Aljamain Sterling
71″ reach · +5.93% reach advantage · 90th percentile
25–5
Aljamain Sterling has a reach of 71″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +5.93%, exceptional for featherweight MMA and the 90th percentile of the 119 compared here.
SOURCE·Aljamain Sterling — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03
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 2026-07-03. 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 119 featherweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W | Youssef Zalal | Decision | 5 |
| 2025 | W | Brian Ortega | Decision | 5 |
| 2024 | L | Movsar Evloev | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Calvin Kattar | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Jay Jay Wilson | Decision | — |
| 2024 | W | Chase Hooper | Decision | — |
| 2023 | L | Sean O'Malley | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2023 | W | Henry Cejudo | Decision | 5 |
| 2023 | L | Kevin Dantzler | Decision | — |
| 2023 | W | Mike Grundy | Decision | — |
| 2022 | W | T.J. Dillashaw | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2022 | W | Petr Yan | Decision | 5 |
| 2021 | W | Petr Yan | DQ | 4 |
| 2020 | W | Cory Sandhagen | Submission | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Pedro Munhoz | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Jimmie Rivera | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Cody Stamann | Submission | 2 |
| 2018 | W | Brett Johns | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Marlon Moraes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Renan Barão | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Augusto Mendes | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Raphael Assunção | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Bryan Caraway | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Johnny Eduardo | Submission | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Takeya Mizugaki | Submission | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Hugo Viana | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Cody Gibson | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Joel Roberts | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Sidemar Honorio | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Casey Johnson | Submission | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Sean Santella | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Evan Chmielski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Claudio Ledesma | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Harley Leimbach | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Sergio da Silva | Decision | 3 |
25 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Aljamain Sterling — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.93%
71″ reach on a 67″ frame
Compared against 119 featherweight MMA fighters. Median 2.75%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 54th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 25th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight MMA competed at 2: bantamweight, featherweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 21 of 35 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
25–5
30 bouts on record
Finish rate
44%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight MMA median 65%, 13th percentile
The career, bout by bout
35 recorded bouts from 2011 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
2011–2026
Longest unbeaten run
12
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2011
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
35
35 with a date
Closest in build
featherweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Leah Letson+5.93% 71″ reach · 90th pct
- Rodrigo Damm+5.93% 71″ reach · 90th pct
- Shane Young+5.91% 72″ reach · 89th pct
- Myriam Lamare+6.09% 70″ reach · 92nd pct
- Movlid Khaybulaev+6.09% 70″ reach · 92nd pct
- Jamall Emmers+5.74% 74″ reach · 87th pct
- Andre Fili+5.74% 74″ reach · 87th pct
- Clay Collard+5.66% 75″ reach · 87th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Aljamain Sterling's record?
- 25–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 35 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 225 featherweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sterling sits inside.
225 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA21 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Aljamain Sterling vs Bryan CarawayA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2016 Longest unbeaten runsAljamain Sterling went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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