Frank Bruno
82″ reach · +9.34% reach advantage · 91st percentile
40–5
Frank Bruno has a reach of 82″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +9.34%, exceptional for heavyweight boxing and the 91st percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Frank Bruno — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
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 2026-08-03. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | L | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1995 | W | Oliver McCall | Decision | 12 |
| 1995 | W | Mike Evans | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Rodolfo Marin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Jesse Ferguson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | L | Lennox Lewis | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1993 | W | Carl Williams | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Pierre Coetzer | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1992 | W | Jose Ribalta | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1991 | W | John Emmen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | L | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1987 | W | Joe Bugner | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1987 | W | Reggie Gross | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1987 | W | Chuck Gardner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | James Tillis | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1986 | L | Tim Witherspoon | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1986 | W | Gerrie Coetzee | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Larry Frazier | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1985 | W | Anders Eklund | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1985 | W | Lucien Rodriguez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1984 | W | Phillip Brown | — | 10 |
| 1984 | W | Jeff Jordan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1984 | W | Ken Lakusta | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1984 | L | James Smith | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1984 | W | Juan Antonio Figueroa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1983 | W | Walter Santemore | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1983 | W | Floyd Cummings | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1983 | W | Bill Sharkey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1983 | W | Mike Jameson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Barry Funches | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1983 | W | Scott LeDoux | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1983 | W | Eddie Neilson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1983 | W | Winston Allen | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Peter Mulindwa Kozza | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1983 | W | Stewart Lithgo | — | 4 |
| 1982 | W | Gilberto Acuna | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | George Butzbach | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Rudy Gauwe | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Ali Lukasa | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | George Scott | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Tony Moore | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Ronald Gibbs | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1982 | W | Abdul Muhaymin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Harvey Steichen | — | 2 |
| 1982 | W | Lupe Guerra | — | 1 |
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Frank Bruno — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+9.34%
82″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 82″ (208.3 cm) | 83rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 57th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 35 of 45 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
Boxing record
40–5
45 bouts on record
Finish rate
95%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 96th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 1982 to 1996. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1982–1996
Longest unbeaten run
23
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1982
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
45 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Kevin Johnson+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Steve Cunningham+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Donovan Ruddock+9.34% 82″ reach · 91st pct
- Kirk Johnson+9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Greg Page+9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Johnny Nelson+9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Max Baer Sr.+9.41% 81″ reach · 92nd pct
- Mike Williams+9.22% 83″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Frank Bruno's record?
- 40–5 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 45 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 Bruno sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing35 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Frank Bruno vs Gerrie CoetzeeA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1986 Longest unbeaten runsFrank Bruno went 23 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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