Pernell Whitaker
69″ reach · +4.59% reach advantage · 79th percentile
40–4–1
Pernell Whitaker has a reach of 69″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +4.59%, long for light middleweight boxing and the 79th percentile of the 78 compared here.
SOURCE·Pernell Whitaker — 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 78 light middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | L | Carlos Bojorquez | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1999 | L | Félix Trinidad | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | ? | Andrey Pestryayev | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | L | Oscar De La Hoya | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Diosbelys Hurtado | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1996 | W | Wilfredo Rivera | Decision | 12 |
| 1995 | W | Jake Rodríguez | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1995 | W | Gary Jacobs | Decision | 12 |
| 1995 | W | Julio César Vásquez | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | James McGirt | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | W | Santos Cardona | Decision | 12 |
| 1993 | D | Julio César Chávez | Draw | 12 |
| 1993 | W | James McGirt | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Ben Baez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Rafael Pineda | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Jerry Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Harold Brazier | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Jorge Páez | Decision | 12 |
| 1991 | W | Poli Díaz | Decision | 12 |
| 1991 | W | Anthony Jones | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Benjie Marquez | Decision | 10 |
| 1990 | W | Juan Nazario | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Azumah Nelson | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Freddie Pendleton | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Martin Galvan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | José Luis Ramírez | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Louie Lomeli | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Greg Haugen | Decision | 12 |
| 1988 | W | Antonio Carter | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1988 | L | Jose Luis Ramírez | — | 12 |
| 1987 | W | Davey Montana | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1987 | W | Miguel Santana | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1987 | W | Jim Flores | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1987 | W | Roger Mayweather | Decision | 12 |
| 1986 | W | Alfredo Layne | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Rafael Gandarilla | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | Rafael Williams | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | W | John Montes | Decision | 10 |
| 1985 | W | Jesus De la Cruz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1985 | W | Teddy Hatfield | — | 3 |
| 1985 | W | John Senegal | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1985 | W | Nick Parker | — | 6 |
| 1985 | W | Mike Golden | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1985 | W | Danny Avery | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1984 | W | Farrain Comeaux | — | 2 |
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Pernell Whitaker — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.59%
69″ reach on a 66″ frame
Compared against 78 light middleweight boxing fighters. Median 2.87%.
| Reach | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 18th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 3rd pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Light Middleweight Boxing competed at 4: lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight, light middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 23 of 45 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
40–4
46 bouts on record
Finish rate
43%
of wins ended inside the distance — light middleweight boxing median 63%, 19th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 1984 to 2001. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
1984–2001
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1985
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
45 with a date
Closest in build
light middleweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Eddie Gazo+4.59% 69″ reach · 79th pct
- Acelino Freitas+4.59% 69″ reach · 79th pct
- Vince Phillips+4.47% 70″ reach · 78th pct
- Ike Quartey+4.4% 71″ reach · 77th pct
- Jesús Soto Karass+4.34% 72″ reach · 71st pct
- Josesito Lopez+4.34% 72″ reach · 71st pct
- Carson Jones+4.34% 72″ reach · 71st pct
- Carlos Quintana+4.34% 72″ reach · 71st pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Pernell Whitaker's record?
- 40–4–1 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 161 light middleweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Whitaker sits inside.
161 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing23 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Alfredo Layne vs Pernell WhitakerA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1986 Longest unbeaten runsPernell Whitaker went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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