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David Baron

17–4 · 22 recorded bouts · 1999–2014

MMA record

17–4

David Baron finished 88% of 17 wins inside the distance — the 86th percentile for welterweight MMA, where the median is 73%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

199020002010win v Carl Cincinnatus, 1999, submissionwin v Dirk van Opstal, 2001, submissionwin v Martinsh Egle, 2002, kowin v Roemer Trumpert, 2003, submissionwin v Jean Frederic Dutriat, 2003, submissionwin v Stale Nyang, 2004, decisionwin v Dan Hardy, 2005, submissionwin v Sauli Heilimo, 2005, submissionloss v Takanori Gomi, 2006, submissionwin v Joey Van Wanrooij, 2006, submissionwin v Dan Hardy, 2006, decisionloss v Per Eklund, 2006, decisionwin v Erik Oganov, 2006, kowin v Olivier Elizabeth, 2006, submissionwin v Niek Tromp, 2007, submissionwin v Abdul Mohamed, 2007, kowin v Johnny Frachey, 2007, kowin v Jason Ball, 2007, submissionloss v Jim Miller, 2008, submissionwin v Hayato Sakurai, 2008, submissiondraw v Gor Harutunian, 2010, decisionloss v Jason Ponet, 2014, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1999–2014

SOURCE·David Baron (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-22

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-01-22. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 299 welterweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2014 L Jason Ponet Decision3
2010 D Gor Harutunian Decision3
2008 L Jim Miller Submission3
2008 W Hayato Sakurai Submission1
2007 W Niek Tromp Submission1
2007 W Abdul Mohamed KO/TKO1
2007 W Johnny Frachey KO/TKO1
2007 W Jason Ball Submission1
2006 L Takanori Gomi Submission1
2006 W Joey Van Wanrooij Submission1
2006 W Dan Hardy Decision2
2006 L Per Eklund Decision3
2006 W Erik Oganov KO/TKO2
2006 W Olivier Elizabeth Submission1
2005 W Dan Hardy Submission2
2005 W Sauli Heilimo Submission2
2004 W Stale Nyang Decision3
2003 W Roemer Trumpert Submission1
2003 W Jean Frederic Dutriat Submission2
2002 W Martinsh Egle KO/TKO1
2001 W Dirk van Opstal Submission1
1999 W Carl Cincinnatus Submission2

6 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·David Baron (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-22

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height66.1″ (168 cm)
Stance—
DivisionWelterweight MMA
Most active decade2000s — 19 of 22 dated bouts
CountryFrance

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for David Baron, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2000 2010 win vs Carl Cincinnatus (1999)win vs Dirk van Opstal (2001)win vs Martinsh Egle (2002)win vs Roemer Trumpert (2003)win vs Jean Frederic Dutriat (2003)win vs Stale Nyang (2004)win vs Dan Hardy (2005)win vs Sauli Heilimo (2005)loss vs Takanori Gomi (2006)win vs Joey Van Wanrooij (2006)win vs Dan Hardy (2006)loss vs Per Eklund (2006)win vs Erik Oganov (2006)win vs Olivier Elizabeth (2006)win vs Niek Tromp (2007)win vs Abdul Mohamed (2007)win vs Johnny Frachey (2007)win vs Jason Ball (2007)loss vs Jim Miller (2008)win vs Hayato Sakurai (2008)draw vs Gor Harutunian (2010)loss vs Jason Ponet (2014)
winlossdraw / NC1999–2014

Record

MMA record

17–4

22 bouts on record

Finish rate

88%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 86th percentile

KO/TKO: 4 (24%)Submission: 11 (65%)Decision: 2 (12%)
  • KO/TKO 24%
  • Submission 65%
  • Decision 12%

The career, bout by bout

22 recorded bouts from 1999 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

16y

1999–2014

Longest unbeaten run

8

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2006

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

22

22 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is David Baron's record?
17–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 22 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.

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