Zolani Petelo
68″ reach · +3.04% reach advantage · 53rd percentile
17–5–2
Zolani Petelo has a reach of 68″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +3.04%, average for light flyweight boxing and the 53rd percentile of the 36 compared here.
SOURCE·Zolani Petelo — 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 36 light flyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | L | Nkosana Sobethu | Decision | 8 |
| 2005 | L | Zolile Mbityi | Decision | 8 |
| 2001 | L | Ricardo Lopez | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2001 | W | Roberto Gomez | Decision | 8 |
| 2000 | W | Mickey Cantwell | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 1999 | W | Juanito Rubillar | Decision | 12 |
| 1999 | W | Eric Jamili | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Carmelo Caceres | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1998 | W | Faisol Akbar | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | Ratanapol Sor Vorapin | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1997 | W | Mnyamezeli Shosha | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1997 | L | Neo Seboka | Decision | 8 |
| 1996 | L | Lindi Memani | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1996 | W | Xola Made | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1996 | W | Mawanda Sineko | Decision | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Kholisile Nyanda | Decision | 8 |
| 1994 | W | Xolani Sithhole | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1994 | D | Zolile Ngantweni | Decision | 8 |
| 1994 | D | Fezile Ngalo | Decision | 8 |
| 1993 | W | Butana Kate | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1993 | W | Joseph Nimrod | Decision | 6 |
| 1993 | W | Goodman Nketyana | — | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Sifundo Nyoka | Decision | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Xola Made | — | 4 |
4 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Zolani Petelo — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.04%
68″ reach on a 66″ frame
Compared against 36 light flyweight boxing fighters. Median 1.84%.
| Reach | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 81st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 87th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Light Flyweight Boxing competed at 2: mini flyweight, light flyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 19 of 24 dated bouts | |
| Country | South Africa |
Record
Boxing record
17–5
24 bouts on record
Finish rate
53%
of wins ended inside the distance — light flyweight boxing median 53%, 49th percentile
The career, bout by bout
24 recorded bouts from 1993 to 2005. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
1993–2005
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1993
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
24
24 with a date
Closest in build
light flyweight boxing fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Nelson Dieppa+3.07% 66.1″ reach · 56th pct
- Sivenathi Nontshinga+3.09% 67″ reach · 58th pct
- Erick Rosa+3.19% 65″ reach · 61st pct
- Alex Sánchez+3.24% 64″ reach · 64th pct
- Ramón García Hirales+3.45% 70.9″ reach · 67th pct
- Pornsawan Porpramook+1.91% 63″ reach · 50th pct
- Jacob Matlala+1.77% 59″ reach · 47th pct
- Knockout CP Freshmart+1.64% 61″ reach · 44th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Zolani Petelo's record?
- 17–5–2 in boxing. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 24 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 103 light flyweight boxing fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Petelo sits inside.
103 FIGHTERS 1990s boxing19 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
307 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsZolani Petelo went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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