Heavyweight Boxing · 1950s
Ingemar Johansson
70.1″ reach · -2.73% reach advantage · 2nd percentile
Ingemar Johansson has a reach of 70.1″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of -2.73%, which is unusually short for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 2nd percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-2.73%
70.1″ reach on a 72″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 70.1″ (178 cm) | 4th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (183 cm) | 23rd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1950s | |
| Country | Sweden |
Record
Boxing record
26–2
28 bouts recorded
Finish rate
65%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 45th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 17 | 65% |
| By decision | 9 | 35% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Siarhei Liakhovich -2.07% 74.4″ reach · 3rd pct
- Floyd Patterson -1.48% 71″ reach · 3rd pct
- Tony Bellew -1.31% 74″ reach · 5th pct
- Rocky Marciano -4.27% 67″ reach · 0th 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
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: Ingemar Johansson on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles computed here.