Heavyweight Boxing · 1930s
Primo Carnera
85″ reach · +10.38% reach advantage · 95th percentile
Primo Carnera has a reach of 85″ against a height of 77″ — a reach advantage of +10.38%, which is exceptional for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 95th percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+10.38%
85″ reach on a 77″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 85″ (215.9 cm) | 97th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 81st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1930s | |
| Country | Italy |
Record
Boxing record
88–14
103 bouts recorded
Finish rate
81%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 79th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 71 | 81% |
| By decision | 17 | 19% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Buster Douglas +10.66% 83″ reach · 96th pct
- Hasim Rahman +10.8% 82″ reach · 96th pct
- Max Baer Sr. +9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Frank Bruno +9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Audley Harrison +11.66% 86″ reach · 97th pct
- Lennox Lewis +9.1% 84″ reach · 90th pct
- Tommy Burns +8.93% 73″ reach · 89th pct
- Larry Holmes +7.98% 81″ reach · 85th 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: Primo Carnera on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-24. Percentiles computed here.