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Roger Bowling

70″ reach · +2.95% reach advantage · 59th percentile

MMA record

12–6

Roger Bowling has a reach of 70″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +2.95%, above average for welterweight MMA and the 59th percentile of the 174 compared here.

20002010win v Michael Skiba, 2007, submissionwin v Chris Runge, 2007, kowin v Paul Mann, 2008, submissionwin v Shamar Bailey, 2008, kowin v Devon Plaisance, 2009, kowin v Seth Baczynski, 2009, koloss v Bobby Voelker, 2010, kowin v Jerrod Appenzeller, 2010, kowin v Jerron Peoples, 2011, koloss v Bobby Voelker, 2011, kowin v Josh Thornburg, 2011, decisionloss v Tarec Saffiedine, 2012, decisionwin v Brandon Saling, 2012, koloss v Abel Trujillo, 2013, koloss v Anthony Njokuani, 2013, kowin v Joshua Thorpe, 2015, koloss v Nicolae Cury, 2016, submission
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2007–2016

SOURCE·Roger Bowling (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-02-26

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-02-26. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 174 welterweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2016 L Nicolae Cury Submission1
2015 W Joshua Thorpe KO/TKO1
2013 L Abel Trujillo KO/TKO2
2013 L Anthony Njokuani KO/TKO2
2012 L Tarec Saffiedine Decision3
2012 W Brandon Saling KO/TKO2
2011 W Jerron Peoples KO/TKO1
2011 L Bobby Voelker KO/TKO2
2011 W Josh Thornburg Decision3
2010 L Bobby Voelker KO/TKO2
2010 W Jerrod Appenzeller KO/TKO2
2009 W Devon Plaisance KO/TKO1
2009 W Seth Baczynski KO/TKO1
2008 W Paul Mann Submission1
2008 W Shamar Bailey KO/TKO1
2007 W Michael Skiba Submission1
2007 W Chris Runge KO/TKO1

4 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Roger Bowling (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-02-26

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.95%

70″ reach on a 68″ frame

Compared against 174 welterweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.

-2.7%welterweight MMA reach advantage8.6%
Measurements
Reach70″ (177.8 cm)5th pct
Height68″ (172.7 cm)5th pct
Stance—
DivisionWelterweight MMA
competed at 2: lightweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2010s — 11 of 17 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

12–6

18 bouts on record

Finish rate

83%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 76th percentile

KO/TKO: 8 (67%)Submission: 2 (17%)Decision: 2 (17%)
  • KO/TKO 67%
  • Submission 17%
  • Decision 17%

The career, bout by bout

17 recorded bouts from 2007 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2010 win vs Michael Skiba (2007)win vs Chris Runge (2007)win vs Paul Mann (2008)win vs Shamar Bailey (2008)win vs Devon Plaisance (2009)win vs Seth Baczynski (2009)loss vs Bobby Voelker (2010)win vs Jerrod Appenzeller (2010)win vs Jerron Peoples (2011)loss vs Bobby Voelker (2011)win vs Josh Thornburg (2011)loss vs Tarec Saffiedine (2012)win vs Brandon Saling (2012)loss vs Abel Trujillo (2013)loss vs Anthony Njokuani (2013)win vs Joshua Thorpe (2015)loss vs Nicolae Cury (2016)
winlossdraw / NC2007–2016

Career span

10y

2007–2016

Longest unbeaten run

6

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2011

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

17

17 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Roger Bowling's record?
12–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 17 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.

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