Hans Nijman
72.5″ reach · +0.71% reach advantage · 18th percentile
8–6
Hans Nijman has a reach of 72.5″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +0.71%, unusually short for heavyweight MMA and the 18th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Hans Nijman — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-10-03
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 2025-10-03. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Minoru Suzuki | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Cheick Kongo | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Barrington Patterson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Kazuyuki Fujita | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Danny Higgins | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Hiromitsu Kanehara | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Vladimir Klementiev | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Victor Kruger | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Kiyoshi Tamura | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Lee Hasdell | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Tariel Bitsadze | — | — |
| 1996 | W | Allen Harris | Submission | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Volk Han | KO/TKO | — |
| 1995 | W | Ramaji Buzoriashivilli | — | — |
| 1995 | W | Andrei Kopylov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | KO/TKO | 1 |
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Hans Nijman — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-10-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+0.71%
72.5″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 72.5″ (184.2 cm) | 7th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 11th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 12 of 16 dated bouts | |
| Country | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Record
MMA record
8–6
14 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
16 recorded bouts from 1995 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1995–2013
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1995
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
16
16 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Liu Ce+0.51% 77.6″ reach · 17th pct
- Anderson Braddock+0.94% 75.7″ reach · 19th pct
- Antonio Plazibat+1.03% 77.2″ reach · 19th pct
- Ben Edwards+1.05% 76″ reach · 20th pct
- Don Frye+0.22% 73″ reach · 16th pct
- Alexander Volkov+1.25% 80″ reach · 21st pct
- Tom Aspinall+1.28% 78″ reach · 21st pct
- Logan Clark+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Hans Nijman's record?
- 8–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 16 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 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Nijman sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 1990s MMA12 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsHans Nijman went 5 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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