Heavyweight Boxing · 1900s
Jack Johnson
74″ reach · +2.79% reach advantage · 41st percentile
Jack Johnson has a reach of 74″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +2.79%, which is short for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 41st percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.79%
74″ reach on a 72″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 15th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 17th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1900s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
68–11
94 bouts recorded
Finish rate
50%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 15th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 34 | 50% |
| By decision | 34 | 50% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Jersey Joe Walcott +2.79% 74″ reach · 41st pct
- Henry Cooper +2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
- Sultan Ibragimov +2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Michael Spinks +2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Michael Moorer +2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Zhilei Zhang +2.53% 79.9″ reach · 33rd pct
- Bakhodir Jalolov +2.34% 81″ reach · 31st pct
- Joe Louis +3.37% 76″ reach · 44th 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: Jack Johnson on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-27. Percentiles computed here.