Longest reach P4P?

Mosley's up there. He has a 74 inch (188 cm) reach.

Caballero is very rangy.

It's crazy that Williams has a longer wingspan than most HW champions in history.

If he learned to properly use his height and reach he'd be so damn good, but also probably really boring to watch.

 

yeah williams is a genetic freak. i cant remember a welter being 6'2" with his wingspan. its almost comical to imagine that he could actually put on enough bulk, over time, to compete in the super middleweight regions. its not out of the realm of possibllity. truly a p4p definition.

whats interesting is that reach often goes hand in hand with boxing success. its similar to basketball, in that having long arms is often the difference between being good and great. look at a point guard like iverson whose long arms enabled him to get his shot off for a good 10 years in the league. if you had to build a boxer, next to the mental aspects of course, physically reach would be right up there next to speed in terms of most valuable assets a fighter can have. of course it depends on how you use it, tyson, fraizer, inside guys use their short arms to an advantage with hooking and so on.

 

Wingspan isn't reach though, is it? You need the length of their arms as your measurement. If you have broad shoulders it means you have a shorter reach than someone with the same wingspan and narrow shoulders.

 

Kessler only have average reach compared to height. 185 height and 185 reach. Nothing special there

 

It's even stranger if you imagine him growing through weight classes healthily he could end up at Heavyweight, close to Haye and Adamek in terms of height!

 

jimmy bivins

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5'9, 77' reach

 

Considering Caballero has 8 CM more reach than John in the same weight class (which he just moved up to), I'd guess he wins.

 

If you'd done a DNA test on that guy it'd come out more ape than human.

(That's a comment on the length of his arms, not the color of his skin, and if you still feel it's racist on account of black folks have longer arms I don't care, the joke is not mean spirited.)

 

smooth....

 

i think you explaining your joke makes it sounds more racist than it did before.

 

Actually, the stats in the first post don't make sense to me, you said you're dividing height by weight, for example Floyd Mayweather gives us 183/147. Yet you say the result of that is 124.5.

Can someone explain how on earth 183 divided by 147 is 124.5?! it should be about 1.4, off the top of my head.

 

183 / 147 * 100 = 124.5

It's interesting but of course doesn't make much sense since an average HW doesn't have twice as long reach as an average flyweight just because he weighs twice as much. Nor he's twice taller. There's not much of a difference for example between minimumweight Nkosinathi Joyi's (172cm) and heavyweight David Tua's (178cm) reach and they are 17 divisions apart.

Joyi would "win" this comparation with his 172/105*100 = 163.8

 

fail, u didnt even mention cunninghum. (208cm)

 

Both matter I think. Of course arm length is important but when you fight, you're more sideways anyway (or are supposed to be), to present a smaller target. If your body is wide, then it adds some extra distance for your opponent to reach your head.