Francisco Rivera
70″ reach · +2.95% reach advantage · 61st percentile
16–12
Francisco Rivera has a reach of 70″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +2.95%, above average for featherweight MMA and the 61st percentile of the 119 compared here.
SOURCE·Francisco Rivera (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-05
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 2026-06-05. 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 119 featherweight 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 | L | Jesse Strader | Submission | 1 |
| 2024 | L | Albert Morales | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2024 | N | Jesse Strader | — | 2 |
| 2023 | W | Josh Wang-Kim | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | N | Ricky Bandejas | — | 2 |
| 2022 | L | Cody Gibson | Submission | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Teruto Ishihara | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | L | John Dodson | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | L | David Martínez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2021 | W | Ryan Lilley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2021 | W | Adam Martinez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | L | Erik Pérez | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Brad Pickett | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | John Lineker | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Alex Caceres | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Urijah Faber | Submission | 2 |
| 2014 | L | Takeya Mizugaki | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | George Roop | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Edwin Figueroa | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | N | Roland Delorme | — | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Alex Soto | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Antonio Duarte | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Brad McDonald | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Reuben Duran | Submission | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Erik Koch | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Fernando Bernstein | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Aaron Arana | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Johnny Gomez | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Chris Drumm | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Ray Cox | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | W | Nohelin Hernandez | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Adam Martinez | KO/TKO | — |
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Francisco Rivera (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-05
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.95%
70″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 119 featherweight MMA fighters. Median 2.75%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 43rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 42nd pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Featherweight MMA competed at 2: bantamweight, featherweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 15 of 30 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
16–12
28 bouts on record
Finish rate
63%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight MMA median 65%, 43rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
32 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2008–2026
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2012
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
32
30 with a date
Closest in build
featherweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Melsik Baghdasaryan+2.95% 70″ reach · 61st pct
- Daniel Pineda+3% 69″ reach · 63rd pct
- Raquel Paʻaluhi Canuto+3% 69″ reach · 63rd pct
- Teruto Ishihara+3% 69″ reach · 63rd pct
- Thiago Tavares+3% 69″ reach · 63rd pct
- Robert Ruchała+2.87% 72″ reach · 57th pct
- Brandon Davis+2.87% 72″ reach · 57th pct
- Jordan Rinaldi+2.87% 72″ reach · 57th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Francisco Rivera's record?
- 16–12 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 32 bouts individually.
- How many of Francisco Rivera's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 32. 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.
