Heavyweight Boxing · 1930s
James J. Braddock
75″ reach · +1.33% reach advantage · 22nd percentile
James J. Braddock has a reach of 75″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +1.33%, which is unusually short for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 22nd percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.33%
75″ reach on a 74″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 24th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 40th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1930s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
52–26
88 bouts recorded
Finish rate
52%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 20th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 27 | 52% |
| By decision | 25 | 48% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Antonio Tarver +1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
- Ezzard Charles +1.37% 73″ reach · 25th pct
- Teófilo Stevenson +1.28% 78″ reach · 19th pct
- Chris Byrd +1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
- Mike Tyson +1.41% 71″ reach · 26th pct
- Alexander Povetkin +1.06% 74.8″ reach · 18th pct
- Ruslan Chagaev +1.62% 74″ reach · 29th pct
- Sam Berger +2.04% 75″ reach · 29th 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: James J. Braddock on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-03. Percentiles computed here.