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Heavyweight MMA

What heavyweight MMA fighters actually measure — 335 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+3.22%

Across the 335 heavyweight MMA fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 3.22% — a median reach of 77.1″ on a median height of 75″. 81% fight orthodox.

SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

Cohort profile

The division's shape

Median reach

77.1″

195.8 cm

Median height

75″

190.5 cm

Median reach advantage

3.22%

of body height

Median finish rate

85%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

335

140 with a reach on file

-4%heavyweight MMA reach advantage9.9%

Stance

  • orthodox81%
  • southpaw18%
  • switch1%

By era

  • 2000s124
  • 2010s119
  • 1990s45
  • 2020s36

By country

  • United States145
  • Brazil33
  • Russia25
  • Japan22
  • Kingdom of the Netherlands14
  • Poland13
  • Australia9
  • United Kingdom9
  • New Zealand6
  • Canada6

How this division is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under heavyweight MMA — 335 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Medians, not means — one outlier should not move the typical figure.
  4. A cohort is only published at 30 fighters or more. Below that a median is a rumour, so no page is emitted and nothing links to one.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Longest reach for the frame

heavyweight MMA — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Sergei Pavlovich84″75″+12.02%
2Mike Rodríguez82.5″75″+10.03%
3Butterbean78″71″+9.87%
4Francis Ngannou83″76″+9.22%
5Izu Ugonoh83.9″77.2″+8.67%
6Chris Barnett75″69″+8.67%
7Justin Willis79″73″+8.25%
8Antônio Silva82″76″+7.93%
9Kennedy Nzechukwu83″77″+7.77%
10Hongman Choi92.5″86.2″+7.31%
11James Toney74″69″+7.24%
12Matt Skelton80″75″+6.67%
13Juan Espino80″75″+6.67%
14Ovince Saint Preux80″75″+6.67%
15Soa Palelei81″76″+6.58%
16Ben Rothwell81″76″+6.58%
17Cheick Kongo81″76″+6.58%
18Jake Hager81″76″+6.58%
19Bob Sapp82″77″+6.49%
20Johnny Walker82″77″+6.49%
21Robelis Despaigne84″79″+6.33%
22Mariusz Pudzianowski77.6″73″+6.31%
23Renan Ferreira85″80″+6.25%
24Ray Mercer77″73″+5.5%
25Cain Velasquez77″73″+5.5%
26Jairzinho Rozenstruik78″74″+5.37%
27Jérôme Philippe Le Banner79″75″+5.35%
28Mick Parkin79″75″+5.35%
29Todd Duffee79″75″+5.35%
30Derrick Lewis79″75″+5.35%
31Corey Anderson79″75″+5.35%
32Frank Mir79″75″+5.35%
33Jared Vanderaa80″76″+5.28%
34Rodrigo Nascimento80″76″+5.28%
35Rolles Gracie80″76″+5.28%
36Curtis Blaydes80″76″+5.28%
37Stipe Miocic80″76″+5.28%
38Jiří Procházka80″76″+5.28%
39Adam Wieczorek81″77″+5.16%
40Juan Adams81″77″+5.16%

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SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

All 335 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many heavyweight MMA fighters have a reach on record?
140 of 335. Reach is stated in the English Wikipedia infobox for those and absent for the rest, so every reach figure on this page — including the median — describes only the 140. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for heavyweight MMA?
That the typical heavyweight MMA fighter's reach exceeds their height by 3.22% of that height. It is a ratio rather than a raw span, so it compares directly against any other cohort on this site — which a reach in inches does not. Half of these fighters are above it and half below; it is not a standard or a target.
Cross-references
Lightweight MMA

The nearest cohort in size to heavyweight MMA — 304 fighters against 335, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

304 FIGHTERS Welterweight boxing

The nearest cohort in size to heavyweight MMA — 304 fighters against 335, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

304 FIGHTERS By decade

Whether heavyweight MMA looks the way it does because of the weight or because of the decade — the same fighters, cut by when they actually fought.

16 DECADES Longest reach for the frame

The extremes this cohort's median is drawn from, ranked across all 2,650 fighters with a reach on file.

LEADERBOARD
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DATA · JUL 2026 amitsharma.co.nz

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