Mikkel Kessler
74″ reach · +1.62% reach advantage · 40th percentile
46–3
Mikkel Kessler has a reach of 74″ against a height of 72.8″ — a reach advantage of +1.62%, short for light heavyweight boxing and the 40th percentile of the 98 compared here.
SOURCE·Mikkel Kessler — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Carl Froch | Decision | 12 |
| 2012 | W | Brian Magee | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Allan Green | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2011 | W | Mehdi Bouadla | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2010 | W | Carl Froch | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | L | Andre Ward | — | 11 |
| 2009 | W | Gusmyr Perdomo | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2008 | W | Danilo Haussler | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Dimitri Sartison | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2007 | L | Joe Calzaghe | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Librado Andrade | Decision | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Markus Beyer | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Eric Lucas | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2005 | W | Anthony Mundine | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | W | Manny Siaca | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2004 | W | Andre Thysse | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2004 | W | Julio César Green | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Henry Porras | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2003 | W | Craig Cummings | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Dingaan Thobela | Decision | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Dean Williams | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Gerard Zdziarski | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2002 | W | Orlando Javier Acuna | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Arthur Allen | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Manny Sobral | — | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Fernando Hernández | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | David Mendez | Decision | 6 |
| 2001 | W | Rodrigues Moungo | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Miguel Julio | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Patrick Rubes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Tony Menefee | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2000 | W | Kevin Hall | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Tom Younan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Israel Ponce | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Charles Whittaker | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Sidney Mxoli Msutu | Decision | 6 |
| 1999 | W | Jean Paul D'Alessandro | Decision | 6 |
| 1999 | W | Jose Maquina Rojas | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Alejandro De Leon | Decision | 6 |
| 1999 | W | Jaime Balboa | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Dean Martin | Decision | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Anthony Ivory | Decision | 6 |
| 1998 | W | Edwin Murillo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Sammy Sparkman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Terry Clark | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Rick Stockton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Alex Lubo | — | 4 |
| 1998 | W | Michael Corleone | — | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Kelly Mays | — | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
16 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Mikkel Kessler — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.62%
74″ reach on a 72.8″ frame
Compared against 98 light heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 56th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72.8″ (185 cm) | 62nd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: super middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 31 of 49 dated bouts | |
| Country | Kingdom of Denmark |
Record
Boxing record
46–3
49 bouts on record
Finish rate
76%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight boxing median 58%, 86th percentile
The career, bout by bout
50 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
1998–2013
Longest unbeaten run
38
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1998
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
50
49 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Tony Sibson+1.75% 68.5″ reach · 41st pct
- Troy Ross+1.44% 72″ reach · 37th pct
- Paul James Smith Jr.+1.44% 72″ reach · 37th pct
- Aleksy Kuziemski+1.44% 72″ reach · 37th pct
- Blake Caparello+1.4% 74″ reach · 35th pct
- Rudy Markussen+1.4% 74″ reach · 35th pct
- Isaac Chilemba+1.37% 73″ reach · 33rd pct
- Joe Calzaghe+1.37% 73″ reach · 33rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Mikkel Kessler's record?
- 46–3 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 50 bouts individually.
- How many of Mikkel Kessler's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 50. 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 Kessler sits inside.
212 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing31 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Markus Beyer vs Mikkel KesslerA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2006 Longest unbeaten runsMikkel Kessler went 38 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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