Thiago Alves
68″ reach · -2.87% reach advantage · 1st percentile
23–15
Thiago Alves has a reach of 68″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of -2.87%, unusually short for lightweight MMA and the 1st percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·Thiago Alves (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-17
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 2026-07-17. 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 161 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | L | Mike Perry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2021 | W | Ulysses Diaz | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Julian Lane | Decision | 5 |
| 2019 | L | Tim Means | Submission | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Laureano Staropoli | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Max Griffin | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Alexey Kunchenko | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Curtis Millender | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Patrick Côté | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Jim Miller | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Carlos Condit | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Jordan Mein | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Seth Baczynski | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Martin Kampmann | Submission | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Papy Abedi | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Rick Story | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | John Howard | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Jon Fitch | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Georges St-Pierre | Decision | 5 |
| 2008 | W | Josh Koscheck | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Matt Hughes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Karo Parisyan | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Chris Lytle | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Kuniyoshi Hironaka | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Tony DeSouza | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | John Alessio | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Jon Fitch | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Derrick Noble | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ansar Chalangov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Spencer Fisher | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Jeff Cox | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Jason Chambers | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Nuri Shakir | Decision | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Derrick Noble | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Marcus Davis | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Mike Littlefield | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Carlos Alexandre Pereira | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Fabio Holanda | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Wilson Belchoir | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Lucas Lopes | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Gleison Tibau | Submission | 2 |
28 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Thiago Alves (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-17
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-2.87%
68″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 6th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 58th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 2: welterweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 23 of 41 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Record
MMA record
23–15
38 bouts on record
Finish rate
61%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 34th percentile
The career, bout by bout
41 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
24y
2001–2024
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2003
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
41
41 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Magomed Zaynukov-2.87% 68″ reach · 1st pct
- Kayla Harrison-2.95% 66″ reach · 1st pct
- Uroš Medić-2.75% 71″ reach · 2nd pct
- Naoyuki Kotani 小谷直之-2.2% 66.5″ reach · 3rd pct
- Mateusz Rębecki-1.53% 66″ reach · 4th pct
- Akop Stepanyan Акоп Степанян Հակոբ Ստեփանյան-1.48% 68″ reach · 4th pct
- Jared Gordon-1.48% 68″ reach · 4th pct
- Esteban Ribovics-1.41% 69″ reach · 6th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Thiago Alves's record?
- 23–15 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 41 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 304 lightweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Alves sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA23 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsThiago Alves went 6 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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