Paulo Filho
70″ reach · +2.95% reach advantage · 48th percentile
23–6
Paulo Filho has a reach of 70″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +2.95%, average for heavyweight MMA and the 48th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Paulo Filho — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01
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 2026-08-01. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | W | Mohammad Ashraf Gahi | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | L | André Muniz | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | D | Rodney Wallace | Draw | 3 |
| 2013 | L | David Branch | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Murilo Rua | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | D | Satoshi Ishii | Draw | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Norman Paraisy | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Ronny Markes | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Jackson Mora | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Yuki Sasaki | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Marcos Rogério de Lima | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | D | Denis Kang | Draw | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Daniel Villegas | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Tatsuhiko Nishizaka | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Alex Schoenauer | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Melvin Manhoef | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Chael Sonnen | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Chael Sonnen | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Joe Doerksen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Kazuo Misaki | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ryo Chonan | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Gregory Bouchelaghem | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Murilo Rua | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Ryuta Sakurai | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Amar Suloev | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Akira Shoji | Decision | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Daijiro Matsui | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Silmar Rodrigo | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Akira Shoji | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Yuki Kondo | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Ikuhisa Minowa | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Keiichiro Yamamiya | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Luiz Claudio das Dores | Submission | 2 |
23 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Paulo Filho — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.95%
70″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 0th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 1st pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 20 of 33 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Record
MMA record
23–6
32 bouts on record
Finish rate
57%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 10th percentile
The career, bout by bout
33 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2018. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2000–2018
Longest unbeaten run
16
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
33
33 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Mark Hunt+2.87% 72″ reach · 46th pct
- Erko Jun+2.87% 72″ reach · 46th pct
- Errol Zimmerman+3.09% 77.5″ reach · 49th pct
- Ibragim Chuzhigaev+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Justin Tafa+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Daniel Omielańczuk+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Matt Lindland+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
- Evan Tanner+2.79% 74″ reach · 43rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Paulo Filho's record?
- 23–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 33 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 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Filho 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 Longest unbeaten runsPaulo Filho went 16 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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