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2000s MMA

What 2000s MMA fighters actually measure — 541 of them, from Wikipedia's own data.

median reach advantage

+2.79%

Across the 541 2000s MMA fighters in this dataset, the median reach advantage is 2.79% — a median reach of 72″ on a median height of 70.9″. 71% fight orthodox.

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

Cohort profile

The era's shape

Median reach

72″

182.9 cm

Median height

70.9″

180 cm

Median reach advantage

2.79%

of body height

Median finish rate

78%

of wins inside the distance

Fighters

541

192 with a reach on file

-3.2%2000s MMA reach advantage8.6%

Stance

  • orthodox71%
  • southpaw29%

By country

  • United States224
  • Japan98
  • Brazil67
  • Canada25
  • United Kingdom20
  • Russia14
  • France11
  • Kingdom of the Netherlands11
  • Australia7
  • South Korea6

How this era is compiled

  1. Every published fighter this site files under 2000s MMA — 541 of them. Membership is stated by the source, never assigned to fill a cohort.
  2. The decade is MEASURED, not projected: it is the decade holding more of a fighter's dated bouts than any other. A fighter with fewer than three dated bouts has no decade here and appears in no era cohort.
  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

2000s MMA — ranked by reach advantageAUG 2026
#FighterReachHeightAdvantage
1Paul Daley76″69″+10.1%
2Marvin Eastman75″68.9″+8.86%
3Mark Bocek75″69″+8.67%
4Renzo Gracie76″70″+8.55%
5Denis Kang77″71″+8.49%
6Karo Parisyan75.5″70″+7.87%
7Hongman Choi92.5″86.2″+7.31%
8Yoshihiro Akiyama75″70″+7.14%
9Matt Skelton80″75″+6.67%
10Stephan Bonnar80″75″+6.67%
11Ben Rothwell81″76″+6.58%
12Cheick Kongo81″76″+6.58%
13Bob Sapp82″77″+6.49%
14Nam Phan70″66″+6.09%
15Myriam Lamare70″66″+6.09%
16Duda Yankovich70″66″+6.09%
17Gleison Tibau70″66″+6.09%
18Mike Easton70″66″+6.09%
19Mike Brown70″66″+6.09%
20Royce Gracie76.4″72″+6.07%
21Terry Martin71″67″+5.93%
22Rodrigo Damm71″67″+5.93%
23Chris Brennan72″68″+5.91%
24Jamie Varner72″68″+5.91%
25Pat Healy74″70″+5.74%
26Nate Diaz76″72″+5.52%
27Dustin Hazelett77″73″+5.5%
28Igor Araújo77″73″+5.5%
29Mike Swick77″73″+5.5%
30Jérôme Philippe Le Banner79″75″+5.35%
31Frank Mir79″75″+5.35%
32Alistair Overeem80″76″+5.28%
33Kurt Pellegrino71.5″68″+5.15%
34Wesley Correira78.7″75″+4.99%
35Christian Wellisch77.5″74″+4.73%
36Manny Gamburyan68″65″+4.6%
37Jordan Radev70″67″+4.47%
38Caol Uno70″67″+4.47%
39Joe Stevenson70″67″+4.47%
40Renan Barão70″67″+4.47%

Showing 40 of 192.

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

All 541 on the site

Standing questions

What this cohort does and does not say

How many 2000s MMA fighters have a reach on record?
192 of 541. 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 192. It is not extrapolated to the others.
Why do some decades have no page here?
A decade is published only where at least 30 fighters belong to it. Below that a median is a rumour, so no page is emitted and nothing links to one. A fighter's decade is also measured, not estimated — it is the decade holding more of their dated bouts than any other, and a fighter with fewer than three dated bouts belongs to no decade at all.
Cross-references
2000s boxing

The nearest cohort in size to 2000s MMA — 481 fighters against 541, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

481 FIGHTERS 2010s boxing

The nearest cohort in size to 2000s MMA — 730 fighters against 541, so the two medians are worth reading against each other.

730 FIGHTERS 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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