Malik Scott
81″ reach · +6.58% reach advantage · 79th percentile
38–3–1
Malik Scott has a reach of 81″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +6.58%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 79th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Malik Scott — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | L | Sergei Kharitonov | — | 6 |
| 2016 | L | Luis Ortiz | Decision | 12 |
| 2015 | W | Tony Thompson | Decision | 10 |
| 2014 | W | Alex Leapai | Decision | 10 |
| 2014 | L | Deontay Wilder | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Grover Young | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Derek Chisora | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2013 | D | Vyacheslav Glazkov | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | W | Bowie Tupou | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2012 | W | Alvaro Morales | Decision | 6 |
| 2012 | W | Kendrick Releford | Decision | 8 |
| 2008 | W | Raphael Butler | Decision | 8 |
| 2008 | W | Arthur Cook | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2007 | W | Damian Norris | Decision | 10 |
| 2007 | W | Sedreck Fields | Decision | 4 |
| 2007 | W | Charles Shufford | Decision | 10 |
| 2007 | W | Ramon Hayes | Decision | 8 |
| 2006 | W | Andrew Greeley | Decision | 8 |
| 2006 | W | Marcus McGee | Decision | 8 |
| 2006 | W | Kendrick Releford | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | W | Dennis McKinney | Decision | 6 |
| 2005 | W | Shane Swartz | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | W | David Bostice | Decision | 8 |
| 2004 | W | Louis Monaco | Decision | 8 |
| 2004 | W | Drexie James | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Carlton Johnson | Decision | 8 |
| 2003 | W | Otis Tisdale | Decision | 8 |
| 2003 | W | Onebo Maxime | Decision | 6 |
| 2003 | W | Terry McGroom | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Ken Murphy | Decision | 8 |
| 2002 | W | Bryan Blakely | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Lyle McDowell | — | 7 |
| 2002 | W | Dan Ward | Decision | 8 |
| 2002 | W | Britton Thomas | — | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Curtis Taylor | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Ramon Hayes | Decision | 6 |
| 2001 | W | Louis Monaco | — | 6 |
| 2001 | W | Ron Brown | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Tracy Williams | Decision | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Robert Anderson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Maurice Wheeler | — | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Jackie Beard | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Tony Foster | — | 2 |
| undated | W | Arthur Cook | — | — |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Malik Scott — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.58%
81″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 81″ (205.7 cm) | 77th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 71st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 32 of 43 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
38–3
42 bouts on record
Finish rate
34%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 6th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
23y
2000–2022
Longest unbeaten run
35
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2002
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
43 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Ross Puritty+6.67% 80″ reach · 79th pct
- Charles Shufford+6.67% 80″ reach · 79th pct
- Mitch Green+6.49% 82″ reach · 78th pct
- Tony Tucker+6.49% 82″ reach · 78th pct
- Agit Kabayel+6.67% 80″ reach · 79th pct
- David Defiagbon+6.49% 82″ reach · 78th pct
- Félix Savón+6.49% 82″ reach · 78th pct
- Ken Norton+6.67% 80″ reach · 79th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Malik Scott's record?
- 38–3–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 45 bouts individually.
- How many of Malik Scott's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 45. 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 Scott sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing32 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Deontay Wilder vs Malik ScottA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2014 Longest unbeaten runsMalik Scott went 35 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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