Ilunga Makabu Jr.
74″ reach · +2.73% reach advantage · 49th percentile
31–4
Ilunga Makabu Jr. has a reach of 74″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +2.73%, average for cruiserweight boxing and the 49th percentile of the 80 compared here.
SOURCE·Ilunga Makabu — 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 80 cruiserweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | W | Dodzi Kemeh | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Wagdy Attia | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2023 | L | Noel Mikaelian | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2023 | L | Badou Jack | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2022 | W | Thabiso Mchunu | Decision | 12 |
| 2020 | W | Olanrewaju Durodola | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2020 | W | Michał Cieślak | — | 12 |
| 2019 | W | Alexei Papin | Decision | 12 |
| 2019 | W | Dmitry Kudryashov | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2018 | W | Giorgi Tevdorashvili | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2018 | W | Paata Aduashvili | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2018 | W | Taylor Mabika | — | 4 |
| 2017 | W | Mussa Ajibu | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2017 | W | Chamunorwa Gonorenda | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2016 | L | Tony Bellew | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Thabiso Mchunu | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2014 | W | Tamas Bajzath | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Glen Johnson | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2014 | W | Ruben Angel Mino | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Eric Fields | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2013 | W | Dmytro Kucher | — | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Tamas Lodi | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Gogita Gorgiladze | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2012 | W | Michael Gbenga | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Pedro Otas | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2011 | W | Collice Mutizwa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Nsitu Mbaya | — | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Danie Venter | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2010 | W | Elvis Moyo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Ben Moakamela | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Chamunorwa Gonorenda | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Sean Santana | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Nicholas Ramantswana | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Elvis Moyo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Khayeni Hlungwane | — | 1 |
11 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Ilunga Makabu — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.73%
74″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 80 cruiserweight boxing fighters. Median 2.74%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 28th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (183 cm) | 38th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Cruiserweight Boxing competed at 2: light heavyweight, cruiserweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 24 of 35 dated bouts | |
| Country | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Record
Boxing record
31–4
35 bouts on record
Finish rate
87%
of wins ended inside the distance — cruiserweight boxing median 67%, 91st percentile
The career, bout by bout
35 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
2008–2025
Longest unbeaten run
17
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2010
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
35
35 with a date
Closest in build
cruiserweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Imre Szellő+2.75% 75″ reach · 50th pct
- Éric Lucas+2.79% 74″ reach · 51st pct
- Lou Del Valle+2.79% 74″ reach · 51st pct
- Nathan Cleverly+2.66% 76″ reach · 48th pct
- Alfonso Ratliff+2.64% 78″ reach · 46th pct
- Callum Johnson+2.83% 73″ reach · 54th pct
- Thomas Oosthuizen+2.59% 78″ reach · 45th pct
- Steve Little+2.87% 72″ reach · 55th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Ilunga Makabu Jr.'s record?
- 31–4 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 35 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 161 cruiserweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Jr. sits inside.
161 FIGHTERS 2010s boxing24 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
730 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsIlunga Makabu Jr. went 17 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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