Heavyweight boxing · 1910s
Gunboat Smith
72″ reach · -2.71% reach advantage · 3rd percentile
Gunboat Smith has a reach of 72″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of -2.71%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 3rd percentile of the 317 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-2.71%
72″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 8th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1910s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
81–49
140 bouts on record
Finish rate
47%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 14th percentile
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Ingemar Johansson-2.73% 70.1″ reach · 2nd pct
- Victor Emilio Ramírez-2.77% 69″ reach · 2nd pct
- Siarhei Liakhovich-2.07% 74.4″ reach · 3rd pct
- Mihai Nistor-3.83% 69.3″ reach · 2nd pct
- Patrick Mailata-1.52% 76.8″ reach · 3rd pct
- Nathan Gorman-3.94% 73″ reach · 1st pct
- Floyd Patterson-1.48% 71″ reach · 3rd pct
- Rocky Sekorski-1.39% 70″ reach · 4th 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 317 heavyweight 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: Gunboat Smith on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-26. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.