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Welterweight boxing

What welterweight boxing fighters actually measure — 304 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+2.83%

Across the 304 welterweight boxing fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 2.83% — a median reach of 70″ on a median height of 68″. 81% fight orthodox.

SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

Cohort profile

The division's shape

Median reach

70″

177.8 cm

Median height

68″

172.7 cm

Median reach advantage

2.83%

of body height

Median finish rate

54%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

304

130 with a reach on file

-2.9%welterweight boxing reach advantage9.4%

Stance

  • orthodox81%
  • southpaw19%

By era

  • 2010s54
  • 2000s37
  • 1990s18
  • 1980s14
  • 1930s11
  • 2020s10
  • 1910s9
  • 1920s7

By country

  • United States117
  • United Kingdom26
  • Mexico18
  • Russia10
  • Argentina8
  • Canada7
  • Kingdom of Denmark7
  • Uzbekistan7
  • Australia6
  • Italy6

How this division is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under welterweight boxing — 304 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Medians, not means — one outlier should not move the typical figure.
  4. 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.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Longest reach for the frame

welterweight boxing — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Ted Morgan80″67.7″+18.14%
2Maurice Hooker80″71″+12.7%
3Lou Ambers70″64″+9.35%
4Omar Figueroa Jr.73″67″+8.93%
5Ener Julio76″70″+8.55%
6Justin Juuko72″67″+7.46%
7Sharmba Mitchell72″67″+7.46%
8Luciano Leonel Cuello74.4″69.7″+6.78%
9Benny Leonard69″65″+6.18%
10Young Peter Jackson70″66″+6.09%
11Pablo César Cano71″67″+5.93%
12Carlos González72″68″+5.91%
13Brian Norman Jr.72″68″+5.91%
14Devin Haney72″68″+5.91%
15Andrew Lewis72″68″+5.91%
16Erik Morales72″68″+5.91%
17Barbados Joe Walcott65″61.4″+5.83%
18Billy Dib70.5″67.3″+4.68%
19Armando "The Man" Muñíz70.9″67.7″+4.65%
20Lucas Matthysse69″66″+4.59%
21Timothy Bradley69″66″+4.59%
22Felix Flores70″67″+4.47%
23DeMarcus Corley70″67″+4.47%
24Nate Campbell70″67″+4.47%
25Tommy Freeman70″67″+4.47%
26Fredia Gibbs70″67″+4.47%
27John H. Stracey70″67″+4.47%
28Sergio Mora75.2″72″+4.43%
29Roberto García74.4″71.3″+4.42%
30Dave Shade71″68″+4.4%
31Bennie Briscoe71″68″+4.4%
32Liam Paro71″68″+4.4%
33María Maderna72″69″+4.34%
34Arnold Barboza Jr.72″69″+4.34%
35Lamont Peterson72″69″+4.34%
36Luis Collazo72″69″+4.34%
37Errol Spence Jr.72″69″+4.34%
38Isaac Hlatshwayo70.9″68.1″+4.05%
39Mushy Callahan70″67.5″+3.67%
40Félix Díaz67″65″+3.09%

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SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

All 304 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many welterweight boxing fighters have a reach on record?
130 of 304. 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 130. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for welterweight boxing?
That the typical welterweight boxing fighter's reach exceeds their height by 2.83% 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.
Cross-references
Lightweight MMA

The nearest cohort in size to welterweight boxing — 304 fighters against 304, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

304 FIGHTERS Welterweight MMA

The nearest cohort in size to welterweight boxing — 302 fighters against 304, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

302 FIGHTERS By decade

Whether welterweight boxing looks the way it does because of the weight or because of the decade — the same fighters, cut by when they actually fought.

16 DECADES Longest reach for the frame

The extremes this cohort's median is drawn from, ranked across all 2,650 fighters with a reach on file.

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DATA · JUL 2026 amitsharma.co.nz

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