Heavyweight boxing · 2000s
Taurus Sykes
71″ reach · -4.1% reach advantage · 1st percentile
Taurus Sykes has a reach of 71″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of -4.1%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 1st percentile of the 317 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-4.1%
71″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 5th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
25–8
32 bouts on record
Finish rate
28%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 4th percentile
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Sam Sexton-4.1% 71″ reach · 1st pct
- Nathan Gorman-3.94% 73″ reach · 1st pct
- Rocky Marciano-4.27% 67″ reach · 0th pct
- Mihai Nistor-3.83% 69.3″ reach · 2nd pct
- Gonzalo Omar Basile-5.1% 74″ reach · 0th pct
- Victor Emilio Ramírez-2.77% 69″ reach · 2nd pct
- Ingemar Johansson-2.73% 70.1″ reach · 2nd pct
- Gunboat Smith-2.71% 72″ reach · 3rd pct
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 317 heavyweight 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: Taurus Sykes on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-08-02. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.