Heavyweight Boxing · 1900s
Tommy Burns
73″ reach · +8.93% reach advantage · 89th percentile
Tommy Burns has a reach of 73″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +8.93%, which is long for a heavyweight Boxing fighter and sits at the 89th percentile of the 594 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+8.93%
73″ reach on a 67″ frame
Against 594 heavyweight Boxing fighters. Division median is 3.99%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 12th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 1st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 3: welterweight, middleweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1900s | |
| Country | Canada |
Record
Boxing record
47–5
61 bouts recorded
Finish rate
74%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 68%, 64th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| By knockout | 35 | 74% |
| By decision | 12 | 26% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight Boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Lennox Lewis +9.1% 84″ reach · 90th pct
- Frank Bruno +9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Max Baer Sr. +9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Larry Holmes +7.98% 81″ reach · 85th pct
- Joe Bugner +7.93% 82″ reach · 84th pct
- Primo Carnera +10.38% 85″ reach · 95th pct
- Buster Douglas +10.66% 83″ reach · 96th pct
- Hasim Rahman +10.8% 82″ reach · 96th 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: Tommy Burns (Canadian boxer) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-25. Percentiles computed here.