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Matt Lindland

74″ reach · +2.79% reach advantage · 43rd percentile

MMA record

21–9

Matt Lindland 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.

199020002010win v Travis Fulton, 1997, submissionwin v Mark Waters, 1997, submissionwin v Karo Davtyan, 1997, kowin v Yoji Anjo, 2000, kowin v Phil Baroni, 2001, decisionwin v Ricardo Almeida, 2001, dqwin v Ivan Salaverry, 2002, decisionloss v Murilo Bustamante, 2002, submissionwin v Pat Miletich, 2002, kowin v Falaniko Vitale, 2003, submissionwin v Phil Baroni, 2003, decisionwin v Mark Weir, 2004, koloss v David Terrell, 2004, kowin v Tony Fryklund, 2004, decisionwin v Antonio Schembri, 2005, kowin v Joe Doerksen, 2005, decisionwin v Travis Lutter, 2005, submissionwin v Landon Showalter, 2005, submissionwin v Jeremy Horn, 2006, koloss v Quinton Jackson, 2006, decisionwin v Mike Van Arsdale, 2006, submissionwin v Fabio Leopoldo, 2006, submissionloss v Fedor Emelianenko, 2007, submissionwin v Carlos Newton, 2007, submissionwin v Fabio Nascimento, 2008, decisionloss v Ronaldo Souza, 2009, submissionloss v Vitor Belfort, 2009, koloss v Robbie Lawler, 2010, kowin v Kevin Casey, 2010, koloss v Mamed Khalidov, 2011, submission
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1997–2011

SOURCE·Matt Lindland — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-24. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2011 L Mamed Khalidov Submission1
2010 L Robbie Lawler KO/TKO1
2010 W Kevin Casey KO/TKO3
2009 L Ronaldo Souza Submission1
2009 L Vitor Belfort KO/TKO1
2008 W Fabio Nascimento Decision3
2007 L Fedor Emelianenko Submission1
2007 W Carlos Newton Submission2
2006 W Jeremy Horn KO/TKO2
2006 L Quinton Jackson Decision3
2006 W Mike Van Arsdale Submission1
2006 W Fabio Leopoldo Submission3
2005 W Antonio Schembri KO/TKO3
2005 W Joe Doerksen Decision3
2005 W Travis Lutter Submission2
2005 W Landon Showalter Submission1
2004 W Mark Weir KO/TKO1
2004 L David Terrell KO/TKO1
2004 W Tony Fryklund Decision3
2003 W Falaniko Vitale Submission3
2003 W Phil Baroni Decision3
2002 W Ivan Salaverry Decision3
2002 L Murilo Bustamante Submission3
2002 W Pat Miletich KO/TKO1
2001 W Phil Baroni Decision3
2001 W Ricardo Almeida DQ3
2000 W Yoji Anjo KO/TKO1
1997 W Travis Fulton Submission1
1997 W Mark Waters Submission1
1997 W Karo Davtyan KO/TKO1

20 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Matt Lindland — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.79%

74″ reach on a 72″ frame

Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.

-4%heavyweight MMA reach advantage9.9%
Measurements
Reach74″ (188 cm)13th pct
Height72″ (182.9 cm)11th pct
StanceSouthpaw
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2000s — 24 of 30 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

21–9

30 bouts on record

Finish rate

71%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 26th percentile

KO/TKO: 9 (43%)Submission: 6 (29%)Decision: 6 (29%)
  • KO/TKO 43%
  • Submission 29%
  • Decision 29%

The career, bout by bout

30 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2000 2010 win vs Travis Fulton (1997)win vs Mark Waters (1997)win vs Karo Davtyan (1997)win vs Yoji Anjo (2000)win vs Phil Baroni (2001)win vs Ricardo Almeida (2001)win vs Ivan Salaverry (2002)loss vs Murilo Bustamante (2002)win vs Pat Miletich (2002)win vs Falaniko Vitale (2003)win vs Phil Baroni (2003)win vs Mark Weir (2004)loss vs David Terrell (2004)win vs Tony Fryklund (2004)win vs Antonio Schembri (2005)win vs Joe Doerksen (2005)win vs Travis Lutter (2005)win vs Landon Showalter (2005)win vs Jeremy Horn (2006)loss vs Quinton Jackson (2006)win vs Mike Van Arsdale (2006)win vs Fabio Leopoldo (2006)loss vs Fedor Emelianenko (2007)win vs Carlos Newton (2007)win vs Fabio Nascimento (2008)loss vs Ronaldo Souza (2009)loss vs Vitor Belfort (2009)loss vs Robbie Lawler (2010)win vs Kevin Casey (2010)loss vs Mamed Khalidov (2011)
winlossdraw / NC1997–2011

Career span

15y

1997–2011

Longest unbeaten run

7

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2005

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

30

30 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Matt Lindland's record?
21–9 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 30 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.

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