Heavyweight Boxing · 1970s
Larry Holmes
81″ reach · +7.98% reach advantage · 85th percentile
Larry Holmes has a reach of 81″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +7.98%, which is long for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 85th percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+7.98%
81″ reach on a 75″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 81″ (205.7 cm) | 77th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 54th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1970s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
69–6
75 bouts recorded
Finish rate
64%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 42nd percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 44 | 64% |
| By decision | 25 | 36% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Joe Bugner +7.93% 82″ reach · 84th pct
- Tommy Burns +8.93% 73″ reach · 89th pct
- Lennox Lewis +9.1% 84″ reach · 90th pct
- Ken Norton +6.67% 80″ reach · 79th pct
- Frank Bruno +9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Max Baer Sr. +9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Félix Savón +6.49% 82″ reach · 78th pct
- John L. Sullivan +5.74% 74″ reach · 75th 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: Larry Holmes on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles computed here.