Dave Herman
22–5 · 28 recorded bouts · 2006–2014
22–5
Dave Herman finished 91% of 22 wins inside the distance — the 62nd percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Dave Herman (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-08-23
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 2025-08-23. 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 324 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | W | Kalib Starnes | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | L | Gabriel Gonzaga | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | L | Roy Nelson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Stefan Struve | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | John-Olav Einemo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Yoshihiro Nakao | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Michal Kita | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou | DQ | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Jim York | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Don Frye | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Josh Barnes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Choi Mu-Bae | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Chris Guillen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Kerry Schall | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Ron Waterman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Mario Rinaldi | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Justin Kuhn | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Chuck Geyer | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Terry Tucker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Jordan Wall | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Andre Mussi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | James Samuels | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | James Ferguson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Seth Parker | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Greg Hammer | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Jeff Orieze | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Mike Cooke | KO/TKO | 1 |
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Dave Herman (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-08-23
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 19 of 28 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Dave Herman, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
22–5
27 bouts on record
Finish rate
91%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 62nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
28 recorded bouts from 2006 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
2006–2014
Longest unbeaten run
18
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2007
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
28
28 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Dave Herman's record?
- 22–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 28 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 Herman sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA19 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsDave Herman went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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