Bob Sapp
82″ reach · +6.49% reach advantage · 86th percentile
12–19
Bob Sapp has a reach of 82″ against a height of 77″ — a reach advantage of +6.49%, long for heavyweight MMA and the 86th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Bob Sapp — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-22
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 2026-07-22. 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 140 heavyweight MMA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | W | Jon Nutt and Woody | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Ōsunaarashi Kintarō | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Selcuk Ustabasi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | L | Grégory Tony | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | L | Aorigele | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Akebono | Decision | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Edson França | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Alexander Emelianenko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Yōsuke Nishijima | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Taishan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Dusan Panajotovic | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Kim Jong-dae | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | L | Tolegen Akylbekov | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Soa Palelei | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Mariusz Pudzianowski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | James Thompson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Rolles Gracie Jr. | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Rok Štrucl | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Tofan Pirani | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Alexander Otsuka | DQ | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Maro Perak | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Attila Uçar | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Stav Economou | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Alexandru Lungu | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Florian Pavic | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Tivadar Kunkli | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Masayoshi Kakutani | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Sascha Weinpolter | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Jörgen Kruth | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Bobby Lashley | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Ikuhisa Minowa | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Patrice Quarteron | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Alain Ngalani | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Akihito Tanaka | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Jan Nortje | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Bobby Ologun | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Peter Aerts | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Kim Jong-wang | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Alan Karaev | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Kim Min-soo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Choi Hong-man | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Tatsufumi Tomihira | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Hiraku Hori | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Yoshihiro Nakao | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Kazuyuki Fujita | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Dolgorsürengiin Sumyaabazar | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | D | Jérôme Le Banner | Decision | 4 |
| 2004 | L | Ray Sefo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Tommy Glanville | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Seth Petruzelli | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Stefan Gamlin | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Remy Bonjasky | DQ | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Kimo Leopoldo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Yoshihiro Takayama | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Submission | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Kiyoshi Tamura | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Ernesto Hoost | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 64 recorded bouts, most recent first.
26 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Bob Sapp — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-22
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.49%
82″ reach on a 77″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 82″ (208.3 cm) | 91st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 83rd pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 33 of 62 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
12–19
31 bouts on record
Finish rate
92%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 64th percentile
The career, bout by bout
64 recorded bouts from 2002 to 2023. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
2002–2023
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2012
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
64
62 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Bob Sapp competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 12 | 19 | 8 |
| Kickboxing | 12 | 19 | 9 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Johnny Walker+6.49% 82″ reach · 86th pct
- Soa Palelei+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Ben Rothwell+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Cheick Kongo+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Jake Hager+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Robelis Despaigne+6.33% 84″ reach · 85th pct
- Matt Skelton+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Juan Espino+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Bob Sapp's record?
- 12–19 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 64 bouts individually.
- How many of Bob Sapp's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 64. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- 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 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sapp sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA33 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Bob Sapp vs Mariusz PudzianowskiA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2012 Longest unbeaten runsBob Sapp went 5 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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