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Welterweight MMA

What welterweight MMA fighters actually measure — 302 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+2.79%

Across the 302 welterweight MMA fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 2.79% — a median reach of 73″ on a median height of 71″. 63% fight orthodox.

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

Cohort profile

The division's shape

Median reach

73″

185.4 cm

Median height

71″

180.3 cm

Median reach advantage

2.79%

of body height

Median finish rate

73%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

302

174 with a reach on file

-2.7%welterweight MMA reach advantage8.6%

Stance

  • orthodox63%
  • southpaw35%
  • switch2%

By era

  • 2010s179
  • 2000s92
  • 2020s23
  • 1990s2

By country

  • United States123
  • Brazil37
  • Russia23
  • Japan19
  • Canada13
  • United Kingdom11
  • Australia6
  • Poland6
  • Ireland5
  • France5

How this division is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under welterweight MMA — 302 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

welterweight MMA — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Paul Daley76″69″+10.1%
2Adlan Amagov77.6″70.9″+9.44%
3Conor McGregor74″68″+8.86%
4Christian Lee76″70″+8.55%
5Ramazan Emeev Рамазан Эмеев76″70″+8.55%
6Karo Parisyan75.5″70″+7.87%
7Jeremiah Wells74″69″+7.24%
8Chris Curtis75″70″+7.14%
9Court McGee76″71″+7.04%
10Max Griffin76″71″+7.04%
11Alex Oliveira76″71″+7.04%
12Khaos Williams77″72″+6.94%
13Jason Jackson78″73″+6.85%
14Cezar Ferreira78″73″+6.85%
15Carlos Prates78″73″+6.85%
16Rodrigo Vargas71.5″67″+6.7%
17Philip Rowe80″75″+6.67%
18Maki Pitolo73.5″69″+6.5%
19Ania Fucz70″66″+6.09%
20Jamie Varner72″68″+5.91%
21Albert Tumenov73″69″+5.76%
22Goiti Yamauchi74″70″+5.74%
23Mason Jones74″70″+5.74%
24Kenny Robertson74″70″+5.74%
25Myktybek Orolbai74″70″+5.74%
26Charles Oliveira74″70″+5.74%
27Geoff Neal75″71″+5.66%
28Carlston Harris76″72″+5.52%
29Niko Price76″72″+5.52%
30Nate Diaz76″72″+5.52%
31Dustin Hazelett77″73″+5.5%
32Igor Araújo77″73″+5.5%
33Gerald Meerschaert77″73″+5.5%
34Krzysztof Jotko77″73″+5.5%
35Jack Hermansson77″73″+5.5%
36Shavkat Rakhmonov77″73″+5.5%
37Bojan Veličković75.6″71.7″+5.49%
38Anthony Johnson78″74″+5.37%
39Kurt Pellegrino71.5″68″+5.15%
40Nicolas Dalby74.5″71″+4.94%

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

All 302 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many welterweight MMA fighters have a reach on record?
174 of 302. 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 174. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for welterweight MMA?
That the typical welterweight MMA fighter's reach exceeds their height by 2.79% 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 welterweight MMA — 304 fighters against 302, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

304 FIGHTERS Welterweight boxing

The nearest cohort in size to welterweight MMA — 304 fighters against 302, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

304 FIGHTERS By decade

Whether welterweight 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.

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DATA · JUL 2026 amitsharma.co.nz

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