Alexander Gustafsson
79″ reach · +2.61% reach advantage · 32nd percentile
18–8
Alexander Gustafsson has a reach of 79″ against a height of 77″ — a reach advantage of +2.61%, short for heavyweight MMA and the 32nd percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Alexander Gustafsson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-15
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 2026-07-15. 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 140 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | L | Nikita Krylov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2020 | L | Fabrício Werdum | Submission | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Anthony Smith | Submission | 4 |
| 2019 | W | Anton Turkalj | Decision | — |
| 2018 | L | Jon Jones | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Glover Teixeira | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2016 | W | Jan Błachowicz | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Daniel Cormier | Decision | 5 |
| 2015 | L | Anthony Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Jimi Manuwa | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Jon Jones | Decision | 5 |
| 2012 | W | Maurício Rua | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Thiago Silva | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Vladimir Matyushenko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Matt Hamill | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | James Te Huna | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Cyrille Diabaté | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Phil Davis | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Jared Hamman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Vladimir Shemarov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Christopher Lee-Klockare | Submission | — |
| 2008 | W | Pedro Quetglas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Krzysztof Kułak | Decision | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Matteo Minonzio | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Florian Muller | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Farbod Fadami | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Mikael Persson | Submission | — |
| 2007 | W | Mikael Haydari | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Saku Heikkola | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Michael Forsman | Decision | — |
18 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Alexander Gustafsson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-15
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.61%
79″ reach on a 77″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 79″ (200.7 cm) | 67th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 83rd pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 16 of 30 dated bouts | |
| Country | Sweden |
Record
MMA record
18–8
26 bouts on record
Finish rate
78%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 34th percentile
The career, bout by bout
30 recorded bouts from 2006 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
2006–2022
Longest unbeaten run
13
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2008
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
30
30 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Dillian Whyte+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Marek Bujło+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Chase Sherman+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Waldo Cortes-Acosta+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Aleksandar Rakić+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Tommy Morrison+2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Gian Villante+2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Gabriel Gonzaga+2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Alexander Gustafsson's record?
- 18–8 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.
Where this record leads
The 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Gustafsson sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA16 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Alexander Gustafsson vs Jon JonesA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2013 Longest unbeaten runsAlexander Gustafsson went 13 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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