Royce Gracie
76.4″ reach · +6.07% reach advantage · 97th percentile
15–2
Royce Gracie has a reach of 76.4″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +6.07%, exceptional for light heavyweight MMA and the 97th percentile of the 88 compared here.
SOURCE·Royce Gracie — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-09
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 2026-04-09. 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 88 light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | W | Ken Shamrock | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Kazushi Sakuraba | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Matt Hughes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | D | Hideo Tokoro | Draw | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Akebono Taro | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | D | Hidehiko Yoshida | Draw | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2000 | W | Nobuhiko Takada | Decision | 1 |
| 1995 | D | Ken Shamrock | Draw | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Dan Severn | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Kimo Leopoldo | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Patrick Smith | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Gerard Gordeau | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Keith Hackney | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Ron van Clief | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Remco Pardoel | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Jason DeLucia | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Minoki Ichihara | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Ken Shamrock | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Art Jimmerson | Submission | — |
18 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Royce Gracie — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-09
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.07%
76.4″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.
| Reach | 76.4″ (194 cm) | 71st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 25th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 7 of 13 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Record
MMA record
15–2
20 bouts on record
Finish rate
87%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 66th percentile
The career, bout by bout
20 recorded bouts from 1993 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
24y
1993–2016
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1994
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
20
13 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Deron Winn+6.09% 70″ reach · 98th pct
- Terry Martin+5.93% 71″ reach · 95th pct
- Roberto Soldić+5.74% 74″ reach · 94th pct
- Darko Stošić+5.52% 76″ reach · 92nd pct
- Alonzo Menifield+5.52% 76″ reach · 92nd pct
- Mike Swick+5.5% 77″ reach · 91st pct
- Andreas Michailidis+5.49% 75.6″ reach · 90th pct
- Stephan Bonnar+6.67% 80″ reach · 99th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Royce Gracie's record?
- 15–2 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 20 bouts individually.
- How many of Royce Gracie's bouts have no date?
- 7 of 20. 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 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Gracie sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA7 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Patrick Smith vs Royce GracieA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1994