Gerry Cooney
81″ reach · +3.84% reach advantage · 47th percentile
28–3
Gerry Cooney has a reach of 81″ against a height of 78″ — a reach advantage of +3.84%, average for heavyweight boxing and the 47th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Gerry Cooney — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | L | George Foreman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | L | Michael Spinks | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1986 | W | Eddie Gregg | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1984 | W | George Chaplin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1984 | W | Philipp Brown | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1983 | W | Boone Kirkman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | L | Larry Holmes | KO/TKO | 13 |
| 1982 | ? | Harold Rice | — | 4 |
| 1981 | W | Ken Norton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1980 | W | Ron Lyle | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1980 | W | Jimmy Young | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1979 | W | Leroy Boone | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1979 | W | John Dino Denis | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1979 | W | Malik Dozier | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1979 | W | Broderick Mason | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1979 | W | Tom Prater | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1979 | W | Charlie Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1979 | W | Eddie Lopez | Decision | 8 |
| 1978 | W | Grady Daniels | — | 5 |
| 1978 | W | Sam McGill | — | 8 |
| 1978 | W | Charley Polite | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1978 | W | G. G. Maldonado | — | 8 |
| 1978 | W | S. T. Gordon | — | 4 |
| 1978 | W | Gary Bates | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1978 | W | Austin Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1978 | W | Terry Lee Kidd | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Jimmie Sykes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Quinnie Locklear | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Joe Maye | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1977 | W | Matt Robinson | — | 4 |
| 1977 | W | Jose Rosario | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1977 | W | Jimmy Robertson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1977 | W | Bill Jackson | — | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
7 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Gerry Cooney — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.84%
81″ reach on a 78″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 81″ (205.7 cm) | 77th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 78″ (198.1 cm) | 90th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 22 of 33 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
28–3
31 bouts on record
Finish rate
86%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 86th percentile
The career, bout by bout
34 recorded bouts from 1977 to 1990. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
1977–1990
Longest unbeaten run
25
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1978
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
34
33 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Alex Leapai+3.83% 74.8″ reach · 47th pct
- Jean-Marc Mormeck+3.87% 74″ reach · 47th pct
- Jorge Luis González+3.79% 82″ reach · 46th pct
- Leroy Jones+3.89% 80″ reach · 48th pct
- Attila Levin+3.89% 80″ reach · 48th pct
- Tyrell Biggs+3.89% 80″ reach · 48th pct
- Charles Martin+3.89% 80″ reach · 48th pct
- Marco Huck+3.72% 76.8″ reach · 46th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Gerry Cooney's record?
- 28–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 34 bouts individually.
- How many of Gerry Cooney's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 34. 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 Cooney sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing22 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
115 FIGHTERS George Foreman vs Gerry CooneyA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1990 Longest unbeaten runsGerry Cooney went 25 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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