Heavyweight Boxing · 1940s
Joe Louis
76″ reach · +3.37% reach advantage · 44th percentile
Joe Louis has a reach of 76″ against a height of 73.5″ — a reach advantage of +3.37%, which is short for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 44th percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.37%
76″ reach on a 73.5″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 76″ (193 cm) | 32nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73.5″ (186.7 cm) | 38th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1940s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
66–3
69 bouts recorded
Finish rate
79%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 75th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 52 | 79% |
| By decision | 14 | 21% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Tony Yoka +3.48% 81.9″ reach · 45th pct
- Marco Huck +3.72% 76.8″ reach · 46th pct
- Jack Johnson +2.79% 74″ reach · 41st pct
- Jersey Joe Walcott +2.79% 74″ reach · 41st pct
- David Haye +3.99% 78″ reach · 49th pct
- Henry Cooper +2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
- Muhammad Ali +3.99% 78″ reach · 49th pct
- Oleksandr Usyk +3.99% 78″ reach · 49th 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: Joe Louis on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles computed here.