bouts
59
58 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | L | Dick Tiger | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1962 | L | Dick Tiger | Decision | 15 |
| 1961 | W | Benny Paret | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1961 | W | Florentino Fernández | Decision | 15 |
| 1961 | W | Sugar Ray Robinson | Decision | 15 |
| 1960 | D | Sugar Ray Robinson | Decision | 15 |
| 1960 | W | Carmen Basilio | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1960 | D | Joey Giardello | Draw | 15 |
| 1959 | W | Ellsworth Webb | Decision | 15 |
| 1959 | W | Carmen Basilio | KO/TKO | 14 |
| 1959 | W | Wilf Greaves | Decision | 10 |
| 1959 | W | Milo Savage | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Joe Miceli | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1958 | W | Ellsworth Webb | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Jim Hegerle | Decision | 10 |
| 1958 | W | Milo Savage | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Neal Rivers | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Chico Vejar | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | W | Ralph 'Tiger' Jones | Decision | 10 |
| 1957 | L | Sugar Ray Robinson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1957 | W | Wilf Greaves | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Moses Ward | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1956 | W | Charles Humez | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Ralph 'Tiger' Jones | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Gil Turner | Decision | 10 |
| 1956 | W | Rocky Castellani | — | 10 |
| 1955 | L | Eduardo Lausse | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | L | Bobby Boyd | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Al Andrews | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Del Flanagan | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Gil Turner | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Govan Small | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Paul Pender | Decision | 10 |
| 1955 | W | Marcel Assire | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | W | Peter Müller | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | W | Jackie LaBua | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | W | Dick Wolfe | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1954 | W | Reno Abellira | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | W | Govan Small | Decision | 10 |
| 1954 | W | Rio Rico | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1954 | W | Andy Anderson | — | 7 |
| 1954 | W | Charley Cato | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1954 | W | Kid Leon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1952 | W | Armando Cotero | — | 6 |
| 1952 | W | Mickey Rhodes | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1951 | W | Baby Ray | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1951 | W | Rudy Zadell | — | 6 |
| 1951 | W | Gary Hanley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1951 | W | Garth Panther | — | 10 |
| 1951 | W | Sam Healy | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1951 | W | Charley Cato | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1951 | W | Buddy Sloan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1951 | W | Carlos Martinez | — | 1 |
| 1951 | W | Lamar Peterson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1951 | W | Eddie Duffy | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1951 | W | Gary Carr | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1951 | W | Andy Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1951 | W | Glen Peck | — | 1 |
| — | ? | Opponent | — | — |
11 of these opponents have their own page here.
Closest in build
middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Arthur King+3% 69″ reach · 60th pct
- Verno Phillips+3% 69″ reach · 60th pct
- Vito Antuofermo+3% 69″ reach · 60th pct
- Tony Zale+3% 69″ reach · 60th pct
- Don Fullmer+2.95% 70″ reach · 58th pct
- Rodrigo Valdez+2.95% 70″ reach · 58th pct
- Mike O'Dowd+2.95% 70″ reach · 58th pct
- Henry Armstrong+3.09% 67″ reach · 64th pct
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
Source: Gene Fullmer on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-30. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.