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Vince Morales

70″ reach · +4.47% reach advantage · 74th percentile

MMA record

16–11

Vince Morales has a reach of 70″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +4.47%, above average for bantamweight MMA and the 74th percentile of the 101 compared here.

20102020loss v Josh Wick, 2015, submissionwin v Jeremie Montgomery, 2015, kowin v Joseph Cleveland, 2015, submissionwin v Andrew Cruz, 2016, kowin v Hamilton Ash, 2016, kowin v Patrick Trey Smith, 2016, kowin v Rowdy Akers, 2017, submissionloss v Song Yadong, 2018, decisionwin v Justin Hugo, 2018, decisionloss v Domingo Pilarte, 2018, submissionwin v Brandon Hempleman, 2018, koloss v Benito Lopez, 2019, decisionwin v Aiemann Zahabi, 2019, decisionloss v Chris Gutiérrez, 2020, kowin v Louis Smolka, 2021, kowin v Drako Rodriguez, 2021, decisionloss v Miles Johns, 2022, decisionloss v Jonathan Martinez, 2022, decisionwin v Yuki Motoya, 2023, decisionwin v Joe Penafiel, 2023, kowin v Teruto Ishihara, 2023, submissionloss v Taylor Lapilus, 2024, decisionwin v Hunter Azure, 2024, submissionwin v Luis Guerrero, 2024, submissionloss v Raul Rosas Jr., 2025, decisionloss v Elijah Smith, 2025, decisionloss v Colby Thicknesse, 2026, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2015–2026

SOURCE·Vince Morales — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-29

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 2026-05-29. 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 101 bantamweight 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
2026 L Colby Thicknesse Decision3
2025 L Raul Rosas Jr. Decision3
2025 L Elijah Smith Decision3
2024 L Taylor Lapilus Decision3
2024 W Hunter Azure Submission3
2024 W Luis Guerrero Submission2
2023 W Yuki Motoya Decision3
2023 W Joe Penafiel KO/TKO2
2023 W Teruto Ishihara Submission3
2022 L Miles Johns Decision3
2022 L Jonathan Martinez Decision3
2021 W Louis Smolka KO/TKO1
2021 W Drako Rodriguez Decision3
2020 L Chris Gutiérrez KO/TKO2
2019 L Benito Lopez Decision3
2019 W Aiemann Zahabi Decision3
2018 L Song Yadong Decision3
2018 W Justin Hugo Decision3
2018 L Domingo Pilarte Submission2
2018 W Brandon Hempleman KO/TKO2
2017 W Rowdy Akers Submission1
2016 W Andrew Cruz KO/TKO3
2016 W Hamilton Ash KO/TKO3
2016 W Patrick Trey Smith KO/TKO1
2015 L Josh Wick Submission2
2015 W Jeremie Montgomery KO/TKO1
2015 W Joseph Cleveland Submission1

9 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Vince Morales — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-29

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+4.47%

70″ reach on a 67″ frame

Compared against 101 bantamweight MMA fighters. Median 1.51%.

-2.9%bantamweight MMA reach advantage8.9%
Measurements
Reach70″ (177.8 cm)67th pct
Height67″ (170.2 cm)45th pct
Stance—
DivisionBantamweight MMA
competed at 2: featherweight, bantamweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2020s — 14 of 27 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

16–11

27 bouts on record

Finish rate

75%

of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight MMA median 68%, 65th percentile

KO/TKO: 7 (44%)Submission: 5 (31%)Decision: 4 (25%)
  • KO/TKO 44%
  • Submission 31%
  • Decision 25%

The career, bout by bout

27 recorded bouts from 2015 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2020 loss vs Josh Wick (2015)win vs Jeremie Montgomery (2015)win vs Joseph Cleveland (2015)win vs Andrew Cruz (2016)win vs Hamilton Ash (2016)win vs Patrick Trey Smith (2016)win vs Rowdy Akers (2017)loss vs Song Yadong (2018)win vs Justin Hugo (2018)loss vs Domingo Pilarte (2018)win vs Brandon Hempleman (2018)loss vs Benito Lopez (2019)win vs Aiemann Zahabi (2019)loss vs Chris Gutiérrez (2020)win vs Louis Smolka (2021)win vs Drako Rodriguez (2021)loss vs Miles Johns (2022)loss vs Jonathan Martinez (2022)win vs Yuki Motoya (2023)win vs Joe Penafiel (2023)win vs Teruto Ishihara (2023)loss vs Taylor Lapilus (2024)win vs Hunter Azure (2024)win vs Luis Guerrero (2024)loss vs Raul Rosas Jr. (2025)loss vs Elijah Smith (2025)loss vs Colby Thicknesse (2026)
winlossdraw / NC2015–2026

Career span

12y

2015–2026

Longest unbeaten run

6

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2018

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

27

27 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Vince Morales's record?
16–11 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.

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