LaVerne Clark
27–20 · 49 recorded bouts · 1997–2014
27–20
LaVerne Clark finished 78% of 27 wins inside the distance — the 63rd percentile for welterweight MMA, where the median is 73%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·LaVerne Clark — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-01-22
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 2025-01-22. 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 299 welterweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | L | Mark Stoddard | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Evan Vasquez Matus | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Brian Foster | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Sean Salmon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Sean Huffman | DQ | — |
| 2010 | W | Evan Marks | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Ryan Ford | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Matt Kelly | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Aaron Smith | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Zeke Shiling | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Aaron Wetherspoon | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Chris Wilson | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Victor Moreno | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Jamie Woods | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Jake Ellenberger | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Cruz Chacon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Jake Jetter | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | D | Melvin Guillard | Draw | 3 |
| 2004 | W | John Moore | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Kevin Knabjan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Buck Greer | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Jorge Santiago | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Mac Danzig | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Rafal Piszczek | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Chris Lytle | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Miguel Menendez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Donald Ouimet | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Ryuki Ueyama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Frank Trigg | Submission | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Daiju Takase | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Earnest Knight | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Jutaro Nakao | Submission | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Chatt Lavender | Submission | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Fabiano Iha | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Cedric Marks | Submission | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Koji Oishi | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | W | John Lewis | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | W | John Paun | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Matt Hughes | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | L | Dave Menne | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | W | CJ Fernandes | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Fabiano Iha | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | James Julian | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Frank Caracci | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Dave Yoder | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Josh Stewart | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Dave Menne | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Brian Dunn | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Shonie Carter | KO/TKO | 1 |
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·LaVerne Clark — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-01-22
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 31 of 49 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for LaVerne Clark, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
27–20
48 bouts on record
Finish rate
78%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 63rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
49 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
1997–2014
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1999
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
49
49 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. LaVerne Clark competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 27 | 20 | 9 |
| Boxing | 14 | 18 | 9 |
What this record does and does not say
- What is LaVerne Clark's record?
- 27–20 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 49 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.
