Heavyweight Boxing · 1880s
John L. Sullivan
74″ reach · +5.74% reach advantage · 75th percentile
John L. Sullivan has a reach of 74″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +5.74%, which is long for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 75th percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.74%
74″ reach on a 70″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 15th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 4th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1880s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
42–1
46 bouts recorded
Finish rate
76%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 67th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 32 | 76% |
| By decision | 10 | 24% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Archie Moore +5.66% 75″ reach · 75th pct
- Gene Tunney +5.52% 76″ reach · 73rd pct
- Trevor Berbick +5.37% 78″ reach · 71st pct
- Oleg Maskaev +5.24% 79.1″ reach · 68th pct
- Riddick Bowe +5.16% 81″ reach · 67th pct
- Anthony Joshua +5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
- Filip Hrgović +5.05% 81.9″ reach · 65th pct
- Deontay Wilder +5.03% 83″ reach · 65th 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: John L. Sullivan on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles computed here.