Cain Velasquez
77″ reach · +5.5% reach advantage · 82nd percentile
14–3
Cain Velasquez has a reach of 77″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +5.5%, long for heavyweight MMA and the 82nd percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Cain Velasquez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-12
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 2026-07-12. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | L | Francis Ngannou | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Travis Browne | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Fabrício Werdum | Submission | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Junior dos Santos | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2013 | W | Antônio Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Junior dos Santos | Decision | 5 |
| 2012 | W | Antônio Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Junior dos Santos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Brock Lesnar | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Ben Rothwell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Cheick Kongo | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Denis Stojnić | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Jake O'Brien | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Brad Morris | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Jeremiah Constant | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Jesse Fujarczyk | KO/TKO | 1 |
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Cain Velasquez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-12
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.5%
77″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 42nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 21st pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 10 of 17 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
14–3
17 bouts on record
Finish rate
86%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 50th percentile
The career, bout by bout
17 recorded bouts from 2006 to 2019. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
2006–2019
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2009
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
17
17 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Ray Mercer+5.5% 77″ reach · 82nd pct
- Jairzinho Rozenstruik+5.37% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- Jérôme Philippe Le Banner+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Mick Parkin+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Todd Duffee+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Derrick Lewis+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Corey Anderson+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Frank Mir+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Cain Velasquez's record?
- 14–3 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 17 bouts individually.
- 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 Velasquez sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA10 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Brock Lesnar vs Cain VelasquezA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2010 Longest unbeaten runsCain Velasquez went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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