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Will Brooks

26–5 · 30 recorded bouts · 2011–2023

MMA record

26–5

Will Brooks finished 50% of 26 wins inside the distance — the 11th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

20102020win v Ryan Bixler, 2011, submissionwin v Joseph Richardson, 2011, submissionwin v Bobby Reardanz, 2011, submissionwin v Guillermo Serment, 2011, submissionwin v J.R. Hines, 2011, kowin v Satoru Kitaoka, 2012, kowin v Drew Dober, 2012, decisionwin v Tory Bogguess, 2012, kowin v Alexander Sarnavskiy, 2013, decisionwin v Saad Awad, 2013, decisionwin v John Alessio, 2013, decisionwin v Cris Leyva, 2013, kowin v Ricardo Tirloni, 2013, decisionwin v Michael Chandler, 2014, kowin v Marcin Held, 2015, decisionwin v Dave Jansen, 2015, decisionloss v Alex Oliveira, 2016, kowin v Ross Pearson, 2016, decisionloss v Nik Lentz, 2017, submissionloss v Charles Oliveira, 2017, submissiondraw v Rashid Magomedov, 2018, drawwin v Robert Watley, 2018, decisionwin v Luiz Firmino, 2018, decisionloss v Gleison Tibau, 2019, submissionwin v Jose Filho, 2021, submissionwin v Steven Siler, 2021, decisionwin v Luis Peña, 2022, decisionwin v Rafael Bastos, 2022, kowin v Predrag Bogdanović, 2023, kowin v Jhonasky Sojo, 2023, submission
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2011–2023

SOURCE·Will Brooks — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-05

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 2026-05-05. 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 304 lightweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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
2023 W Predrag Bogdanović KO/TKO5
2023 W Jhonasky Sojo Submission3
2022 W Luis Peña Decision3
2022 W Rafael Bastos KO/TKO1
2021 W Jose Filho Submission3
2021 W Steven Siler Decision3
2019 L Gleison Tibau Submission1
2018 D Rashid Magomedov Draw2
2018 W Robert Watley Decision3
2018 W Luiz Firmino Decision3
2017 L Nik Lentz Submission2
2017 L Charles Oliveira Submission1
2016 L Alex Oliveira KO/TKO3
2016 W Ross Pearson Decision3
2015 W Marcin Held Decision5
2015 W Dave Jansen Decision5
2014 W Michael Chandler KO/TKO4
2013 W Alexander Sarnavskiy Decision3
2013 W Saad Awad Decision3
2013 W John Alessio Decision3
2013 W Cris Leyva KO/TKO3
2013 W Ricardo Tirloni Decision3
2012 W Satoru Kitaoka KO/TKO2
2012 W Drew Dober Decision3
2012 W Tory Bogguess KO/TKO1
2011 W Ryan Bixler Submission2
2011 W Joseph Richardson Submission1
2011 W Bobby Reardanz Submission3
2011 W Guillermo Serment Submission2
2011 W J.R. Hines KO/TKO1

16 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Will Brooks — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-05

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height71″ (180.3 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionLightweight MMA
Most active decade2010s — 24 of 30 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Will Brooks, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2020 win vs Ryan Bixler (2011)win vs Joseph Richardson (2011)win vs Bobby Reardanz (2011)win vs Guillermo Serment (2011)win vs J.R. Hines (2011)win vs Satoru Kitaoka (2012)win vs Drew Dober (2012)win vs Tory Bogguess (2012)win vs Alexander Sarnavskiy (2013)win vs Saad Awad (2013)win vs John Alessio (2013)win vs Cris Leyva (2013)win vs Ricardo Tirloni (2013)win vs Michael Chandler (2014)win vs Marcin Held (2015)win vs Dave Jansen (2015)loss vs Alex Oliveira (2016)win vs Ross Pearson (2016)loss vs Nik Lentz (2017)loss vs Charles Oliveira (2017)draw vs Rashid Magomedov (2018)win vs Robert Watley (2018)win vs Luiz Firmino (2018)loss vs Gleison Tibau (2019)win vs Jose Filho (2021)win vs Steven Siler (2021)win vs Luis Peña (2022)win vs Rafael Bastos (2022)win vs Predrag Bogdanović (2023)win vs Jhonasky Sojo (2023)
winlossdraw / NC2011–2023

Record

MMA record

26–5

32 bouts on record

Finish rate

50%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 11th percentile

KO/TKO: 7 (27%)Submission: 6 (23%)Decision: 13 (50%)
  • KO/TKO 27%
  • Submission 23%
  • Decision 50%

The career, bout by bout

30 recorded bouts from 2011 to 2023. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

13y

2011–2023

Longest unbeaten run

16

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2011

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

30

30 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Will Brooks's record?
26–5 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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