Heavyweight Boxing · 1940s
Jersey Joe Walcott
74″ reach · +2.79% reach advantage · 41st percentile
Jersey Joe Walcott 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 | 1940s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
49–20
70 bouts recorded
Finish rate
63%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 40th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 31 | 63% |
| By decision | 18 | 37% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Jack Johnson +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: Jersey Joe Walcott on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-26. Percentiles computed here.