Darren Elkins
71″ reach · +1.41% reach advantage · 29th percentile
29–12
Darren Elkins has a reach of 71″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +1.41%, short for featherweight MMA and the 29th percentile of the 119 compared here.
SOURCE·Darren Elkins — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
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 2026-07-29. 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 119 featherweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L | Julian Erosa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2024 | W | Daniel Pineda | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | W | T.J. Brown | Submission | 3 |
| 2022 | L | Jonathan Pearce | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Tristan Connelly | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Cub Swanson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2021 | W | Darrick Minner | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2020 | W | Luiz Eduardo Garagorri | Submission | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Nate Landwehr | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | L | Ryan Hall | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Ricardo Lamas | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Alexander Volkanovski | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Michael Johnson | Submission | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Dennis Bermudez | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Mirsad Bektić | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Godofredo Pepey | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Chas Skelly | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Robert Whiteford | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Hacran Dias | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Lucas Martins | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Jeremy Stephens | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Hatsu Hioki | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | L | Chad Mendes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Antonio Carvalho | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Steven Siler | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Diego Brandão | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Zhang Tiequan | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Michihiro Omigawa | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Charles Oliveira | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Duane Ludwig | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Gideon Ray | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Bryan Neville | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Ted Worthington | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Danny Rodriguez | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Pat Curran | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Kenny Klein | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Decarlo Johnson | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Atsuhiro Tsuboi | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Daniel Wanderley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Matt Joseph | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Jeremy Markam | Submission | 1 |
25 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Darren Elkins — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.41%
71″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 119 featherweight MMA fighters. Median 2.75%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 54th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 70th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight MMA competed at 2: lightweight, featherweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 21 of 41 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
29–12
41 bouts on record
Finish rate
52%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight MMA median 65%, 22nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
41 recorded bouts from 2007 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2007–2025
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2007
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
41
41 with a date
Closest in build
featherweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Lucas Brennan+1.41% 71″ reach · 29th pct
- Mateusz Gamrot+1.41% 71″ reach · 29th pct
- Julio Cesar Neves+1.4% 74″ reach · 29th pct
- Bryce Mitchell+1.43% 70″ reach · 32nd pct
- Kron Gracie+1.43% 70″ reach · 32nd pct
- Pat Sabatini+1.43% 70″ reach · 32nd pct
- Jorina Baars+1.44% 72″ reach · 34th pct
- Claudio Puelles+1.44% 72″ reach · 34th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Darren Elkins's record?
- 29–12 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 41 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 225 featherweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Elkins sits inside.
225 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA21 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsDarren Elkins went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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