Eric Schafer
76″ reach · +1.31% reach advantage · 19th percentile
14–8
Eric Schafer has a reach of 76″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +1.31%, unusually short for middleweight MMA and the 19th percentile of the 139 compared here.
SOURCE·Eric Schafer — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-19
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 2026-06-19. 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 139 middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | L | James Austen Heidlage | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Eric Hammerich | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | John Poppie | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Jorge Rivera | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Aaron Simpson | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Chris Albandia | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Jason Brilz | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Ryan Bader | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Antonio Mendes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Houston Alexander | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | William Hill | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Ryan Antle | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Stephan Bonnar | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Michael Bisping | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Rob MacDonald | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | William Hill | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Jason Veach | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Jason Guida | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Dustin Denes | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | D | Jim Desouza | Draw | 2 |
| 1999 | D | Paul Ivens | Draw | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Steve Martin | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Duane Franzen | Decision | 1 |
| 1998 | W | John Lowey | — | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Ryan Apolonario | Submission | 1 |
7 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Eric Schafer — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-19
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.31%
76″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 139 middleweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 76″ (193 cm) | 65th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 88th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 2: light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 13 of 25 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
14–8
24 bouts on record
Finish rate
93%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 84th percentile
The career, bout by bout
25 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1998–2016
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1998
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
25
25 with a date
Closest in build
middleweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Kyle Daukaus+1.31% 76″ reach · 19th pct
- Roman Dolidze+1.31% 76″ reach · 19th pct
- Jay Silva+1.33% 75″ reach · 21st pct
- Kevin Jousset+1.33% 75″ reach · 21st pct
- Dhiego Lima+1.33% 75″ reach · 21st pct
- Zhang Mingyang+1.33% 75″ reach · 21st pct
- Khamzat Chimaev+1.33% 75″ reach · 21st pct
- Zachary Reese+1.35% 77″ reach · 24th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Eric Schafer's record?
- 14–8 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 25 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.
