Jeff Lacy
74″ reach · +5.74% reach advantage · 84th percentile
27–6
Jeff Lacy has a reach of 74″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +5.74%, long for light heavyweight boxing and the 84th percentile of the 98 compared here.
SOURCE·Jeff Lacy — 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 98 light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | L | Sullivan Barrera | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2014 | W | Timothy Hall Jr. | Decision | 8 |
| 2014 | L | Umberto Savigne | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Martin Verdin | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Dhafir Smith | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | L | Roy Jones Jr. | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2009 | W | Otis Griffin | Decision | 10 |
| 2008 | L | Jermain Taylor | Decision | 12 |
| 2008 | W | Epifanio Mendoza | Decision | 10 |
| 2007 | W | Peter Manfredo Jr. | Decision | 10 |
| 2006 | W | Vitali Tsypko | — | 10 |
| 2006 | L | Joe Calzaghe | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | W | Scott Pemberton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Robin Reid | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2005 | W | Rubin Williams | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2004 | W | Omar Sheika | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | W | Syd Vanderpool | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2004 | ? | Vitali Tsypko | — | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Donnell Wiggins | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2003 | W | Richard Grant | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | W | Anwar Oshana | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | James Crawford | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Ross Thompson | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Jason Collins | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Kevin Hall | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Bobby Jones | — | 10 |
| 2002 | W | Glenn Thomas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Fike Wilson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Bawa Adime | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Tyler Hughes | — | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Anthony Greeley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Tony Pope | — | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Tommy Attardo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Jerald Lowe | — | 1 |
| undated | W | style="text | — | — |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jeff Lacy — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.74%
74″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 56th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 16th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: super middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 29 of 34 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
27–6
34 bouts on record
Finish rate
67%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 65th percentile
The career, bout by bout
36 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2001–2015
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
36
34 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Kid Norfolk+5.74% 74″ reach · 84th pct
- Tavoris Cloud+5.74% 74″ reach · 84th pct
- Sugar Ray Leonard+5.74% 74″ reach · 84th pct
- Eddie Brooker+5.76% 73″ reach · 88th pct
- Anaclet Wamba+5.79% 79.1″ reach · 89th pct
- Tiger Jack Fox+5.66% 75″ reach · 82nd pct
- Matthew Saad Muhammad+5.66% 75″ reach · 82nd pct
- Anton Christoforidis+5.91% 72″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jeff Lacy's record?
- 27–6 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 36 bouts individually.
- How many of Jeff Lacy's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 36. 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 212 light heavyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Lacy sits inside.
212 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing29 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Jeff Lacy vs Roy Jones Jr.A bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2009 Longest unbeaten runsJeff Lacy went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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