What light welterweight boxing fighters actually measure — 182 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.
median reach advantage
+2.34%
Across the 182 light welterweight boxing fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 2.34% — a median reach of 69″ on a median height of 68″.
76% fight orthodox.
SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026
Cohort profile
The division's shape
Median reach
69″
175.3 cm
Median height
68″
172.7 cm
Median reach advantage
2.34%
of body height
Median finish rate
56%
of wins inside the distance
Fighters
182
97 with a reach on file
-3%light welterweight boxing reach advantage8.9%
Stance
orthodox76%
southpaw24%
By era
2010s49
2000s24
1990s19
1980s12
2020s10
1970s7
1960s6
1950s2
By country
United States54
Mexico17
United Kingdom14
Argentina9
Russia8
France5
Italy5
Colombia4
Australia4
Spain4
How this division is compiled
Every published fighter this site files under light welterweight boxing — 182 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
Medians, not means — one outlier should not move the typical figure.
A cohort is only published at 30 fighters or more. Below that a median is a rumour, so no page is emitted and nothing links to one.
How many light welterweight boxing fighters have a reach on record?
97 of 182. Reach is stated in the English Wikipedia infobox for those and absent for the rest, so every reach figure on this page — including the median — describes only the 97. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for light welterweight boxing?
That the typical light welterweight boxing fighter's reach exceeds their height by 2.34% of that height. It is a ratio rather than a raw span, so it compares directly against any other cohort on this site — which a reach in inches does not. Half of these fighters are above it and half below; it is not a standard or a target.
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