Andrew Golota
79.1″ reach · +4.15% reach advantage · 58th percentile
41–9–1
Andrew Golota has a reach of 79.1″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +4.15%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 58th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Andrew Golota — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-06. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 317 heavyweight boxing fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Przemysław Saleta | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2009 | L | Tomasz Adamek | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2008 | L | Ray Austin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Mike Mollo | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Kevin McBride | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2007 | W | Jeremy Bates | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Lamon Brewster | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | John Ruiz | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | D | Chris Byrd | Draw | 12 |
| 2003 | W | Terrence Lewis | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2003 | W | Brian Nix | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2000 | ? | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Orlin Norris | Decision | 10 |
| 2000 | W | Marcus Rhode | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1999 | L | Michael Grant | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1999 | W | Quinn Navarre | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1999 | W | Jesse Ferguson | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | W | Tim Witherspoon | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | W | Corey Sanders | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | W | Jack Basting | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Eli Dixon | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1997 | L | Lennox Lewis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Riddick Bowe | DQ | 9 |
| 1996 | W | Danell Nicholson | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1996 | W | Charles Hostetter | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Jason Waller | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | West Turner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Samson Po'uha | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1995 | W | Marion Wilson | — | 10 |
| 1995 | W | Dwayne Hall | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Darren Hayden | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1994 | W | Jeff Lampkin | — | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Jesse Shelby | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Terry Davis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Larry Davis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Donnell Wingfield | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Calvin Jones | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Andre Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Marion Wilson | Decision | 8 |
| 1993 | W | Carlton West | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Kevin P. Porter | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Bobby Crabtree | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Andre Crowder | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Eddie Taylor | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Aaron Brown | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1992 | W | James Holly | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Robert Smith | — | 6 |
| 1992 | W | Joey Christjohn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Charles Presswood | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Joe Jones | — | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Roosevelt Shuler | — | 3 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
21 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Andrew Golota — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.15%
79.1″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 79.1″ (201 cm) | 66th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 71st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 37 of 51 dated bouts | |
| Country | Poland |
Record
Boxing record
41–9
52 bouts on record
Finish rate
80%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 79th percentile
The career, bout by bout
52 recorded bouts from 1992 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
1992–2013
Longest unbeaten run
26
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1992
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
52
51 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Buster Mathis Jr.+4.16% 75″ reach · 58th pct
- Eddie Machen+4.16% 75″ reach · 58th pct
- Alex Stewart+4.19% 78.3″ reach · 59th pct
- Mike Perez+4.1% 76″ reach · 56th pct
- Jimmy Ellis+4.1% 76″ reach · 56th pct
- Leon Spinks+4.1% 76″ reach · 56th pct
- Max Schmeling+4.1% 76″ reach · 56th pct
- Jake Paul+4.1% 76″ reach · 56th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Andrew Golota's record?
- 41–9–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 52 bouts individually.
- How many of Andrew Golota's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 52. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 605 heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Golota sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing37 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Andrew Golota vs Kevin McBrideA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2007 Longest unbeaten runsAndrew Golota went 26 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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