What light heavyweight MMA fighters actually measure — 185 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.
median reach advantage
+2.68%
Across the 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 2.68% — a median reach of 75.3″ on a median height of 73″.
78% fight orthodox.
SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026
Cohort profile
The division's shape
Median reach
75.3″
191.15 cm
Median height
73″
185.4 cm
Median reach advantage
2.68%
of body height
Median finish rate
78%
of wins inside the distance
Fighters
185
88 with a reach on file
-1.4%light heavyweight MMA reach advantage6.1%
Stance
orthodox78%
southpaw21%
switch1%
By era
2010s86
2000s62
1990s18
2020s16
By country
United States68
Brazil28
Japan14
Russia11
United Kingdom9
Canada7
Sweden5
Poland5
New Zealand4
Australia4
How this division is compiled
Every published fighter this site files under light heavyweight MMA — 185 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
Medians, not means — one outlier should not move the typical figure.
A cohort is only published at 30 fighters or more. Below that a median is a rumour, so no page is emitted and nothing links to one.
How many light heavyweight MMA fighters have a reach on record?
88 of 185. Reach is stated in the English Wikipedia infobox for those and absent for the rest, so every reach figure on this page — including the median — describes only the 88. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for light heavyweight MMA?
That the typical light heavyweight MMA fighter's reach exceeds their height by 2.68% of that height. It is a ratio rather than a raw span, so it compares directly against any other cohort on this site — which a reach in inches does not. Half of these fighters are above it and half below; it is not a standard or a target.
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