John Tate
80″ reach · +5.28% reach advantage · 68th percentile
34–3
John Tate has a reach of 80″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +5.28%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 68th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·John Tate (boxer) — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | L | Noel Quarless | Decision | 10 |
| 1988 | W | Wesley Smith | Decision | 4 |
| 1987 | W | Mark Green | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Calvin Jones | Decision | 4 |
| 1986 | W | Steve Eisenbarth | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1983 | W | Marty Capasso | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Donnie Long | Decision | 10 |
| 1983 | W | Danny Sutton | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1982 | W | Bruce Grandham | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | W | Leroy Boone | Decision | 10 |
| 1982 | W | Leroy Caldwell | Decision | 10 |
| 1981 | W | Chuck Gardner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1981 | W | Barry Funches | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1981 | W | Clayman Parker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1981 | W | Harvey Steichen | Decision | 10 |
| 1980 | L | Trevor Berbick | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1980 | L | Mike Weaver | KO/TKO | 15 |
| 1979 | W | Gerrie Coetzee | — | 15 |
| 1979 | W | Kallie Knoetze | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1979 | W | Duane Bobick | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1978 | W | Ron Draper | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1978 | W | Roy Wallace | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1978 | W | Johnny Boudreaux | — | 10 |
| 1978 | W | Walter Santemore | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1978 | W | Bernardo Mercado | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1978 | W | Reinaldo Gorosito | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1978 | W | Harold Carter | — | 4 |
| 1978 | W | Leon Shaw | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1978 | W | James Dixon | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1977 | W | Charlie Jordan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Frank Schram | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Lou Esa | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1977 | W | Eddie Lopez | — | 6 |
| 1977 | W | Walter Santemore | — | 6 |
| 1977 | W | Baker Tinsley | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1977 | W | Norm Kues | — | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Jerry Thompkins | — | 5 |
6 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·John Tate (boxer) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.28%
80″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 80″ (203.2 cm) | 69th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 71st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1970s — 20 of 37 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
34–3
37 bouts on record
Finish rate
68%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 50th percentile
The career, bout by bout
37 recorded bouts from 1977 to 1988. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
1977–1988
Longest unbeaten run
20
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1978
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
37
37 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- DaVarryl Williamson+5.28% 80″ reach · 68th pct
- Al Cole+5.28% 80″ reach · 68th pct
- Danell Nicholson+5.28% 80″ reach · 68th pct
- Shannon Briggs+5.28% 80″ reach · 68th pct
- Oleg Maskaev+5.24% 79.1″ reach · 68th pct
- Obed Sullivan+5.35% 79″ reach · 69th pct
- Lenier Peró+5.35% 79″ reach · 69th pct
- Bob Foster+5.35% 79″ reach · 69th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is John Tate's record?
- 34–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 37 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 Tate sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1970s boxing20 of these bouts fall in the 1970s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
115 FIGHTERS John Tate vs Trevor BerbickA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1980 Longest unbeaten runsJohn Tate went 20 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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