Vusi Malinga
70.9″ reach · +5.88% reach advantage · 82nd percentile
21–6–1
Vusi Malinga has a reach of 70.9″ against a height of 66.9″ — a reach advantage of +5.88%, long for super bantamweight boxing and the 82nd percentile of the 66 compared here.
SOURCE·Vusi Malinga — 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 66 super bantamweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | L | Gavin McDonnell | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | L | Stuart Hall | Decision | 12 |
| 2013 | W | Diarh Gabutan | Decision | 12 |
| 2012 | L | Léo Santa Cruz | Decision | 12 |
| 2010 | W | Michael Domingo | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Fadhili Majiha | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Hozumi Hasegawa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Veeraphol Sahaprom | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2007 | W | Sergio Victor Caruso | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2007 | W | Alberto Rossel | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2007 | D | Jerope Mercado | Draw | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Andrey Kostin | Decision | 12 |
| 2005 | W | Nkosinathi Tshinavhe | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 2004 | W | Siyabonga Nyanga | — | 12 |
| 2004 | W | Joel Bauya | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Lindile Somthi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Siyabonga Nyanga | — | 12 |
| 2002 | W | Zolani Msolo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Cedric Conway | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Moses Malebye | Decision | 10 |
| 2001 | W | Mzwandile Zangqa | — | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Alfred Sebaka | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2001 | W | Elias Skosana | Decision | 6 |
| 2001 | W | Jacob Mohlabi | Decision | 6 |
| 2001 | W | Bethuel Machedi | — | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Sonnyboy Magazi | Decision | 4 |
| 2000 | W | Sekete Kolisang | Decision | 4 |
| 2000 | L | Godfrey Takalani | — | 4 |
6 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Vusi Malinga — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.88%
70.9″ reach on a 66.9″ frame
Compared against 66 super bantamweight boxing fighters. Median 3.02%.
| Reach | 70.9″ (180 cm) | 85th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66.9″ (170 cm) | 68th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Super Bantamweight Boxing competed at 2: bantamweight, super bantamweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 23 of 28 dated bouts | |
| Country | South Africa |
Record
Boxing record
21–6
28 bouts on record
Finish rate
57%
of wins ended inside the distance — super bantamweight boxing median 54%, 55th percentile
The career, bout by bout
28 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2000–2014
Longest unbeaten run
18
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
28
28 with a date
Closest in build
super bantamweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Juan Carlos Sánchez Jr.+5.91% 72″ reach · 83rd pct
- Efrain Esquivias Jr.+5.95% 70.1″ reach · 85th pct
- Mike Ayala+6.09% 70″ reach · 86th pct
- Eric Morel+6.09% 70″ reach · 86th pct
- Francisco "Paco" Rodríguez+5.45% 68.5″ reach · 80th pct
- Anselmo Moreno+5.36% 69.7″ reach · 79th pct
- Ryosuke Iwasa+5.26% 70.9″ reach · 77th pct
- César Figueroa+4.71% 70.1″ reach · 76th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Vusi Malinga's record?
- 21–6–1 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 28 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 143 super bantamweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Malinga sits inside.
143 FIGHTERS 2000s boxing23 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
481 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsVusi Malinga went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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