Light Heavyweight Boxing · 1940s
Jake LaMotta
67″ reach · -1.45% reach advantage · 4th percentile
Jake LaMotta has a reach of 67″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of -1.45%, which is unusually short for a light heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 4th percentile of the 209 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-1.45%
67″ reach on a 68″ frame
Against 209 light heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 2.79%.
| Reach | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 0th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 5th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1940s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
83–19
106 bouts recorded
Finish rate
36%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 59%, 17th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 30 | 36% |
| By decision | 53 | 64% |
Closest in build
Light Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Andre Ward -1.42% 71″ reach · 5th pct
- Bernard Hopkins -2.75% 71″ reach · 0th pct
- Dmitry Bivol 0% 72″ reach · 15th pct
- Joe Calzaghe +1.37% 73″ reach · 32nd pct
- Mikkel Kessler +1.62% 74″ reach · 39th pct
- Slobodan Kačar +2.79% 74″ reach · 48th pct
- Artur Beterbiev +2.83% 73″ reach · 54th pct
- Sugar Ray Leonard +5.74% 74″ reach · 84th 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 209 light heavyweight Boxing fighters in this dataset — not among everyone who has ever fought.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Jake LaMotta on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles computed here.