Michael Chandler
71″ reach · +4.4% reach advantage · 80th percentile
23–11
Michael Chandler has a reach of 71″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +4.4%, long for lightweight MMA and the 80th percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·Michael Chandler — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-30
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 2026-07-30. 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 161 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | L | Maurício Ruffy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2025 | L | Paddy Pimblett | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Chad Mendes | — | — |
| 2024 | L | Charles Oliveira | Decision | 5 |
| 2022 | L | Dustin Poirier | Submission | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Tony Ferguson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2021 | L | Justin Gaethje | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Charles Oliveira | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2021 | W | Dan Hooker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2020 | W | Benson Henderson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Sidney Outlaw | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Patrício Pitbull | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Brent Primus | Decision | 5 |
| 2018 | W | Brandon Girtz | Submission | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Goiti Yamauchi | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Brent Primus | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Benson Henderson | Decision | 5 |
| 2016 | W | Patricky Pitbull | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | David Rickels | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Derek Campos | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Will Brooks | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2013 | L | Eddie Alvarez | Decision | 5 |
| 2013 | W | David Rickels | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Rick Hawn | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Akihiro Gono | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Eddie Alvarez | Submission | 4 |
| 2011 | W | Patricky Pitbull | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Lloyd Woodard | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Marcin Held | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Chris Page | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Scott Stapp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Sal Woods | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Richard Bouphanouvong | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Kyle Swadley | KO/TKO | 1 |
27 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Michael Chandler — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-30
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.4%
71″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 49th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 21st pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 2: welterweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 22 of 34 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
23–11
34 bouts on record
Finish rate
78%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 67th percentile
The career, bout by bout
34 recorded bouts from 2009 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
2009–2026
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2011
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
34
34 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Dakota Cochrane+4.4% 71″ reach · 80th pct
- Bradley Riddell+4.4% 71″ reach · 80th pct
- Ricardo Lamas+4.4% 71″ reach · 80th pct
- Tyson Griffin+4.42% 68.9″ reach · 82nd pct
- Caros Fodor+4.34% 72″ reach · 75th pct
- Gadzhi Rabadanov+4.34% 72″ reach · 75th pct
- Dennis Hallman+4.34% 72″ reach · 75th pct
- Kang Kyung-Ho+4.34% 72″ reach · 75th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Michael Chandler's record?
- 23–11 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 34 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.
Where this record leads
The 304 lightweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Chandler sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA22 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMichael Chandler went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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