Light Middleweight Boxing · 1990s
Pernell Whitaker
69″ reach · +4.59% reach advantage · 79th percentile
Pernell Whitaker has a reach of 69″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +4.59%, which is long for a light middleweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 79th percentile of the 160 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.59%
69″ reach on a 66″ frame
Against 160 light middleweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 2.87%.
| Reach | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 18th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 3rd pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Light Middleweight Boxing competed at 4: lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, light middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1990s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
40–4
46 bouts recorded
Finish rate
43%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 63%, 19th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 17 | 43% |
| By decision | 23 | 57% |
Closest in build
Light Middleweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
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 160 light middleweight Boxing fighters in this dataset — not among everyone who has ever fought.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Pernell Whitaker on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles computed here.