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Gesias Cavalcante

22–12 · 36 recorded bouts · 2004–2022

MMA record

22–12

Gesias Cavalcante finished 77% of 22 wins inside the distance — the 65th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

200020102020UNFILEDwin v Cengiz Dana, 2004, submissionwin v Bart Palaszewski, 2004, submissionwin v Sebastian Korschilgen, 2004, submissionloss v Joachim Hansen, 2004, decisionwin v Brad Mohler, 2004, submissionwin v Justin Wiesniewski, 2004, submissionwin v Michihiro Omigawa, 2005, kodraw v Ryan Schultz, 2005, drawwin v Henry Matamoros, 2005, decisionwin v Caol Uno, 2006, decisionwin v Hiroyuki Takaya, 2006, kowin v Hidetaka Monma, 2006, kowin v Andre Amade, 2007, submissionwin v Nam Phan, 2007, koloss v Shinya Aoki, 2008, decisionloss v Tatsuya Kawajiri, 2009, decisionloss v Josh Thomson, 2010, decisionwin v Katsunori Kikuno, 2010, decisionwin v Bobby Green, 2011, decisionnc v Justin Wilcox, 2011win v TJ O'Brien, 2012, submissionloss v Luis Palomino, 2012, koloss v Isaac Vallie-Flagg, 2012, decisionwin v Tyson Griffin, 2013, koloss v Justin Gaethje, 2013, kowin v Gele Qing, 2014, submissionloss v Melvin Guillard, 2014, kowin v Robert Turnquest, 2016, decisionloss v Freddy Assuncao, 2016, submissionwin v Pat Healy, 2016, koloss v Alan Omer, 2017, koloss v Kurt Holobaugh, 2017, koloss v Erivan Pereira, 2018, kowin v Rick Hawn, 2022, submissionwin v Vítor Ribeiro, no date on recordwin v Rani Yahya, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2004–2022 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Gesias Cavalcante — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-03

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 2026-06-03. 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 304 lightweight 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
2022 W Rick Hawn Submission2
2018 L Erivan Pereira KO/TKO2
2017 L Alan Omer KO/TKO3
2017 L Kurt Holobaugh KO/TKO4
2016 W Robert Turnquest Decision3
2016 L Freddy Assuncao Submission4
2016 W Pat Healy KO/TKO1
2014 W Gele Qing Submission1
2014 L Melvin Guillard KO/TKO2
2013 W Tyson Griffin KO/TKO3
2013 L Justin Gaethje KO/TKO1
2012 W TJ O'Brien Submission1
2012 L Luis Palomino KO/TKO3
2012 L Isaac Vallie-Flagg Decision3
2011 W Bobby Green Decision3
2011 N Justin Wilcox —2
2010 L Josh Thomson Decision3
2010 W Katsunori Kikuno Decision2
2009 L Tatsuya Kawajiri Decision2
2008 L Shinya Aoki Decision2
2007 W Andre Amade Submission1
2007 W Nam Phan KO/TKO1
2006 W Caol Uno Decision2
2006 W Hiroyuki Takaya KO/TKO1
2006 W Hidetaka Monma KO/TKO1
2005 W Michihiro Omigawa KO/TKO1
2005 D Ryan Schultz Draw3
2005 W Henry Matamoros Decision3
2004 W Cengiz Dana Submission3
2004 W Bart Palaszewski Submission1
2004 W Sebastian Korschilgen Submission1
2004 L Joachim Hansen Decision3
2004 W Brad Mohler Submission1
2004 W Justin Wiesniewski Submission1
undated W Vítor Ribeiro KO/TKO—
undated W Rani Yahya Submission—

19 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Gesias Cavalcante — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-03

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height68″ (172.7 cm)
Stance—
DivisionLightweight MMA
Most active decade2010s — 17 of 34 dated bouts
CountryBrazil

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

2010 2020 win vs Cengiz Dana (2004)win vs Bart Palaszewski (2004)win vs Sebastian Korschilgen (2004)loss vs Joachim Hansen (2004)win vs Brad Mohler (2004)win vs Justin Wiesniewski (2004)win vs Michihiro Omigawa (2005)draw vs Ryan Schultz (2005)win vs Henry Matamoros (2005)win vs Caol Uno (2006)win vs Hiroyuki Takaya (2006)win vs Hidetaka Monma (2006)win vs Andre Amade (2007)win vs Nam Phan (2007)loss vs Shinya Aoki (2008)loss vs Tatsuya Kawajiri (2009)loss vs Josh Thomson (2010)win vs Katsunori Kikuno (2010)win vs Bobby Green (2011)nc vs Justin Wilcox (2011)win vs TJ O'Brien (2012)loss vs Luis Palomino (2012)loss vs Isaac Vallie-Flagg (2012)win vs Tyson Griffin (2013)loss vs Justin Gaethje (2013)win vs Gele Qing (2014)loss vs Melvin Guillard (2014)win vs Robert Turnquest (2016)loss vs Freddy Assuncao (2016)win vs Pat Healy (2016)loss vs Alan Omer (2017)loss vs Kurt Holobaugh (2017)loss vs Erivan Pereira (2018)win vs Rick Hawn (2022)
winlossdraw / NC2004–2022

Record

MMA record

22–12

35 bouts on record

Finish rate

77%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 65th percentile

KO/TKO: 7 (32%)Submission: 10 (45%)Decision: 5 (23%)
  • KO/TKO 32%
  • Submission 45%
  • Decision 23%

The career, bout by bout

36 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

19y

2004–2022

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2004

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

36

34 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Gesias Cavalcante's record?
22–12 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 36 bouts individually.
How many of Gesias Cavalcante's bouts have no date?
2 of 36. 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.

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