Brian Foster
73″ reach · +4.27% reach advantage · 71st percentile
29–11
Brian Foster has a reach of 73″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +4.27%, above average for lightweight MMA and the 71st percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·Brian Foster (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-12-30
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 2025-12-30. 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 161 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | L | Evan Cutts | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2024 | W | Roderick Stewart | Submission | 2 |
| 2020 | W | Cliff Wright | Submission | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Amirkhan Adaev | DQ | 2 |
| 2019 | L | Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov | Submission | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Ramsey Nijem | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Jon Fitch | Submission | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Luiz Firmino | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | L | Justin Gaethje | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | João Zeferino | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | LaRue Burley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Marcio Navarro | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Jake Shields | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Gilbert Smith | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Rodrigo Soria | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Mitch Whitesel | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | James Wood | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Daniel Roberts | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | LaVerne Clark | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Jack Mason | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Matt Brown | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Forrest Petz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Chris Lytle | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Brock Larson | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | L | Rick Story | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Kyle Baker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Mike Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Nathan Coy | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Diego Brandão | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Douglas Edwards | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Nuri Shakir | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Ken Jackson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Phet Phongsavane | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Derik Bolton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Steve Carl | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | James Inhoff | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Jeff Davis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | TJ Waldburger | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Deric Harris | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | W | Luis Palomino | KO/TKO | — |
| undated | L | João Zeferino | Submission | — |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Brian Foster (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-12-30
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.27%
73″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 74th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 58th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 2: welterweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 20 of 39 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
29–11
40 bouts on record
Finish rate
97%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 95th percentile
The career, bout by bout
41 recorded bouts from 2006 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2006–2024
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
41
39 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Brian Foster competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 29 | 11 | 15 |
| Kickboxing | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Jorge Masvidal+4.27% 74″ reach · 71st pct
- Brad Blackburn+4.27% 73″ reach · 71st pct
- Brent Primus+4.27% 73″ reach · 71st pct
- Frank Camacho+4.27% 73″ reach · 71st pct
- Paddy Pimblett+4.27% 73″ reach · 71st pct
- Caros Fodor+4.34% 72″ reach · 75th pct
- Gadzhi Rabadanov+4.34% 72″ reach · 75th pct
- Dennis Hallman+4.34% 72″ reach · 75th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Brian Foster's record?
- 29–11 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 41 bouts individually.
- How many of Brian Foster's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 41. 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 304 lightweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Foster sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA20 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsBrian Foster went 6 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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