James Wilks
75″ reach · +2.75% reach advantage · 45th percentile
7–4
James Wilks has a reach of 75″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +2.75%, average for welterweight MMA and the 45th percentile of the 174 compared here.
SOURCE·James Wilks — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-10-12
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 2025-10-12. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | L | Claude Patrick | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Peter Sobotta | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Matt Brown | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | W | DaMarques Johnson | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Mike Robles | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | W | John Cole | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Shawn Nagano | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Patrick Speight | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Ray Lizama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Jimmy Smith | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Roman Mitichyan | Submission | 2 |
| undated | W | Frank Lester | KO/TKO | 3 |
| undated | W | Che Mills | Submission | 0 |
4 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·James Wilks — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-10-12
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.75%
75″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 174 welterweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 71st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 79th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 9 of 11 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
MMA record
7–4
11 bouts on record
Finish rate
86%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 80th percentile
The career, bout by bout
13 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2010. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
8y
2003–2010
Longest unbeaten run
2
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2004
2 bouts
Recorded bouts
13
11 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Matthew Semelsberger+2.75% 75″ reach · 45th pct
- Patrick Habirora+2.75% 75″ reach · 45th pct
- Cathal Pendred+2.75% 75″ reach · 45th pct
- Michael Chiesa+2.75% 75″ reach · 45th pct
- Neiman Gracie+2.79% 74″ reach · 48th pct
- André Fialho+2.79% 74″ reach · 48th pct
- Alan Jouban+2.79% 74″ reach · 48th pct
- Dan Hardy+2.79% 74″ reach · 48th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is James Wilks's record?
- 7–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 13 bouts individually.
- How many of James Wilks's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 13. 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.
