Soa Palelei
81″ reach · +6.58% reach advantage · 87th percentile
22–5
Soa Palelei has a reach of 81″ against a height of 76″ — a reach advantage of +6.58%, long for heavyweight MMA and the 87th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Soa Palelei — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-09-23
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 2025-09-23. 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | L | Antônio Silva | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Walt Harris | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | L | Jared Rosholt | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Ruan Potts | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Pat Barry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Nikita Krylov | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Sean McCorkle | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Bob Sapp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Joe Kielur | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Shunske Inoue | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Henry Miller | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Matt Walker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Son Hai Suk | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Yusuke Kawaguchi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Daniel Cormier | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Brad Morris | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Leamy Tato | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Eddie Sanchez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Shaun Vanof | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Choi Mu-Bae | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Vince Lucero | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Lance Cartwright | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Christian Wellisch | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Don Richards | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Edwin Montevgini | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Gerald Burton-Batty | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Brad Morris | KO/TKO | 4 |
11 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Soa Palelei — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-09-23
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.58%
81″ reach on a 76″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 81″ (205.7 cm) | 85th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | 68th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 16 of 27 dated bouts | |
| Country | Australia |
Record
MMA record
22–5
27 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
27 recorded bouts from 2002 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
2002–2015
Longest unbeaten run
12
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2012
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
27
27 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Ben Rothwell+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Cheick Kongo+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Jake Hager+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Matt Skelton+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Bob Sapp+6.49% 82″ reach · 86th pct
- Juan Espino+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Johnny Walker+6.49% 82″ reach · 86th pct
- Ovince Saint Preux+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Soa Palelei's record?
- 22–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 27 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 Palelei sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA16 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Daniel Cormier vs Soa PaleleiA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2010 Longest unbeaten runsSoa Palelei went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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