Ken Shamrock
72.8″ reach · -0.22% reach advantage · 8th percentile
28–17
Ken Shamrock has a reach of 72.8″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of -0.22%, unusually short for light heavyweight MMA and the 8th percentile of the 88 compared here.
SOURCE·Ken Shamrock — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-26
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 2026-07-26. 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 88 light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | L | Royce Gracie | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Kimbo Slice | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Mike Bourke | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Johnathan Ivey | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Pedro Rizzo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Ross Clifton | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Robert Berry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Tito Ortiz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Rich Franklin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Kimo Leopoldo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Tito Ortiz | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Don Frye | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Sam Adkins | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Kazuyuki Fujita | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Alexander Otsuka | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Brian Johnston | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Dan Severn | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Kimo Leopoldo | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Kazuo Takahashi | Decision | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Katsuomi Inagaki | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | D | Oleg Taktarov | Draw | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Larry Papadopoulos | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Dan Severn | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | L | Minoru Suzuki | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | D | Royce Gracie | Draw | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Bas Rutten | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Leon Dijk | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Manabu Yamada | Decision | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Maurice Smith | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Takaku Fuke | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Felix Mitchell | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | L | Masakatsu Funaki | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Bas Rutten | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Matt Hume | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Ryushi Yanagisawa | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | L | Minoru Suzuki | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | L | Frank Lobman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Andre Van Den Oetelaar | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | L | Royce Gracie | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Takaku Fuke | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Yoshiki Takahashi | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Masakatsu Funaki | Submission | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Don Nakaya Nielsen | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Masakatsu Funaki | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Alex Cook | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Christophe Leininger | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Patrick Smith | Submission | — |
29 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Ken Shamrock — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-26
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-0.22%
72.8″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.
| Reach | 72.8″ (185 cm) | 13th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 40th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: heavyweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 28 of 44 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
28–17
47 bouts on record
Finish rate
89%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 73rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
48 recorded bouts from 1992 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
25y
1992–2016
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1994
10 bouts
Recorded bouts
48
44 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is Ken Shamrock's record?
- 28–17 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 48 bouts individually.
- How many of Ken Shamrock's bouts have no date?
- 4 of 48. 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.
Where this record leads
The 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Shamrock sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 1990s MMA28 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Ken Shamrock vs Kimbo SliceA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2015 Longest unbeaten runsKen Shamrock went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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