Maurício Rua
76″ reach · +4.1% reach advantage · 64th percentile
27–14
Maurício Rua has a reach of 76″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +4.1%, above average for heavyweight MMA and the 64th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Maurício Rua — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-05
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 2026-05-05. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | L | Ihor Potieria | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | L | Ovince Saint Preux | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Paul Craig | Submission | 2 |
| 2020 | W | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | D | Paul Craig | Draw | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Tyson Pedro | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Anthony Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Gian Villante | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Corey Anderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Ovince Saint Preux | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Dan Henderson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | James Te Huna | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Chael Sonnen | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Alexander Gustafsson | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Brandon Vera | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2011 | L | Dan Henderson | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Forrest Griffin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Jon Jones | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Lyoto Machida | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Lyoto Machida | Decision | 5 |
| 2009 | W | Chuck Liddell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Mark Coleman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Forrest Griffin | Submission | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Alistair Overeem | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Kazuhiro Nakamura | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Kevin Randleman | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Cyrille Diabaté | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Mark Coleman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ricardo Arona | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Quinton Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Hiromitsu Kanehara | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Yasuhito Namekawa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Akihiro Gono | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Akira Shoji | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Renato Sobral | Submission | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Evangelista Santos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Angelo de Oliveira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Rafael Freitas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | W | Alistair Overeem | KO/TKO | — |
| undated | W | Erik Wanderley | KO/TKO | — |
38 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Maurício Rua — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-05
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.1%
76″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 76″ (193 cm) | 33rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 21st pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 20 of 40 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Record
MMA record
27–14
42 bouts on record
Finish rate
81%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 43rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
42 recorded bouts from 2002 to 2023. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
2002–2023
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2003
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
42
40 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Rodney Glunder+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
- Arjan Bhullar+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
- Trevor Prangley+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
- Kimbo Slice+4.04% 77″ reach · 62nd pct
- Bryan Battle+4.04% 77″ reach · 62nd pct
- Shawn Jordan+4.16% 75″ reach · 66th pct
- Kevin Rosier+3.99% 79″ reach · 55th pct
- Josh Parisian+3.99% 79″ reach · 55th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Maurício Rua's record?
- 27–14 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 42 bouts individually.
- How many of Maurício Rua's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 42. 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 Rua sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA20 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Brandon Vera vs Maurício RuaA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2012 Longest unbeaten runsMaurício Rua went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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