Gorilla Jones

Gorilla Jones has a reach of 75″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of +8.67%, exceptional for middleweight boxing and the 98th percentile of the 123 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+8.67%

75″ reach on a 69″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 123 middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.83%.

-3.8%middleweight boxing reach advantage8.7%

Measurements
Reach	75″ (190.5 cm)	89th pct
Height	69″ (175.3 cm)	29th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Middleweight Boxing
Peak era	1930s
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

109–28

172 bouts on record

Finish rate

61%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight boxing median 60%, 52nd percentile

By knockout 61%
By decision 39%

The career, bout by bout

152 recorded bouts from 1924 to 1940. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1924–1940

Career span

17y

1924–1940

Longest unbeaten run

19

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1928

24 bouts

Recorded bouts

152

150 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1940	L	Vern Earling	Decision	10
1939	W	Angelo Puglisi	Decision	10
1938	L	Alabama Kid	Decision	10
1938	L	Eddie Babe Risko	Decision	10
1938	D	King Wyatt	Decision	10
1938	W	Jack Moran	Decision	10
1938	W	Johnny Davis	KO/TKO	8
1938	W	Pedro Carsonia	KO/TKO	2
1938	W	Frankie Hughes	Decision	10
1937	W	Bob Turner	Decision	10
1937	L	Alabama Kid	Decision	10
1937	W	Andy Miller	—	8
1937	W	Vernon Nelson	KO/TKO	3
1937	W	Tommy Freeman	Decision	10
1937	W	Frankie Misko	KO/TKO	5
1937	D	Frank Battaglia	Decision	10
1937	L	Freddie Steele	Decision	10
1936	W	Mickey Bottone	KO/TKO	1
1936	D	Art Taylor	Decision	10
1936	W	Tait Littman	KO/TKO	10
1935	L	Freddie Steele	Decision	10
1934	L	Oscar Rankins	Decision	10
1934	L	Emilio Martinez	Decision	10
1934	D	Freddie Steele	Decision	10
1934	L	Frank R. Weimer	Decision	10
1934	W	Tony Poloni	Decision	10
1933	W	Frankie Remus	KO/TKO	6
1933	W	Eddie Murdock	KO/TKO	10
1933	W	Lou Bertman	KO/TKO	2
1933	W	Mike Payan	Decision	10
1933	W	Billy Papke Jr	KO/TKO	8
1933	W	Johnny Romero	KO/TKO	3
1933	W	Manuel Victoria	KO/TKO	7
1933	D	Hal Hoxwood	Decision	10
1933	D	Vearl Whitehead	Decision	10
1933	W	Wesley Ketchell	Decision	10
1933	W	Babe Marino	KO/TKO	10
1933	N	Ben Jeby	—	6
1933	W	Willie Oster	KO/TKO	3
1933	W	Rosy Baker	Decision	10
1933	W	Sammy Slaughter	KO/TKO	7
1933	W	Young Stuhley	KO/TKO	4
1932	D	Tommy Freeman	Decision	10
1932	W	Willie Oster	—	10
1932	W	Jackie Purvis	KO/TKO	3
1932	W	Johnny Peppe	Decision	8
1932	W	Kid Leonard	—	10
1932	W	Jack December	KO/TKO	2
1932	L	Marcel Thil	DQ	11
1932	W	Young Terry	Decision	12
1932	W	Bud Saltis	Decision	10
1932	W	Chuck Burns	KO/TKO	3
1932	L	Frankie O'Brien	DQ	8
1932	W	Oddone Piazza	KO/TKO	6
1931	W	Henry Firpo	Decision	10
1931	W	Frankie O'Brien	Decision	10
1931	W	George Nichols	Decision	10
1931	W	Johnny Roberts	KO/TKO	3
1931	W	Clyde Chastain	KO/TKO	6
1931	W	Tiger Thomas	Decision	10

Showing the 60 most recent of 152 recorded bouts.

15 of these opponents have their own page here.

Closest in build

middleweight 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 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

Full methodology →

Source: Gorilla Jones on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-08. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.