Orlin Norris
70″ reach · +1.43% reach advantage · 27th percentile
57–10–1
Orlin Norris has a reach of 70″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of +1.43%, short for heavyweight boxing and the 27th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Orlin Norris — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | L | Ola Afolabi | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2005 | D | Vassiliy Jirov | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | L | Albert Sosnowski | Decision | 8 |
| 2004 | W | Ken Murphy | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2004 | W | Mike Peak | Decision | 8 |
| 2004 | W | Roberto Coelho | Decision | 8 |
| 2003 | W | Troy Weida | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Harry Funmaker | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2001 | L | Brian Nielsen | Decision | 12 |
| 2001 | W | Brian Yates | Decision | 8 |
| 2001 | L | Vitali Klitschko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Bradley Rone | Decision | 10 |
| 2000 | L | Andrew Golota | Decision | 10 |
| 1999 | N | Mike Tyson | — | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Pelé Reid | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Nate Miller | Decision | 12 |
| 1998 | W | Adolpho Washington | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | L | Henry Akinwande | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Marion Wilson | Decision | 10 |
| 1996 | W | Jeff Pegues | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Tony Tucker | Decision | 10 |
| 1996 | W | Cleveland Woods | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1995 | L | Nate Miller | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Adolpho Washington | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | James Heath | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | Arthur Williams | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Art Jimmerson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Marcelo Victor Figueroa | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1993 | W | Jack Basting | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Richard Mason | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Troy Jefferson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1992 | W | David Sewell | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1992 | W | Keith McMurray | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1992 | W | Anthony Hembrick | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1991 | W | James Pritchard | Decision | 8 |
| 1991 | W | Jesse Shelby | — | 10 |
| 1991 | L | Tony Tucker | Decision | 12 |
| 1991 | W | Lionel Washington | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Jamie Howe | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1990 | W | Tony Willis | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1990 | W | Oliver McCall | Decision | 10 |
| 1990 | W | Henry Hearns | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Greg Gorrell | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1990 | W | Danny Wofford | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1990 | L | Bert Cooper | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1989 | N | Tony Tubbs | — | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Dee Collier | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Greg Page | Decision | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Jesse Ferguson | Decision | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Dwain Bonds | Decision | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Andrew Stokes | Decision | 10 |
| 1988 | W | Renaldo Snipes | Decision | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Woody Clark | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Larry Alexander | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | W | Billy Joe Thomas | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1987 | W | John Barbier | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Gary Lightbourne | Decision | 10 |
| 1987 | W | Eddie Richardson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | W | Avery Rawls | Decision | 10 |
| 1987 | W | Mike Gans | KO/TKO | 7 |
Showing 60 of 71 recorded bouts, most recent first.
24 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Orlin Norris — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.43%
70″ reach on a 69″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 2nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 3rd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing competed at 2: cruiserweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 32 of 69 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
57–10
70 bouts on record
Finish rate
53%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 22nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
71 recorded bouts from 1986 to 2005. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
20y
1986–2005
Longest unbeaten run
23
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1987
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
71
69 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Yvon Durelle+1.43% 70″ reach · 27th pct
- Stanley Ketchel+1.43% 70″ reach · 27th pct
- Lionel Butler+1.44% 72″ reach · 28th pct
- Jose Roman+1.41% 71″ reach · 26th pct
- Mike Tyson+1.41% 71″ reach · 26th pct
- Alen Babić+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
- Amir Mansour+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
- Iran Barkley+1.4% 74″ reach · 25th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Orlin Norris's record?
- 57–10–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 71 bouts individually.
- How many of Orlin Norris's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 71. 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 Norris sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing32 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Orlin Norris vs Vassiliy JirovA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2005 Longest unbeaten runsOrlin Norris went 23 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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