Yoel Romero
17–7 · 70 recorded bouts · 1997–2026
17–7
Yoel Romero finished 82% of 17 wins inside the distance — the 62nd percentile for middleweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Yoel Romero — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
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 2026-07-29. 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 244 middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W | Alex Nicholson | Submission | 1 |
| 2026 | L | Vagab Vagabov | Decision | 5 |
| 2026 | L | Stephen Buchanan | — | — |
| 2025 | W | Ras Hylton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Theo Doukaus | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2025 | W | Pat Downey | — | — |
| 2024 | W | Thiago Santos | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Duane Crespo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2023 | L | Vadim Nemkov | Decision | 5 |
| 2022 | W | Melvin Manhoef | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Alex Polizzi | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Phil Davis | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Israel Adesanya | Decision | 5 |
| 2019 | L | Paulo Costa | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Chris Barnett | Submission | — |
| 2018 | L | Robert Whittaker | Decision | 5 |
| 2018 | W | Luke Rockhold | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Robert Whittaker | Decision | 5 |
| 2016 | W | Chris Weidman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Ronaldo Souza | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Lyoto Machida | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Tim Kennedy | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Brad Tavares | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Derek Brunson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Ronny Markes | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Clifford Starks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Rafael Cavalcante | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Laszlo Eck | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Ņikita Petrovs | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Michał Fijałka | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Sascha Weinpolter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Revaz Mindorashvili | — | — |
| 2004 | L | Sazhid Sazhidov | — | — |
| 2003 | L | Sazhid Sazhidov | — | — |
| 2002 | L | Adam Saitiev | — | — |
| 2001 | W | Beibulat Musaev | — | — |
| 2000 | L | Adam Saitiev | — | — |
| 1999 | W | Khadzhimurad Magomedov | — | — |
| 1998 | W | Khadzhimurad Magomedov | — | — |
| 1997 | L | Soslan Fraev | — | — |
| undated | W | Taras Danko | — | — |
| undated | W | Soslan Gattsiev | — | — |
| undated | W | Radosław Horbik | — | — |
| undated | W | Abraham Vasallo | — | — |
| undated | L | Cael Sanderson | — | — |
| undated | W | Lazaros Loizidis | — | — |
| undated | W | Davyd Bichinashvili | — | — |
| undated | W | Jeffrey Cobb | — | — |
| undated | L | Mogamed Ibragimov | — | — |
| undated | W | Thomas Bucheli | — | — |
| undated | W | Marcin Jurecki | — | — |
| undated | W | Majid Khodaei | — | — |
| undated | W | Revaz Mindorashvili | — | — |
| undated | W | Katsutoshi Senba | — | — |
| undated | W | Gabor Kapuvari | — | — |
| undated | L | Khadzhimurad Magomedov | — | — |
| undated | W | Andre Backhaus | — | — |
| undated | W | Mahmed Aghaev | — | — |
| undated | W | Amir Reza Khadem | — | — |
| undated | W | Justin Abdou | — | — |
Showing 60 of 70 recorded bouts, most recent first.
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Yoel Romero — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 2: light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 17 of 40 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Yoel Romero, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
17–7
24 bouts on record
Finish rate
82%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 62nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
70 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
30y
1997–2026
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2011
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
70
40 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Yoel Romero's record?
- 17–7 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 70 bouts individually.
- How many of Yoel Romero's bouts have no date?
- 30 of 70. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- 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 244 middleweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Romero sits inside.
244 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA17 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Luke Rockhold vs Yoel RomeroA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2018 Longest unbeaten runsYoel Romero went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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