Murilo Rua
20–13 · 35 recorded bouts · 2000–2012
20–13
Murilo Rua finished 90% of 20 wins inside the distance — the 59th percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Murilo Rua — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-20
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 2026-06-20. 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 324 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | L | Paulo Filho | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Tom Watson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Roy Boughton | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Jeremy May | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Arturo Arcemendes | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Jason Jones | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Alex Stiebling | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Riki Fukuda | Decision | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Benji Radach | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Tony Bonello | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Xavier Foupa-Pokam | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Robbie Lawler | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Joey Villaseñor | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Alex Reid | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Mark Weir | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Denis Kang | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Paulo Filho | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Murad Chunkaiev | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Quinton Jackson | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Sergei Kharitonov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Alexander Otsuka | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Akira Shoji | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Kevin Randleman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Ricardo Arona | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Mario Sperry | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Alex Andrade | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Dan Henderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Daijiro Matsui | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Rogerio Sagate | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | D | Akihiro Gono | Draw | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Leopoldo Serao | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Luiz Claudio das Dores | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Israel Albuquerque | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Adriano Verdelli | Submission | 1 |
| undated | L | Dan Henderson | — | — |
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Murilo Rua — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-20
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 29 of 34 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Murilo Rua, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
20–13
34 bouts on record
Finish rate
90%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 59th percentile
The career, bout by bout
35 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
2000–2012
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
35
34 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Murilo Rua's record?
- 20–13 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 35 bouts individually.
- How many of Murilo Rua's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 35. 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 MMA29 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMurilo Rua went 5 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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