Rafael Natal
76″ reach · +5.52% reach advantage · 75th percentile
21–9
Rafael Natal has a reach of 76″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +5.52%, long for middleweight MMA and the 75th percentile of the 139 compared here.
SOURCE·Rafael Natal — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-23
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 2026-07-23. 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 139 middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | L | Eryk Anders | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | L | Tim Boetsch | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | L | Robert Whittaker | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Kevin Casey | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Uriah Hall | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Tom Watson | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Chris Camozzi | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Ed Herman | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | L | Tim Kennedy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Tor Troéng | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | João Zeferino | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Sean Spencer | Submission | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Andrew Craig | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Michael Kuiper | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Paul Bradley | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | D | Jesse Bongfeldt | Draw | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Rich Attonito | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Travis Lutter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Allan Weickert | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Victor O'Donnell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Plinio Cruz | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Alexandre Moreno | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Jon Kirk | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Eduardo Telles | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Silmar Rodrigo | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Gerson Silva | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Nailson Bahia | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Danillo Villefort | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Carlos Eduardo dos Santos | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Walter Luis | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Emerson Avila | Submission | 1 |
11 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Rafael Natal — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-23
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.52%
76″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 139 middleweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 76″ (193 cm) | 65th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 38th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 18 of 31 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Record
MMA record
21–9
31 bouts on record
Finish rate
57%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 19th percentile
The career, bout by bout
31 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2017. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
2005–2017
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2009
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
31
31 with a date
Closest in build
middleweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Nick Maximov+5.52% 76″ reach · 75th pct
- Ikram Aliskerov+5.52% 76″ reach · 75th pct
- Rory MacDonald+5.52% 76″ reach · 75th pct
- Dricus du Plessis+5.52% 76″ reach · 75th pct
- Kamaru Usman+5.52% 76″ reach · 75th pct
- Jesse Juarez+5.5% 77″ reach · 73rd pct
- Vitor Miranda+5.5% 77″ reach · 73rd pct
- Derek Brunson+5.5% 77″ reach · 73rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Rafael Natal's record?
- 21–9 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 31 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 244 middleweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Natal sits inside.
244 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA18 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsRafael Natal went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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