Johnny Nelson

Johnny Nelson has a reach of 81″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +9.41%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 92nd percentile of the 317 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+9.41%

81″ reach on a 74″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.

-2.8%heavyweight boxing reach advantage12%

Measurements
Reach	81″ (205.7 cm)	77th pct
Height	74″ (188 cm)	39th pct
Stance	Orthodox
Division	Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: cruiserweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Peak era	1990s
Country	United Kingdom

Record

Boxing record

45–12

59 bouts on record

Finish rate

64%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 44th percentile

By knockout 64%
By decision 36%

The career, bout by bout

60 recorded bouts from 1986 to 2005. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC1986–2005

Career span

20y

1986–2005

Longest unbeaten run

20

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1988

7 bouts

Recorded bouts

60

58 with a date

Fights

Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
2005	W	Vincenzo Cantatore	Decision	12
2004	W	Rüdiger May	KO/TKO	7
2003	W	Alexander Petkovic	—	12
2002	D	Guillermo Jones	Decision	12
2002	W	Ezra Sellers	KO/TKO	8
2001	W	Alexander Vasiliev	Decision	12
2001	W	Marcelo Domínguez	Decision	12
2001	W	George Arias	Decision	12
2000	W	Adam Watt	KO/TKO	5
2000	W	Pietro Aurino	KO/TKO	7
1999	W	Christophe Girard	KO/TKO	4
1999	W	Sione Asipeli	Decision	12
1999	W	Willard Lewis	KO/TKO	4
1999	W	Bruce Scott	Decision	12
1999	W	Carl Thompson	KO/TKO	5
1998	W	Peter Oboh	—	6
1997	W	Dirk Wallyn	KO/TKO	1
1997	W	Michael Murray	Decision	4
1997	W	Patrice Aouissi	KO/TKO	7
1996	W	Dennis Andries	KO/TKO	7
1996	W	Tony Booth	KO/TKO	2
1995	L	Adílson Rodrigues	Decision	12
1994	W	Nikolay Kulpin	—	12
1994	L	Henry Akinwande	Decision	10
1993	W	Jimmy Thunder	Decision	12
1993	L	Franco Wanyama	—	10
1993	W	Tom Collins	KO/TKO	1
1993	W	Dave Russell	KO/TKO	11
1992	L	Corrie Sanders	Decision	10
1992	L	Norbert Ekassi	KO/TKO	3
1992	L	James Warring	—	12
1991	W	Yves Monsieur	KO/TKO	8
1990	W	Markus Bott	KO/TKO	12
1990	W	Andre Smith	Decision	8
1990	W	Arthur Weathers	KO/TKO	2
1990	W	Lou Gent	KO/TKO	4
1990	W	Dino Homsey	KO/TKO	7
1990	D	Carlos de León	Draw	12
1989	W	Ian Bulloch	KO/TKO	2
1989	W	Andy Straughn	KO/TKO	8
1989	W	Steve Mormino	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Danny Lawford	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Andrew Gerrard	Decision	8
1988	W	Lennie Howard	KO/TKO	2
1988	W	Crawford Ashley	Decision	8
1988	W	Kenny Jones	KO/TKO	1
1988	W	Cordwell Hylton	—	1
1988	L	Dennis Bailey	Decision	8
1987	W	Jon McBean	KO/TKO	6
1987	W	Byron Pullen	KO/TKO	3
1987	L	Brian Schumacher	Decision	8
1987	W	Sean Daly	—	1
1987	W	Doug Young	Decision	6
1987	W	George Carmen	Decision	6
1986	W	Chris Little	Decision	6
1986	L	Magne Havnaa	Decision	4
1986	L	Tommy Taylor	Decision	6
1986	L	Peter Brown	—	6
—	W	Danny Lawford	KO/TKO	2
—	?	Opponent	—	—

20 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: Johnny Nelson on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-10. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.