Gunnar Nelson
72″ reach · +1.44% reach advantage · 35th percentile
19–6
Gunnar Nelson has a reach of 72″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of +1.44%, short for welterweight MMA and the 35th percentile of the 174 compared here.
SOURCE·Gunnar Nelson (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-14
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 2026-05-14. 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 174 welterweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L | Kevin Holland | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | W | Bryan Barberena | Submission | 1 |
| 2022 | W | Takashi Sato | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | L | Gilbert Burns | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | L | Leon Edwards | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Alex Oliveira | Submission | 2 |
| 2017 | L | Santiago Ponzinibbio | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Alan Jouban | Submission | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Albert Tumenov | Submission | 2 |
| 2015 | L | Demian Maia | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Brandon Thatch | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Rick Story | Decision | 5 |
| 2014 | W | Zak Cummings | Submission | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Omari Akhmedov | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Jorge Santiago | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | DaMarques Johnson | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Alexander Butenko | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Eugene Fadiora | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Danny Mitchell | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Sam Elsdon | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Iran Mascarenhas | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Barry Mairs | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Niek Tromp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Adam Slawinski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Driss El Bakara | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | D | John Olesen | Draw | 3 |
16 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Gunnar Nelson (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-14
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.44%
72″ reach on a 71″ frame
Compared against 174 welterweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 29th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 47th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 17 of 26 dated bouts | |
| Country | Iceland |
Record
MMA record
19–6
26 bouts on record
Finish rate
89%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 87th percentile
The career, bout by bout
26 recorded bouts from 2007 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2007–2025
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2007
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
26
26 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Joey Villaseñor+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Hector Aldana+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Abubakar Nurmagomedov Абубакар Нурмагомедов+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Colby Covington+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Luigi Fioravanti+1.43% 70″ reach · 34th pct
- James Moontasri+1.41% 71″ reach · 29th pct
- Michael Graves+1.41% 71″ reach · 29th pct
- Rory Markham+1.41% 71″ reach · 29th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Gunnar Nelson's record?
- 19–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 26 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.
Where this record leads
The 302 welterweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Nelson sits inside.
302 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA17 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsGunnar Nelson went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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