Heavyweight Boxing · 1930s
Max Baer Sr.
81″ reach · +9.41% reach advantage · 92nd percentile
Max Baer Sr. has a reach of 81″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of +9.41%, which is exceptional for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 92nd percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+9.41%
81″ reach on a 74″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 81″ (205.7 cm) | 77th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 40th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1930s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
68–13
81 bouts recorded
Finish rate
75%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 64th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 51 | 75% |
| By decision | 17 | 25% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Frank Bruno +9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Lennox Lewis +9.1% 84″ reach · 90th pct
- Tommy Burns +8.93% 73″ reach · 89th pct
- Primo Carnera +10.38% 85″ reach · 95th pct
- Buster Douglas +10.66% 83″ reach · 96th pct
- Hasim Rahman +10.8% 82″ reach · 96th pct
- Larry Holmes +7.98% 81″ reach · 85th pct
- Joe Bugner +7.93% 82″ reach · 84th 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: Max Baer (boxer) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-24. Percentiles computed here.