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Tom Niinimäki

69″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 7th percentile

MMA record

22–8

Tom Niinimäki has a reach of 69″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for featherweight MMA and the 7th percentile of the 119 compared here.

20002010loss v Per Eklund, 2002, kowin v Janne Salminen, 2002, kowin v Mikael Lahdesmäki, 2002, kowin v Ville Honkala, 2003, kowin v Teemu Nurkkala, 2003, koloss v Mikael Lahdesmäki, 2003, decisionwin v Andre Soares, 2004, decisionwin v Patrick Rahael, 2004, kowin v Vincent Latoel, 2004, kowin v Carlos Carrasco, 2004, submissionloss v Hatsu Hioki, 2005, submissionloss v Danny Batten, 2005, decisiondraw v Bendy Casimir, 2005, drawloss v Tristan Yunker, 2006, submissionwin v Bogdan Cristea, 2007, decisionwin v Sergej Grecicho, 2010, decisionwin v Dave Hill, 2010, decisionwin v Ben Boekee, 2010, submissionwin v Yunus Evloev, 2010, submissionwin v Lautaro Arborelo, 2010, submissionwin v Johnny Frachey, 2011, kowin v Vladimir Karasiov, 2012, submissionwin v Brian Pearman, 2012, submissionwin v Rani Yahya, 2013, decisionwin v Walel Watson, 2013, submissionwin v Chase Beebe, 2013, decisionloss v Renato Moicano, 2014, submissionloss v Chas Skelly, 2014, submissionloss v Niklas Bäckström, 2014, submissionwin v Jonathan Brookins, 2016, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2002–2016

SOURCE·Tom Niinimäki — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-02-13

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 2025-02-13. 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 119 featherweight 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 W Jonathan Brookins Decision3
2014 L Renato Moicano Submission2
2014 L Chas Skelly Submission1
2014 L Niklas Bäckström Submission1
2013 W Rani Yahya Decision3
2013 W Walel Watson Submission2
2013 W Chase Beebe Decision3
2012 W Vladimir Karasiov Submission1
2012 W Brian Pearman Submission2
2011 W Johnny Frachey KO/TKO1
2010 W Sergej Grecicho Decision3
2010 W Dave Hill Decision3
2010 W Ben Boekee Submission1
2010 W Yunus Evloev Submission1
2010 W Lautaro Arborelo Submission2
2007 W Bogdan Cristea Decision3
2006 L Tristan Yunker Submission1
2005 L Hatsu Hioki Submission1
2005 L Danny Batten Decision5
2005 D Bendy Casimir Draw2
2004 W Andre Soares Decision3
2004 W Patrick Rahael KO/TKO—
2004 W Vincent Latoel KO/TKO2
2004 W Carlos Carrasco Submission1
2003 W Ville Honkala KO/TKO1
2003 W Teemu Nurkkala KO/TKO1
2003 L Mikael Lahdesmäki Decision2
2002 L Per Eklund KO/TKO1
2002 W Janne Salminen KO/TKO1
2002 W Mikael Lahdesmäki KO/TKO1

9 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Tom Niinimäki — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-02-13

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

69″ reach on a 69″ frame

Compared against 119 featherweight MMA fighters. Median 2.75%.

-1.5%featherweight MMA reach advantage8.2%
Measurements
Reach69″ (175.3 cm)29th pct
Height69″ (175.3 cm)59th pct
Stance—
DivisionFeatherweight MMA
Most active decade2000s — 15 of 30 dated bouts
CountryFinland

Record

MMA record

22–8

31 bouts on record

Finish rate

68%

of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight MMA median 65%, 55th percentile

KO/TKO: 7 (32%)Submission: 8 (36%)Decision: 7 (32%)
  • KO/TKO 32%
  • Submission 36%
  • Decision 32%

The career, bout by bout

30 recorded bouts from 2002 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2010 loss vs Per Eklund (2002)win vs Janne Salminen (2002)win vs Mikael Lahdesmäki (2002)win vs Ville Honkala (2003)win vs Teemu Nurkkala (2003)loss vs Mikael Lahdesmäki (2003)win vs Andre Soares (2004)win vs Patrick Rahael (2004)win vs Vincent Latoel (2004)win vs Carlos Carrasco (2004)loss vs Hatsu Hioki (2005)loss vs Danny Batten (2005)draw vs Bendy Casimir (2005)loss vs Tristan Yunker (2006)win vs Bogdan Cristea (2007)win vs Sergej Grecicho (2010)win vs Dave Hill (2010)win vs Ben Boekee (2010)win vs Yunus Evloev (2010)win vs Lautaro Arborelo (2010)win vs Johnny Frachey (2011)win vs Vladimir Karasiov (2012)win vs Brian Pearman (2012)win vs Rani Yahya (2013)win vs Walel Watson (2013)win vs Chase Beebe (2013)loss vs Renato Moicano (2014)loss vs Chas Skelly (2014)loss vs Niklas Bäckström (2014)win vs Jonathan Brookins (2016)
winlossdraw / NC2002–2016

Career span

15y

2002–2016

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2010

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

30

30 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Tom Niinimäki's record?
22–8 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 30 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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