Evan Tanner
74″ reach · +2.79% reach advantage · 43rd percentile
32–8
Evan Tanner has a reach of 74″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +2.79%, short for heavyweight MMA and the 43rd percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Evan Tanner — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-03
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 2026-06-03. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | L | Kendall Grove | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Yushin Okami | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Justin Levens | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | L | David Loiseau | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Rich Franklin | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2005 | W | David Terrell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Robbie Lawler | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Phil Baroni | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Phil Baroni | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Rich Franklin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Shannon Ritch | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Chris Haseman | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Elvis Sinosic | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Homer Moore | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Tito Ortiz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Lance Gibson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Travis Fulton | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Raoul Romero | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Vinny Nixon | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Leon Dijk | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Mike Cizek | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Valeri Ignatov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Darrel Gholar | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Ryushi Yanagisawa | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Gene Lydick | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Kiuma Kunioku | Decision | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Justin McCully | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Kousei Kubota | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Tony Castillo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Dennis Reed | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Rusty Totty | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Heath Herring | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Paul Buentello | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Ikuhisa Minowa | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Wade Kroeze | KO/TKO | — |
| undated | W | Jesse Gonzalez | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Joe Frailey | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Gary Nabors | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Mike Kennedy | Submission | — |
21 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Evan Tanner — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.79%
74″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 13th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 11th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 18 of 33 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
32–8
40 bouts on record
Finish rate
91%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 61st percentile
The career, bout by bout
39 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2008. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
1997–2008
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1998
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
39
33 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Ibragim Chuzhigaev+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Justin Tafa+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Daniel Omielańczuk+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Matt Lindland+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Assuério Silva+2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
- James Te Huna+2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
- Thiago Silva+2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
- Volkan Oezdemir+2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Evan Tanner's record?
- 32–8 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 39 bouts individually.
- How many of Evan Tanner's bouts have no date?
- 6 of 39. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- 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 Tanner sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA18 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsEvan Tanner went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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