David Tua
70.1″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 6th percentile
52–5–2
David Tua has a reach of 70.1″ against a height of 70.1″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight boxing and the 6th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·David Tua — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
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 2026-07-07. 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 | Alexander Ustinov | Decision | 12 |
| 2011 | L | Monte Barrett | Decision | 12 |
| 2011 | W | Demetrice King | Decision | 10 |
| 2010 | D | Monte Barrett | Draw | 12 |
| 2010 | W | Friday Ahunanya | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Shane Cameron | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Cerrone Fox | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Saúl Montana | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Robert Hawkins | Decision | 10 |
| 2006 | W | Maurice Wheeler | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2006 | W | Edward Gutierrez | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2005 | W | Cisse Salif | — | 10 |
| 2005 | W | Talmadge Griffis | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2003 | D | Hasim Rahman | Draw | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Russell Chasteen | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Michael Moorer | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Fres Oquendo | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2001 | W | Garing Lane | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2001 | L | Chris Byrd | Decision | 12 |
| 2001 | W | Danell Nicholson | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2000 | L | Lennox Lewis | Decision | 12 |
| 2000 | W | Robert Daniels | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Obed Sullivan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Shane Sutcliffe | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Gary Bell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Hasim Rahman | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1998 | W | Eric Curry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Nate Tubbs | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Cleveland Woods | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Jeff Wooden | — | 10 |
| 1997 | W | Jeff Lally | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | L | Ike Ibeabuchi | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Oleg Maskaev | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1996 | W | David Izon | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Darroll Wilson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Anthony Cooks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | John Ruiz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Bruce Bellocchi | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Mauricio Villegas | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1995 | W | Sean Hart | Decision | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Dan Murphy | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1995 | W | Bruce Bellocchi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Cecil Coffee | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Ken Lakusta | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1994 | W | Everton Davis | Decision | 10 |
| 1994 | W | Lester Jackson | Decision | 8 |
| 1994 | W | Calvin Jones | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1994 | W | Bill Corrigan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Mike Acey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Krishna Wainwright | — | 6 |
| 1993 | W | Rick Honeycutt | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Larry Davis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Bruce Johnson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Willie Washington | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Alfredo Nevarez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Howard Kelly | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Lazaro Almanza | — | 3 |
| 1992 | W | Lorenzo Poole | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Ron Humes | — | 1 |
20 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·David Tua — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
70.1″ reach on a 70.1″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 70.1″ (178 cm) | 4th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70.1″ (178 cm) | 7th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 36 of 59 dated bouts | |
| Country | New Zealand |
Record
Boxing record
52–5
59 bouts on record
Finish rate
83%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 82nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
59 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
27
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1993
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
59
59 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is David Tua's record?
- 52–5–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 59 bouts individually.
- 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 Tua sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing36 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsDavid Tua went 27 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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