Justin Tafa
74″ reach · +2.79% reach advantage · 43rd percentile
7–5
Justin Tafa has a reach of 74″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +2.79%, short for heavyweight MMA and the 43rd percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Justin Tafa — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-03-10
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 2026-03-10. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L | Tallison Teixeira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2024 | L | Karl Williams | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | W | Austen Lane | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2023 | W | Parker Porter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2021 | W | Harry Hunsucker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2021 | L | Jared Vanderaa | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Carlos Felipe | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Juan Adams | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Yorgan De Castro | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | David Taumoepeau | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2018 | W | Jeremy Joiner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Dylan Tiaaleaiga | KO/TKO | 2 |
7 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Justin Tafa — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-03-10
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.79%
74″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 13th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 11th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA inferred from the listed weight, not stated as a class | |
| Most active decade | 2020s — 8 of 12 dated bouts | |
| Country | New Zealand |
Record
MMA record
7–5
12 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
12 recorded bouts from 2018 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
8y
2018–2025
Longest unbeaten run
3
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2021
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
12
12 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Ibragim Chuzhigaev+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Daniel Omielańczuk+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Matt Lindland+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Evan Tanner+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Assuério Silva+2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
- James Te Huna+2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
- Thiago Silva+2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
- Volkan Oezdemir+2.75% 75″ reach · 40th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Justin Tafa's record?
- 7–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 12 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.
