Jimmy Young

Jimmy Young has a reach of 74″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 317 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

74″ reach on a 74″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	74″ (188 cm)	15th pct
Height	74″ (188 cm)	39th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing
Peak era	1970s
Country	United States

Record

Boxing record

35–18

57 bouts on record

Finish rate

31%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 5th percentile

By knockout 31%
By decision 69%

The career, bout by bout

57 recorded bouts from 1969 to 1990. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1969–1990

Career span

22y

1969–1990

Longest unbeaten run

10

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1974

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

57

56 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
1990	W	Carl Porter	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Frank Lux	Decision	10
1988	L	Tim Anderson	Decision	10
1988	W	Rick Kellar	Decision	10
1987	N	Mike Jameson	—	2
1987	L	Eddie Richardson	Decision	10
1986	L	Chuck Gardner	Decision	8
1986	W	Rocky Sekorski	Decision	10
1985	D	Tony Fulilangi	Decision	10
1984	L	Tony Tucker	Decision	10
1983	L	Tony Tubbs	Decision	10
1982	L	Philipp Brown	Decision	10
1982	L	Pat Cuillo	Decision	10
1982	L	Greg Page	Decision	12
1981	W	Tommy Thomas	Decision	10
1981	W	Tom Fischer	Decision	10
1981	W	Jeff Sims	Decision	10
1981	W	Marvin Stinson	Decision	10
1981	W	Gordon Racette	KO/TKO	10
1980	L	Gerry Cooney	KO/TKO	4
1980	W	Don Halpin	KO/TKO	2
1979	W	John L. Gardner	Decision	10
1979	L	Michael Dokes	Decision	10
1979	W	Wendell Bailey	KO/TKO	3
1979	L	Ossie Ocasio	Decision	10
1978	L	Ossie Ocasio	Decision	10
1977	L	Ken Norton	Decision	15
1977	W	Jody Ballard	Decision	10
1977	W	George Foreman	Decision	12
1976	W	Ron Lyle	Decision	12
1976	W	Mike Boswell	KO/TKO	4
1976	W	Lou Rogan	KO/TKO	2
1976	L	Muhammad Ali	Decision	15
1976	W	Jose Roman	Decision	10
1975	W	Al Jones	KO/TKO	2
1975	W	Bobby Lloyd	KO/TKO	5
1975	W	Ron Lyle	Decision	10
1974	D	Earnie Shavers	Decision	10
1974	W	Jose Luis Garcia	Decision	10
1974	W	Les Stevens	Decision	10
1974	W	John Jordan	Decision	6
1974	W	Richard Dunn	KO/TKO	8
1973	D	Billy Aird	Decision	8
1973	W	Mike Boswell	Decision	6
1973	W	Obie English	Decision	6
1973	L	Earnie Shavers	KO/TKO	3
1972	L	Randy Neumann	Decision	10
1972	W	Jasper Evans	Decision	6
1971	W	Lou Hicks	Decision	8
1971	W	Andy Geiger	KO/TKO	1
1971	L	Roy Williams	Decision	4
1970	W	Howard Darlington	Decision	6
1970	W	Jimmy Gilmore	Decision	4
1970	L	Clay Hodges	Decision	6
1969	W	Johnny Gause	Decision	6
1969	W	Jim Jones	KO/TKO	1
—	?	Opponent	—	—

18 of these opponents have their own page here.

Closest in build

heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

How this is worked out

Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Full methodology →

Source: Jimmy Young (boxer) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.