Tom Erikson
8–4 · 14 recorded bouts · 1996–2008
8–4
Tom Erikson finished 100% of 8 wins inside the distance — the 72nd percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Tom Erikson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24
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 2026-07-24. 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 324 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | L | Alexandru Lungu | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Antônio Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Fabrício Werdum | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Tim Catalfo | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Matt Skelton | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Heath Herring | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Gary Goodridge | Decision | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Ed de Kruijf | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Kevin Randleman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Pantera Negra | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Davin Wright | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | D | Murilo Bustamante | Draw | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Willie Peeters | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Aleksander Khramstovskly | KO/TKO | 1 |
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Tom Erikson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 8 of 14 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Tom Erikson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
8–4
13 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
14 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2008. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
1996–2008
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1997
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
14
14 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Tom Erikson competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Kickboxing | 1 | 4 | 1 |
What this record does and does not say
- What is Tom Erikson's record?
- 8–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 14 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 Erikson sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 1990s MMA8 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsTom Erikson went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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