Francis Ngannou
83″ reach · +9.22% reach advantage · 97th percentile
19–3
Francis Ngannou has a reach of 83″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +9.22%, exceptional for heavyweight MMA and the 97th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Francis Ngannou — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-09
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 2026-07-09. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W | Philipe Lins | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2024 | W | Renan Ferreira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2024 | L | Anthony Joshua | — | 2 |
| 2023 | L | Tyson Fury | — | 10 |
| 2022 | W | Ciryl Gane | Decision | 5 |
| 2021 | W | Stipe Miocic | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2020 | W | Jairzinho Rozenstruik | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Junior dos Santos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Cain Velasquez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Curtis Blaydes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | L | Derrick Lewis | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Stipe Miocic | Decision | 5 |
| 2017 | W | Alistair Overeem | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Andrei Arlovski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Anthony Hamilton | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Bojan Mihajlović | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Curtis Blaydes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Luis Henrique | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | William Baldutti | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Luc Ngeleka | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Nicolas Specq | Submission | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Zoumana Cisse | Decision | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Rachid Benzina | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Bilal Tahtahi | KO/TKO | — |
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Francis Ngannou — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-09
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+9.22%
83″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 83″ (210.8 cm) | 94th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 68th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 16 of 23 dated bouts | |
| Country | Cameroon |
Record
MMA record
19–3
22 bouts on record
Finish rate
95%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 68th percentile
The career, bout by bout
24 recorded bouts from 2013 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
2013–2026
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2016
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
24
23 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Francis Ngannou competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 19 | 3 | 14 |
| Kickboxing | 1 | — | — |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Izu Ugonoh+8.67% 83.9″ reach · 96th pct
- Chris Barnett+8.67% 75″ reach · 96th pct
- Butterbean+9.87% 78″ reach · 98th pct
- Mike Rodríguez+10.03% 82.5″ reach · 99th pct
- Justin Willis+8.25% 79″ reach · 95th pct
- Antônio Silva+7.93% 82″ reach · 94th pct
- Kennedy Nzechukwu+7.77% 83″ reach · 94th pct
- Hongman Choi+7.31% 92.5″ reach · 93rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Francis Ngannou's record?
- 19–3 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 24 bouts individually.
- How many of Francis Ngannou's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 24. 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 Ngannou sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA16 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Francis Ngannou vs Stipe MiocicA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2018 Longest unbeaten runsFrancis Ngannou went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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