Joel Álvarez
77″ reach · +2.68% reach advantage · 44th percentile
23–4
Joel Álvarez has a reach of 77″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +2.68%, short for welterweight MMA and the 44th percentile of the 174 compared here.
SOURCE·Joel Álvarez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-13
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 2026-05-13. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | L | Yaroslav Amosov | Submission | 2 |
| 2025 | W | Vicente Luque | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Drakkar Klose | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2024 | W | Elves Brener | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2023 | W | Marc Diakiese | Submission | 2 |
| 2022 | L | Arman Tsarukyan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2021 | W | Thiago Moisés | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2020 | W | Alexander Yakovlev | Submission | 1 |
| 2020 | W | Joseph Duffy | Submission | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Danilo Belluardo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2019 | L | Damir Ismagulov | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Radu Maxim | Submission | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Julio Cesar Alves | Submission | 2 |
| 2018 | W | Alexandre Ribeiro | Submission | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Kevin Daniel Delgado | Submission | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Francisco Gonzalez | Submission | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Jekson Poleza | Submission | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Anthony Muller | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Moncef Ed Doukani | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Jose Luis Bravo | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Carlos Villar | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Ali Abdulkhalikov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Graham Turner | Submission | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Jose Luis Bravo | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Helson Henriques | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Hicham Rachid | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Aratz Garmendia | Submission | 1 |
10 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Joel Álvarez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-13
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.68%
77″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 174 welterweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 91st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 96th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA competed at 2: lightweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 18 of 27 dated bouts | |
| Country | Spain |
Record
MMA record
23–4
27 bouts on record
Finish rate
96%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 94th percentile
The career, bout by bout
27 recorded bouts from 2013 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
2013–2026
Longest unbeaten run
13
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2015
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
27
27 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Thad Jean+2.66% 76″ reach · 42nd pct
- Mike Ricci+2.66% 76″ reach · 42nd pct
- Curtis Millender+2.66% 76″ reach · 42nd pct
- Thiago Santos+2.66% 76″ reach · 42nd pct
- Matthew Semelsberger+2.75% 75″ reach · 45th pct
- Patrick Habirora+2.75% 75″ reach · 45th pct
- Cathal Pendred+2.75% 75″ reach · 45th pct
- James Wilks+2.75% 75″ reach · 45th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Joel Álvarez's record?
- 23–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 27 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 Álvarez sits inside.
302 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA18 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJoel Álvarez went 13 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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