Lou Savarese
80″ reach · +3.89% reach advantage · 54th percentile
1–0
Lou Savarese has a reach of 80″ against a height of 77″ — a reach advantage of +3.89%, average for heavyweight MMA and the 54th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Lou Savarese — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-19
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 2026-06-19. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | L | Evander Holyfield | Decision | 10 |
| 2007 | W | Travis Fulton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Marcus Rhode | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Leo Nolan | Decision | 12 |
| 2003 | L | Kirk Johnson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2002 | W | Tim Witherspoon | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2001 | W | David Bosticue | Decision | 12 |
| 2001 | W | Tom Glesby | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Marcus Rhode | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Michael Grant | Decision | 10 |
| 1999 | W | Lance Whitaker | Decision | 10 |
| 1998 | W | Buster Douglas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Jeff Lally | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1997 | L | David Izon | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1997 | L | George Foreman | Decision | 12 |
| 1996 | W | Buster Mathis Jr. | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 1996 | W | Tim Puller | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Lyle McDowell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Sean Hart | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Olian Alexander | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1995 | W | Edgar Turpin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Brian Morgan | Decision | 8 |
| 1994 | W | Ken Merritt | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1994 | W | Henry Wilson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Bill Duncan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Nathaniel Fitch | Decision | 10 |
| 1992 | W | Fred Whitaker | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1992 | W | Larry Givens | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1992 | W | Elvin Evans | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1991 | W | Mike Faulkner | DQ | 5 |
| 1991 | W | Mike Robinson | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1991 | W | Mark Young | Decision | 8 |
| 1991 | W | Larry Smith | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1991 | W | Max Key | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Marshall Tillman | Decision | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Marcus Dorsey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | James Ruffin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Travis Pickering | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Barry Kirton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Dan Ross | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Andre Crowder | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1990 | W | Mike Robinson | Decision | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Ken Elliott | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Melvin Young | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Randy Rivers | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | John Basil Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Alan Jamison | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Robert Horton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Terence Roberts | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | James Smith | KO/TKO | 4 |
| undated | W | Matt Hicks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Lou Savarese — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-19
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.89%
80″ reach on a 77″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 80″ (203.2 cm) | 76th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 83rd pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 34 of 51 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
1–0
1 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
53 recorded bouts from 1989 to 2007. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1989–2007
Longest unbeaten run
35
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1990
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
53
51 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Lou Savarese competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 1 | — | 1 |
| Boxing | 46 | 7 | 38 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Don'Tale Mayes+3.84% 81″ reach · 54th pct
- Kevin Rosier+3.99% 79″ reach · 55th pct
- Josh Parisian+3.99% 79″ reach · 55th pct
- Imamu Mayfield+3.99% 78″ reach · 55th pct
- Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira+3.99% 78″ reach · 55th pct
- Maurice Greene+3.79% 82″ reach · 53rd pct
- Ali Isaev Али Исаев+3.99% 78″ reach · 55th pct
- Ante Delija+3.99% 78″ reach · 55th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Lou Savarese's record?
- 1–0 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 53 bouts individually.
- How many of Lou Savarese's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 53. 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 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Savarese sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 1990s MMA34 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Lou Savarese vs Mike TysonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2000 Longest unbeaten runsLou Savarese went 35 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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