Mirko Cro Cop
73″ reach · -1.38% reach advantage · 4th percentile
38–11
Mirko Cro Cop has a reach of 73″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of -1.38%, unusually short for heavyweight MMA and the 4th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Mirko Cro Cop — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
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 2026-07-25. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | W | Roy Nelson | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Roque Martinez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Tsuyoshi Kohsaka | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Amir Aliakbari | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Muhammed Lawal | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Myung Hyun-man | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Gabriel Gonzaga | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Satoshi Ishii | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Alexey Oleynik | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Shinichi Suzukawa | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Roy Nelson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Brendan Schaub | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Frank Mir | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Pat Barry | Submission | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Anthony Perosh | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | L | Junior dos Santos | Submission | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Mostapha al-Turk | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Choi Hong-man | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | N | Alistair Overeem | — | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Tatsuya Mizuno | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Cheick Kongo | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Gabriel Gonzaga | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Eddie Sanchez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Josh Barnett | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Hidehiko Yoshida | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ikuhisa Minowa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Mark Hunt | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Josh Barnett | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | L | Fedor Emelianenko | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Ibragim Magomedov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Mark Coleman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Kevin Randleman | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Josh Barnett | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Alexander Emelianenko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Shungo Oyama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Hiromitsu Kanehara | Decision | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Ron Waterman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Dos Caras Jr. | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Igor Vovchanchyn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Heath Herring | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Kazuyuki Fujita | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | D | Wanderlei Silva | Draw | 5 |
| 2001 | W | Yuji Nagata | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | D | Nobuhiko Takada | Draw | 5 |
| 2001 | W | Kazuyuki Fujita | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | W | Baruto Kaito | KO/TKO | — |
| undated | W | Wanderlei Silva | KO/TKO | — |
40 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Mirko Cro Cop — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-1.38%
73″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 8th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 35th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 33 of 48 dated bouts | |
| Country | Croatia |
Record
MMA record
38–11
51 bouts on record
Finish rate
89%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 58th percentile
The career, bout by bout
50 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2019. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2001–2019
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2004
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
50
48 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Mirko Cro Cop competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 38 | 11 | 30 |
| Kickboxing | 26 | 8 | 13 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Kazuhiro Nakamura 中村和裕-1.39% 70″ reach · 3rd pct
- Anthony Hamilton-1.33% 76″ reach · 4th pct
- Branko Cikatić-1.9% 73″ reach · 2nd pct
- Rico Verhoeven-0.2% 77″ reach · 5th pct
- Artur Szpilka0% 76″ reach · 6th pct
- Lucas Browne0% 77.2″ reach · 6th pct
- Travis Browne0% 79″ reach · 6th pct
- Tyrone Spong0% 74″ reach · 6th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Mirko Cro Cop's record?
- 38–11 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 50 bouts individually.
- How many of Mirko Cro Cop's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 50. 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 Cop sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA33 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Mirko Cro Cop vs Muhammed LawalA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2016 Longest unbeaten runsMirko Cro Cop went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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