Tony Tubbs
79″ reach · +5.63% reach advantage · 74th percentile
47–10
Tony Tubbs has a reach of 79″ against a height of 74.8″ — a reach advantage of +5.63%, above average for heavyweight boxing and the 74th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Tony Tubbs — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
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 2026-07-25. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | W | Adam Smith | Decision | 6 |
| 2006 | W | Jason Waller | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2005 | W | Danny Wofford | Decision | 6 |
| 2004 | W | Brian Minto | — | 10 |
| 2004 | W | Brian Sargent | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Abraham Okine | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2003 | L | Gilbert Martinez | Decision | 10 |
| 2002 | W | Michael Shanks | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Mario Oscar Melo | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1995 | L | Brian Nielsen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1995 | L | Alexander Zolkin | Decision | 12 |
| 1995 | W | Andre Crowder | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | L | Jimmy Thunder | Decision | 12 |
| 1994 | N | William Morris | Decision | 10 |
| 1994 | W | Everett Martin | Decision | 10 |
| 1993 | W | Willie Jackson | Decision | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Tyrell Biggs | Decision | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Jose Ribalta | Decision | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Daniel Dăncuță | Decision | 3 |
| 1993 | L | Jimmy Ellis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Melton Bowen | Decision | 10 |
| 1993 | W | Alexander Zolkin | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Jesse Ferguson | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Bruce Seldon | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | L | Lionel Butler | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Leon Taylor | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1991 | L | Riddick Bowe | Decision | 10 |
| 1990 | W | Lawrence Carter | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Mike Cohen | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1989 | ? | Orlin Norris | Decision | 12 |
| 1989 | W | Ladislao Mijangos | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1989 | W | Eddie Richardson | — | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Mike Evans | Decision | 10 |
| 1988 | L | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1987 | W | Eddie Gonzales | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1987 | W | Jerry Halstead | Decision | 10 |
| 1987 | W | Mike Jameson | Decision | 10 |
| 1986 | L | Tim Witherspoon | — | 15 |
| 1985 | W | Greg Page | Decision | 15 |
| 1985 | W | James Smith | Decision | 10 |
| 1985 | W | Tim Miller | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1984 | W | Jerry Williams | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1984 | W | Tom Trimm | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1983 | W | Gordon Racette | Decision | 10 |
| 1983 | W | Jimmy Young | Decision | 10 |
| 1983 | W | Larry Givens | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1982 | W | Steve Zouski | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1982 | W | Clarence Hill | Decision | 10 |
| 1982 | W | Clayman Parker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Baker Tinsley | — | 3 |
| 1981 | W | Don Halpin | — | 8 |
| 1981 | W | Jesse Brown | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1981 | W | Dennis Wimberly | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1980 | W | Mike Creel | — | 3 |
| 1980 | W | Larry Sims | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1980 | W | John L Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1980 | W | Ron Draper | — | 6 |
| 1980 | W | Bruce Scott | — | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
18 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Tony Tubbs — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.63%
79″ reach on a 74.8″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 79″ (200.7 cm) | 61st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74.8″ (190 cm) | 54th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 29 of 58 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
47–10
59 bouts on record
Finish rate
53%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 23rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
59 recorded bouts from 1980 to 2006. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
27y
1980–2006
Longest unbeaten run
20
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1993
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
59
58 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Archie Moore+5.66% 75″ reach · 75th pct
- Leotis Martin+5.52% 76″ reach · 73rd pct
- Billy Miske+5.52% 76″ reach · 73rd pct
- Marvis Frazier+5.52% 76″ reach · 73rd pct
- John Conteh MBE+5.52% 76″ reach · 73rd pct
- Gene Tunney+5.52% 76″ reach · 73rd pct
- John L. Sullivan+5.74% 74″ reach · 75th pct
- Marion Wilson+5.5% 77″ reach · 72nd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Tony Tubbs's record?
- 47–10 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 59 bouts individually.
- How many of Tony Tubbs's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 59. 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 Tubbs sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing29 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS Riddick Bowe vs Tony TubbsA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1991 Longest unbeaten runsTony Tubbs went 20 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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