Tony Tucker
82″ reach · +6.49% reach advantage · 78th percentile
57–7
Tony Tucker has a reach of 82″ against a height of 77″ — a reach advantage of +6.49%, long for heavyweight boxing and the 78th percentile of the 317 compared here.
SOURCE·Tony Tucker — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | W | Billy Wright | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | L | John Ruiz | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 1997 | W | Jerry Haynes | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Abdul Muhaymin | Decision | 10 |
| 1997 | L | Herbie Hide | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Tyrone Campbell | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1996 | W | David Dixon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Orlin Norris | — | 10 |
| 1995 | L | Henry Akinwande | Decision | 10 |
| 1995 | L | Bruce Seldon | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1994 | W | Dan Murphy | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1994 | W | Cecil Coffee | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | W | George Stephens | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | David Graves | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | L | Lennox Lewis | Decision | 12 |
| 1992 | W | Frankie Swindell | — | 6 |
| 1992 | W | Paul Poirier | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1992 | W | Everett Martin | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Oliver McCall | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Jesus Contreras | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1992 | W | Mike Faulkner | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1992 | W | Kimmuel Odum | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1991 | W | Orlin Norris | — | 12 |
| 1991 | W | James Ray Thomas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Lionel Washington | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Mike Rouse | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1990 | W | Mike Evans | Decision | 10 |
| 1990 | W | Calvin Jones | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1989 | W | Dino Homsey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1987 | L | Mike Tyson | Decision | 12 |
| 1987 | W | Buster Douglas | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1986 | W | James Broad | Decision | 12 |
| 1986 | W | Otis Bates | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1986 | W | Eddie Richardson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1985 | W | David Jaco | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1985 | W | Bobby Crabtree | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1984 | W | Danny Sutton | Decision | 10 |
| 1984 | W | O. T. Davis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1984 | W | Jimmy Young | — | 10 |
| 1984 | W | Eddie Lopez | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1984 | W | Dave Johnson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1984 | W | Walter Santemore | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1984 | W | Sam Jeter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1984 | W | Larry Givens | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1983 | W | James Dixon | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1983 | W | Lynwood Jones | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1983 | W | James Holly | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | ? | Danny Sutton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1982 | W | Richard Cade | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1982 | W | Lupe Guerra | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1982 | W | James Dixon | — | 8 |
| 1982 | W | Charles Atlas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1982 | W | Grady Daniels | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1981 | W | Frank Farmer | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1981 | W | Harvey Steichen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1981 | W | Jerry Hunter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1981 | W | Chip Tyler | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1981 | W | Al Jones | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1981 | W | Robert Evans | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1981 | W | Willie Kents | KO/TKO | 1 |
Showing 60 of 64 recorded bouts, most recent first.
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Tony Tucker — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.49%
82″ reach on a 77″ frame
Compared against 317 heavyweight boxing fighters. Median 3.99%.
| Reach | 82″ (208.3 cm) | 83rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 82nd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight Boxing | |
| Most active decade | 1980s — 36 of 64 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
Boxing record
57–7
65 bouts on record
Finish rate
82%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight boxing median 68%, 82nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
64 recorded bouts from 1980 to 1998. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1980–1998
Longest unbeaten run
32
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1981
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
64
64 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Mitch Green+6.49% 82″ reach · 78th pct
- David Defiagbon+6.49% 82″ reach · 78th pct
- Félix Savón+6.49% 82″ reach · 78th pct
- Jack O'Halloran+6.46% 83″ reach · 77th pct
- Carlos Negrón+6.41% 83″ reach · 77th pct
- Malik Scott+6.58% 81″ reach · 79th pct
- Sam McVey+6.37% 75″ reach · 77th pct
- Gary Cornish+6.33% 84″ reach · 76th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Tony Tucker's record?
- 57–7 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 64 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 Tucker sits inside.
605 FIGHTERS 1980s boxing36 of these bouts fall in the 1980s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
205 FIGHTERS John Ruiz vs Tony TuckerA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1998 Longest unbeaten runsTony Tucker went 32 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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