Sergey Kovalev
36–5 · 42 recorded bouts · 2009–2025
Sergey Kovalev finished 83% of 36 wins inside the distance — the 87th percentile for cruiserweight boxing, where the median is 67%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Cruiserweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, cruiserweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2010s | |
| Country | Russia |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Sergey Kovalev, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
Boxing record
36–5
42 bouts on record
Finish rate
83%
of wins ended inside the distance — cruiserweight boxing median 67%, 87th percentile
The career, bout by bout
42 recorded bouts from 2009 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
2009–2025
Longest unbeaten run
28
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2010
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
42
42 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | W | Artur Mann | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2024 | L | Robin Sirwan Safar | Decision | 10 |
| 2022 | W | Tervel Pulev | Decision | 10 |
| 2019 | L | Canelo Álvarez | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2019 | W | Anthony Yarde | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2019 | W | Eleider Álvarez | Decision | 12 |
| 2018 | L | Eleider Álvarez | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2018 | W | Igor Mikhalkin | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2017 | W | Vyacheslav Shabranskyy | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | L | Andre Ward | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2016 | L | Andre Ward | Decision | 12 |
| 2016 | W | Isaac Chilemba | Decision | 12 |
| 2016 | W | Jean Pascal | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2015 | W | Nadjib Mohammedi | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Jean Pascal | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2014 | W | Bernard Hopkins | Decision | 12 |
| 2014 | W | Blake Caparello | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Cedric Agnew | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2013 | W | Ismail Sillakh | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Nathan Cleverly | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2013 | W | Cornelius White | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Gabriel Campillo | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Lionell Thompson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Darnell Boone | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Roman Simakov | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2011 | D | Grover Young | Draw | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Douglas Otieno Okola | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Terrance Woods | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Julius Fogle | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | William Johnson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Karen Avetisyan | — | 6 |
| 2010 | W | Dallas Vargas | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Darnell Boone | — | 8 |
| 2010 | W | Kia Daniels | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Harley Kilfian | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Nathan Bedwell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Francois Ambang | — | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Micky Stackhouse | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Ayodeji Fadeyi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Michael Birthmark | — | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Darryl Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Daniel Chavez | — | 1 |
21 of these opponents have their own page here.
How this is worked out
- Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 158 cruiserweight boxing fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Sergey Kovalev on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-14. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.