Heavyweight Boxing · 1890s
James J. Corbett
73″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 6th percentile
James J. Corbett has a reach of 73″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of 0%, which is unusually short for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 6th percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
73″ reach on a 73″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 12th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 27th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1890s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
24–4
35 bouts recorded
Finish rate
50%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 15th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 12 | 50% |
| By decision | 12 | 50% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Jack Sharkey 0% 72″ reach · 6th pct
- Nikolai Valuev 0% 83.9″ reach · 6th pct
- Ivan Dychko 0% 81.1″ reach · 6th pct
- David Tua 0% 70.1″ reach · 6th pct
- Andy Ruiz Jr. 0% 74″ reach · 6th pct
- Vassiliy Jirov 0% 74″ reach · 6th pct
- Jack Dempsey 0% 73″ reach · 6th pct
- Alexander Povetkin +1.06% 74.8″ reach · 18th 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. Corbett on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-15. Percentiles computed here.