What 1980s boxing fighters actually measure — 205 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.
median reach advantage
+3%
Across the 205 1980s boxing fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 3% — a median reach of 71″ on a median height of 68″.
85% fight orthodox.
SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026
Cohort profile
The era's shape
Median reach
71″
180.3 cm
Median height
68″
172.7 cm
Median reach advantage
3%
of body height
Median finish rate
64%
of wins inside the distance
Fighters
205
101 with a reach on file
-3.1%1980s boxing reach advantage10.7%
Stance
orthodox85%
southpaw15%
By country
United States75
South Korea18
United Kingdom15
Mexico14
Japan9
Colombia8
Venezuela6
France6
Italy6
Argentina5
How this era is compiled
Every published fighter this site files under 1980s boxing — 205 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
The decade is MEASURED, not projected: it is the decade holding more of a fighter's dated bouts than any other. A fighter with fewer than three dated bouts has no decade here and appears in no era cohort.
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 1980s boxing fighters have a reach on record?
101 of 205. 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 101. It is not extrapolated to the others.
Why do some decades have no page here?
A decade is published only where at least 30 fighters belong to it. Below that a median is a rumour, so no page is emitted and nothing links to one. A fighter's decade is also measured, not estimated — it is the decade holding more of their dated bouts than any other, and a fighter with fewer than three dated bouts belongs to no decade at all.
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