reach vs height

Vitali has short reach for his height, but...

 

I would have to say Height .

Look at Mosley vs. Cotto .

Sugar had a 7 inche reach advantage against Cotto . It didnt help him win at all and he was badly outboxed by Miguel . Despite that advantage , Miguel prove he can still easily get to Shane .

Reach advantage dont really mean much IMO .

 

Reach with long reach you can fight tall.:deal

 

Reach all the way. Height will not help you inside the ring unless it is paired with reach.

 

a taller boxer leaning forward will be taggable to a boxer with longer reach 1st, by definition. the example you use is hardly a case of all else being equal. lovely avi, btw.

 

I think most of Rahman's reach was his wide chest, I doubt his arms are longer than Wlads.

 

height means nothing if you dont have the reach to establish distance. it doesn't mean anything if you have the reach, either. comparatively, reach wins out ten times out of ten. marvin hagler proved that, so did dwight braxton aka dwight muhammad qawi.

 

Well it doesn't really matter. The desire to win is much more important.

 

cotto was also the much better boxer, period.

so, in all honesty, neither height nor reach matter more than the ability to utilize one's tools.

 

Hmm, struggled? By virtually shutting them out on th judges cards??? Ok not a very good example...

On topic i would say reach.

 

Reach technically is from the armpit to the end of the fingers, or vertical reach, how high you can toch on flat feet. It seems this quote means to take both arms extended to the end of a fist, wxcising finger & chest length. Maybe this measure of reach is one that I am unfamilar with. WHERE can one find such statistics? I imagine Sonnt Liston's +11" ape factor was slightly less impressive if you took out his huge fingers & chest measurement.

But to the question at hand: it is pure folly to cite individual examples of successful fighters with varying reaches or wingspans & use that as evidence re: whether this factor is important. Of course reach is only one factor amongst so many to considr, & even if there is a strong correlation there would be many exceptions.

It seems that all other things being equal it makes a difference. Human beings on average have around exactly the same wingspan as height. Whether you look at the greatest boxers or the avage guy, they tend to have a wingspan several inches longer than average.

And it is not plausible that this is because this is from freakishly long fingers or shoulder width. Hence on averge it helps, though you can be champion or an ATG or ocasionaly a candidate for GOAT with an average reach.

 

Height. Tall guys can just lean back and be out of range. Long arms can still get you hit

 

Depends on how you use them, usually the more height/reach are immediate advantages in the heavyweight division...other divisions they come at the expense of weight so not as advantageous as Heavyweight... where reach and height are pretty much advantages unless you suck :dead