Riddick Bowe
81″ reach · +5.16% reach advantage · 67th percentile
43–1
Riddick Bowe has a reach of 81″ against a height of 77″ — a reach advantage of +5.16%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 67th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Riddick Bowe — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | W | Gene Pukall | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | W | Billy Zumbrun | — | 10 |
| 2004 | W | Marcus Rhode | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Andrew Golota | DQ | 9 |
| 1995 | W | Evander Holyfield | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Jorge Luis González | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1995 | W | Herbie Hide | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1994 | W | Larry Donald | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | ? | Buster Mathis Jr. | — | 4 |
| 1993 | L | Evander Holyfield | — | 12 |
| 1993 | W | Jesse Ferguson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Michael Dokes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Evander Holyfield | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Pierre Coetzer | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1992 | W | Everett Martin | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1992 | W | Conroy Nelson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Elijah Tillery | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1991 | W | Bruce Seldon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Philipp Brown | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1991 | W | Rodolfo Marin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1991 | W | Tony Tubbs | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Tyrell Biggs | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1990 | W | Tony Morrison | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Bert Cooper | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Pinklon Thomas | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1990 | W | Art Tucker | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1990 | W | Jesus Contreras | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Eddie Gonzales | Decision | 8 |
| 1990 | W | Robert Colay | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Mike Robinson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Charles Woolard | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Art Card | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Don Askew | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Garing Lane | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1989 | W | Mike Acey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Earl Lewis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Anthony Hayes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Lee Moore | — | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Lorenzo Canady | — | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Antonio Whiteside | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Tracy Thomas | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Lionel Butler | — | 2 |
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Riddick Bowe — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.16%
81″ reach on a 77″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 81″ (205.7 cm) | 77th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 82nd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 27 of 42 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
43–1
45 bouts on record
Finish rate
77%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 70th percentile
The career, bout by bout
42 recorded bouts from 1989 to 2008. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
20y
1989–2008
Longest unbeaten run
30
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1989
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
42
42 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Patrice L'Heureux+5.16% 81″ reach · 67th pct
- Derrick Jefferson+5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
- Gerald Washington+5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
- Jameel McCline+5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
- Martin Bakole+5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
- Ernie Terrell+5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
- Anthony Joshua+5.15% 82″ reach · 65th pct
- Oleg Maskaev+5.24% 79.1″ reach · 68th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Riddick Bowe's record?
- 43–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 42 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 Bowe sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing27 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Michael Dokes vs Riddick BoweA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1993 Longest unbeaten runsRiddick Bowe went 30 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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