Leon Spinks
76″ reach · +4.1% reach advantage · 56th percentile
26–17–3
Leon Spinks has a reach of 76″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +4.1%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 56th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Leon Spinks — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | L | Fred Houpe | Decision | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Ray Kipping | Decision | 8 |
| 1994 | L | John Carlo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | L | Shane Sutcliffe | Decision | 8 |
| 1994 | W | Eddie Curry | — | 9 |
| 1993 | L | James Wilder | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Kevin Poindexter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | L | Kevin Porter | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Jack Jackson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1992 | W | Rocky Bentley | — | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Rick Myers | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Andre Crowder | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Lupe Guerra | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1988 | L | Tony Morrison | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1988 | L | Randall Cobb | — | 10 |
| 1987 | L | Ladislao Mijangos | Decision | 10 |
| 1987 | L | Terry Mims | Decision | 10 |
| 1987 | D | Jim Ashard | Decision | 10 |
| 1987 | L | Angelo Musone | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1987 | W | Jeff Jordan | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | L | José Ribalta | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1986 | L | Rocky Sekorski | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1986 | L | Dwight Muhammad Qawi | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1985 | W | Kip Kane | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1985 | W | Tom Franco Thomas | Decision | 10 |
| 1985 | W | Tom Fischer | Decision | 10 |
| 1985 | W | Rick Kellar | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1985 | W | Lupe Guerra | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1983 | L | Carlos de León | — | 6 |
| 1982 | W | Jesse Burnett | Decision | 12 |
| 1982 | W | Ivy Brown | Decision | 10 |
| 1981 | L | Larry Holmes | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1980 | W | Bernardo Mercado | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1980 | W | Kevin Isaac | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1980 | D | Eddie López | Decision | 10 |
| 1980 | W | Alfredo Evangelista | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1979 | L | Gerrie Coetzee | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1978 | L | Muhammad Ali | Decision | 15 |
| 1977 | W | Alfio Righetti | — | 10 |
| 1977 | D | Scott LeDoux | Draw | 10 |
| 1977 | W | Bruce Scott | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1977 | W | Pedro Agosto | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Jerry McIntyre | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Peter Freeman | — | 1 |
| 1977 | W | Bob Smith | — | 5 |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Leon Spinks — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.1%
76″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 76″ (193 cm) | 32nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 27th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: cruiserweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 23 of 45 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
26–17
46 bouts on record
Finish rate
54%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 24th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 1977 to 1995. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1977–1995
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1977
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
45 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Mike Perez+4.1% 76″ reach · 56th pct
- Jimmy Ellis+4.1% 76″ reach · 56th pct
- Max Schmeling+4.1% 76″ reach · 56th pct
- Jake Paul+4.1% 76″ reach · 56th pct
- Junior Fa+4.08% 80.3″ reach · 56th pct
- Kubrat Pulev Кубрат Пулев+4.07% 79.5″ reach · 56th pct
- Andrew Golota+4.15% 79.1″ reach · 58th pct
- Jesse Ferguson+4.04% 77″ reach · 53rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Leon Spinks's record?
- 26–17–3 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 Spinks sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing23 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Leon Spinks vs Randall "Tex" CobbA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
HEAD TO HEAD Longest unbeaten runsLeon Spinks went 6 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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