Light Heavyweight Boxing · 1980s
Sugar Ray Leonard
74″ reach · +5.74% reach advantage · 84th percentile
Sugar Ray Leonard has a reach of 74″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +5.74%, which is long for a light heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 84th percentile of the 209 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.74%
74″ reach on a 70″ frame
Against 209 light heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 2.79%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 56th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 18th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 5: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1980s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
36–3
40 bouts recorded
Finish rate
69%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 59%, 73rd percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 25 | 69% |
| By decision | 11 | 31% |
Closest in build
Light Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Artur Beterbiev +2.83% 73″ reach · 54th pct
- Slobodan Kačar +2.79% 74″ reach · 48th pct
- Mikkel Kessler +1.62% 74″ reach · 39th pct
- Joe Calzaghe +1.37% 73″ reach · 32nd pct
- Dmitry Bivol 0% 72″ reach · 15th pct
- Andre Ward -1.42% 71″ reach · 5th pct
- Jake LaMotta -1.45% 67″ reach · 4th pct
- Bernard Hopkins -2.75% 71″ reach · 0th 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 209 light heavyweight Boxing fighters in this dataset — not among everyone who has ever fought.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Sugar Ray Leonard on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-07. Percentiles computed here.