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Lightweight MMA

What lightweight MMA fighters actually measure — 304 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+2.83%

Across the 304 lightweight MMA fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 2.83% — a median reach of 71″ on a median height of 69″. 67% fight orthodox.

SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

Cohort profile

The division's shape

Median reach

71″

180.3 cm

Median height

69″

175.3 cm

Median reach advantage

2.83%

of body height

Median finish rate

69%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

304

161 with a reach on file

-2.9%lightweight MMA reach advantage7.4%

Stance

  • orthodox67%
  • southpaw31%
  • switch2%

By era

  • 2010s165
  • 2000s97
  • 2020s33
  • 1990s6

By country

  • United States109
  • Brazil42
  • Japan36
  • Russia15
  • Canada12
  • United Kingdom12
  • South Korea7
  • Poland6
  • Mexico6
  • Sweden4

How this division is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under lightweight MMA — 304 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Medians, not means — one outlier should not move the typical figure.
  4. 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.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Longest reach for the frame

lightweight MMA — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Sidney Outlaw74″68″+8.86%
2Mark Bocek75″69″+8.67%
3Thanh J. Le74.5″69″+7.93%
4Luigi Vendramini73″68″+7.35%
5Yoshihiro Akiyama75″70″+7.14%
6John Lineker67″63″+6.37%
7Nam Phan70″66″+6.09%
8Gleison Tibau70″66″+6.09%
9Mike Brown70″66″+6.09%
10Ottman Azaitar71″67″+5.93%
11Gregor Gillespie71″67″+5.93%
12Chris Brennan72″68″+5.91%
13Joanderson Brito72″68″+5.91%
14Ivan Jorge74″70″+5.74%
15Pat Healy74″70″+5.74%
16Edson Barboza75″71″+5.66%
17Maurício Ruffy75″71″+5.66%
18Jai Herbert77″73″+5.5%
19Themba Gorimbo77″73″+5.5%
20Daniel Zellhuber77″73″+5.5%
21Rob Font71.5″68″+5.15%
22Damian Rzepecki73.6″70″+5.12%
23Manuel Torres73.5″70″+5.01%
24Cindy Dandois70″67″+4.47%
25Caol Uno70″67″+4.47%
26Rafa García70″67″+4.47%
27Renan Barão70″67″+4.47%
28José Aldo70″67″+4.47%
29Tyson Griffin68.9″66″+4.42%
30Dakota Cochrane71″68″+4.4%
31Bradley Riddell71″68″+4.4%
32Ricardo Lamas71″68″+4.4%
33Michael Chandler71″68″+4.4%
34Caros Fodor72″69″+4.34%
35Gadzhi Rabadanov72″69″+4.34%
36Dennis Hallman72″69″+4.34%
37Kang Kyung-Ho72″69″+4.34%
38Natan Levy72″69″+4.34%
39Dustin Poirier72″69″+4.34%
40Jung Chan-sung72″69″+4.34%

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SOURCE·English Wikipedia infoboxes + Wikidata roster·REVIEWED AUG 2026

All 304 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many lightweight MMA fighters have a reach on record?
161 of 304. 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 161. It is not extrapolated to the others.
What does the median reach advantage mean for lightweight MMA?
That the typical lightweight MMA fighter's reach exceeds their height by 2.83% 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.
Cross-references
Welterweight boxing

The nearest cohort in size to lightweight MMA — 304 fighters against 304, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

304 FIGHTERS Welterweight MMA

The nearest cohort in size to lightweight MMA — 302 fighters against 304, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

302 FIGHTERS By decade

Whether lightweight MMA looks the way it does because of the weight or because of the decade — the same fighters, cut by when they actually fought.

16 DECADES Longest reach for the frame

The extremes this cohort's median is drawn from, ranked across all 2,650 fighters with a reach on file.

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DATA · JUL 2026 amitsharma.co.nz

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