Azumah Nelson
68″ reach · +4.6% reach advantage · 78th percentile
39–6–2
Azumah Nelson has a reach of 68″ against a height of 65″ — a reach advantage of +4.6%, long for lightweight boxing and the 78th percentile of the 120 compared here.
SOURCE·Azumah Nelson — 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 120 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | L | Jeff Fenech | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | L | Jesse James Leija | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | L | Genaro Hernández | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Jesse James Leija | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1995 | W | Gabriel Ruelas | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1994 | L | Jesse James Leija | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | D | Jesse James Leija | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Gabriel Ruelas | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Calvin Grove | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Jeff Fenech | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1991 | D | Jeff Fenech | Decision | 12 |
| 1991 | W | Daniyal Mustapha Ennin | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1990 | W | Juan Laporte | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | L | Pernell Whitaker | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Jim McDonnell | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Mario Martínez | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Sidnei Dal Rovere | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1988 | W | Lupe Suarez | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1988 | W | Mario Martínez | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | W | Marcos Villasana | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | W | Mauro Gutierrez | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1986 | W | Danilo Cabrera | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Marcos Villasana | Decision | 12 |
| 1985 | W | Pat Cowdell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Juvenal Ordenes | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1984 | W | Wilfredo Gómez | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1984 | W | Hector Cortez | Decision | 10 |
| 1983 | W | Kabiru Akindele | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1983 | W | Alberto Collazo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Alvin Fowler | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Ricky Wallace | Decision | 10 |
| 1982 | W | Irving Mitchell | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1982 | L | Salvador Sánchez | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1982 | W | Mukaila Bukare | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1982 | W | Charm Chiteule | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1981 | W | Kabiru Akindele | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1981 | W | Brian Roberts | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1981 | W | Miguel Ruiz | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1981 | W | Don George | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1981 | W | Aziza Bossou | Decision | 8 |
| 1980 | W | Joe Skipper | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1980 | W | David Capo | Decision | 10 |
| 1980 | W | Abdul Rahman Optoki | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1980 | W | Henry Saddler | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1980 | W | Nii Nuer | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1979 | W | Billy Kwame | Decision | 10 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Azumah Nelson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.6%
68″ reach on a 65″ frame
Compared against 120 lightweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.
| Reach | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 27th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 65″ (165.1 cm) | 14th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight Boxing competed at 3: featherweight, super featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 31 of 46 dated bouts | |
| Country | Ghana |
Record
Boxing record
39–6
47 bouts on record
Finish rate
72%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight boxing median 51%, 82nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
47 recorded bouts from 1979 to 2008. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
30y
1979–2008
Longest unbeaten run
20
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1980
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
47
46 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Michael Gomez+4.6% 68″ reach · 78th pct
- Alfred Kotey+4.6% 68″ reach · 78th pct
- Gabriel Elorde+4.6% 68″ reach · 78th pct
- Davit Kiria+4.59% 70″ reach · 76th pct
- Edwin Valero+4.59% 69″ reach · 76th pct
- Billy Petrolle+4.58% 70.1″ reach · 75th pct
- Richar Abril+4.57% 72″ reach · 74th pct
- Wesley Ramey+4.67% 67″ reach · 81st pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Azumah Nelson's record?
- 39–6–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 47 bouts individually.
- How many of Azumah Nelson's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 47. 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 270 lightweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Nelson sits inside.
270 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing31 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Azumah Nelson vs Wilfredo GómezA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1984 Longest unbeaten runsAzumah Nelson went 20 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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