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Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira

78″ reach · +3.99% reach advantage · 55th percentile

MMA record

34–10

Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira has a reach of 78″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +3.99%, above average for heavyweight MMA and the 55th percentile of the 140 compared here.

199020002010UNFILEDwin v Yuriy Kochkine, 1999, submissionwin v Nate Schroeder, 1999, submissionwin v David Dodd, 1999, submissionwin v Kiyoshi Tamura, 2000, submissiondraw v Tsuyoshi Kohsaka, 2000, drawloss v Dan Henderson, 2000, decisionwin v Jeremy Horn, 2000, decisionwin v Heath Herring, 2001, decisionwin v Mark Coleman, 2001, submissionwin v Gary Goodridge, 2001, submissionwin v Valentijn Overeem, 2001, submissionwin v Dan Henderson, 2002, submissionwin v Semmy Schilt, 2002, submissionwin v Bob Sapp, 2002, submissionwin v Sanae Kikuta, 2002, kowin v Enson Inoue, 2002, submissionwin v Mirko Cro Cop, 2003, submissionwin v Ricco Rodriguez, 2003, decisionloss v Fedor Emelianenko, 2003, decisionloss v Fedor Emelianenko, 2004, decisionwin v Heath Herring, 2004, submissionwin v Hirotaka Yokoi, 2004, submissionwin v Pawel Nastula, 2005, kowin v Josh Barnett, 2006, decisionwin v Fabrício Werdum, 2006, decisionwin v Wagner Martins, 2006, submissionwin v Kiyoshi Tamura, 2006, submissionwin v Heath Herring, 2007, decisionloss v Frank Mir, 2008, kowin v Tim Sylvia, 2008, submissionwin v Randy Couture, 2009, decisionloss v Cain Velasquez, 2010, koloss v Frank Mir, 2011, submissionwin v Brendan Schaub, 2011, kowin v Dave Herman, 2012, submissionloss v Fabrício Werdum, 2013, submissionloss v Roy Nelson, 2014, koloss v Stefan Struve, 2015, decisionwin v Sergei Kharitonov, no date on recordwin v Hiromitsu Kanehara, no date on recordwin v Volk Han, no date on recordwin v Achmed Labasanov, no date on recordwin v Andrei Kopylov, no date on recordwin v Valentijn Overeem, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1999–2015 · 6 UNDATED

SOURCE·Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-17

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-06-17. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2015 L Stefan Struve Decision3
2014 L Roy Nelson KO/TKO1
2013 L Fabrício Werdum Submission2
2012 W Dave Herman Submission2
2011 L Frank Mir Submission1
2011 W Brendan Schaub KO/TKO1
2010 L Cain Velasquez KO/TKO1
2009 W Randy Couture Decision3
2008 L Frank Mir KO/TKO2
2008 W Tim Sylvia Submission3
2007 W Heath Herring Decision3
2006 W Josh Barnett Decision3
2006 W Fabrício Werdum Decision3
2006 W Wagner Martins Submission1
2006 W Kiyoshi Tamura Submission1
2005 W Pawel Nastula KO/TKO1
2004 L Fedor Emelianenko Decision3
2004 W Heath Herring Submission2
2004 W Hirotaka Yokoi Submission2
2003 W Mirko Cro Cop Submission2
2003 W Ricco Rodriguez Decision3
2003 L Fedor Emelianenko Decision3
2002 W Dan Henderson Submission3
2002 W Semmy Schilt Submission1
2002 W Bob Sapp Submission2
2002 W Sanae Kikuta KO/TKO2
2002 W Enson Inoue Submission1
2001 W Heath Herring Decision3
2001 W Mark Coleman Submission1
2001 W Gary Goodridge Submission1
2001 W Valentijn Overeem Submission1
2000 W Kiyoshi Tamura Submission2
2000 D Tsuyoshi Kohsaka Draw2
2000 L Dan Henderson Decision3
2000 W Jeremy Horn Decision3
1999 W Yuriy Kochkine Submission1
1999 W Nate Schroeder Submission1
1999 W David Dodd Submission1
undated W Sergei Kharitonov Decision—
undated W Hiromitsu Kanehara Submission—
undated W Volk Han Decision—
undated W Achmed Labasanov Submission—
undated W Andrei Kopylov Decision—
undated W Valentijn Overeem Submission—

38 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-17

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+3.99%

78″ reach on a 75″ frame

Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.

-4%heavyweight MMA reach advantage9.9%
Measurements
Reach78″ (198.1 cm)54th pct
Height75″ (190.5 cm)48th pct
StanceOrthodox
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
Most active decade2000s — 28 of 38 dated bouts
CountryBrazil

Record

MMA record

34–10

45 bouts on record

Finish rate

71%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 24th percentile

KO/TKO: 3 (9%)Submission: 21 (62%)Decision: 10 (29%)
  • KO/TKO 9%
  • Submission 62%
  • Decision 29%

The career, bout by bout

44 recorded bouts from 1999 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2000 2010 win vs Yuriy Kochkine (1999)win vs Nate Schroeder (1999)win vs David Dodd (1999)win vs Kiyoshi Tamura (2000)draw vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (2000)loss vs Dan Henderson (2000)win vs Jeremy Horn (2000)win vs Heath Herring (2001)win vs Mark Coleman (2001)win vs Gary Goodridge (2001)win vs Valentijn Overeem (2001)win vs Dan Henderson (2002)win vs Semmy Schilt (2002)win vs Bob Sapp (2002)win vs Sanae Kikuta (2002)win vs Enson Inoue (2002)win vs Mirko Cro Cop (2003)win vs Ricco Rodriguez (2003)loss vs Fedor Emelianenko (2003)loss vs Fedor Emelianenko (2004)win vs Heath Herring (2004)win vs Hirotaka Yokoi (2004)win vs Pawel Nastula (2005)win vs Josh Barnett (2006)win vs Fabrício Werdum (2006)win vs Wagner Martins (2006)win vs Kiyoshi Tamura (2006)win vs Heath Herring (2007)loss vs Frank Mir (2008)win vs Tim Sylvia (2008)win vs Randy Couture (2009)loss vs Cain Velasquez (2010)loss vs Frank Mir (2011)win vs Brendan Schaub (2011)win vs Dave Herman (2012)loss vs Fabrício Werdum (2013)loss vs Roy Nelson (2014)loss vs Stefan Struve (2015)
winlossdraw / NC1999–2015

Career span

17y

1999–2015

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2002

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

44

38 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira's record?
34–10 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 44 bouts individually.
How many of Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira's bouts have no date?
6 of 44. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
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.

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