Heavyweight Boxing · 1970s
Ken Norton
80″ reach · +6.67% reach advantage · 79th percentile
Ken Norton has a reach of 80″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +6.67%, which is long for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 79th percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.67%
80″ reach on a 75″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 80″ (203.2 cm) | 69th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 54th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1970s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
42–7
50 bouts recorded
Finish rate
79%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 74th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 33 | 79% |
| By decision | 9 | 21% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Félix Savón +6.49% 82″ reach · 78th pct
- John L. Sullivan +5.74% 74″ reach · 75th pct
- Archie Moore +5.66% 75″ reach · 75th pct
- Gene Tunney +5.52% 76″ reach · 73rd pct
- Joe Bugner +7.93% 82″ reach · 84th pct
- Trevor Berbick +5.37% 78″ reach · 71st pct
- Larry Holmes +7.98% 81″ reach · 85th pct
- Oleg Maskaev +5.24% 79.1″ reach · 68th 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: Ken Norton on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-04. Percentiles computed here.