Heavyweight Boxing · 1950s
Sonny Liston
84″ reach · +15.1% reach advantage · 100th percentile
Sonny Liston has a reach of 84″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +15.1%, which is exceptional for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 100th percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+15.1%
84″ reach on a 73″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 84″ (213.4 cm) | 94th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 27th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 1950s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
50–4
54 bouts recorded
Finish rate
78%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 73rd percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 39 | 78% |
| By decision | 11 | 22% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Audley Harrison +11.66% 86″ reach · 97th pct
- Hasim Rahman +10.8% 82″ reach · 96th pct
- Buster Douglas +10.66% 83″ reach · 96th pct
- Primo Carnera +10.38% 85″ reach · 95th pct
- Max Baer Sr. +9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Frank Bruno +9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Lennox Lewis +9.1% 84″ reach · 90th pct
- Tommy Burns +8.93% 73″ reach · 89th 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: Sonny Liston on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-29. Percentiles computed here.