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Beneil Dariush

72″ reach · +2.87% reach advantage · 56th percentile

MMA record

23–8

Beneil Dariush has a reach of 72″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +2.87%, above average for lightweight MMA and the 56th percentile of the 161 compared here.

200020102020win v Jordan Betts, 2009, decisionwin v Vance Bejarano, 2010, submissionwin v Dominic Gutierrez, 2011, submissionwin v Gilberto dos Santos, 2012, kowin v Jason Meaders, 2013, kowin v Trace Gray, 2013, submissionwin v Carlos Diego Ferreira, 2014, decisionwin v Anthony Rocco Martin, 2014, submissionloss v Ramsey Nijem, 2014, kowin v Charlie Brenneman, 2014, submissionwin v Michael Johnson, 2015, decisionwin v Jim Miller, 2015, decisionwin v Daron Cruickshank, 2015, submissionwin v Rashid Magomedov, 2016, decisionwin v James Vick, 2016, koloss v Michael Chiesa, 2016, submissiondraw v Evan Dunham, 2017, drawloss v Edson Barboza, 2017, kowin v Thiago Moisés, 2018, decisionloss v Alexander Hernandez, 2018, kowin v Frank Camacho, 2019, submissionwin v Drew Dober, 2019, submissionwin v Scott Holtzman, 2020, kowin v Drakkar Klose, 2020, kowin v Tony Ferguson, 2021, decisionwin v Carlos Diego Ferreira, 2021, decisionwin v Mateusz Gamrot, 2022, decisionloss v Arman Tsarukyan, 2023, koloss v Charles Oliveira, 2023, koloss v Benoît Saint Denis, 2025, kowin v Renato Moicano, 2025, decisionloss v Quillan Salkilld, 2026, ko
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2009–2026

SOURCE·Beneil Dariush — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28

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 2026-07-28. 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 161 lightweight 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
2026 L Quillan Salkilld KO/TKO1
2025 L Benoît Saint Denis KO/TKO1
2025 W Renato Moicano Decision3
2023 L Arman Tsarukyan KO/TKO1
2023 L Charles Oliveira KO/TKO1
2022 W Mateusz Gamrot Decision3
2021 W Tony Ferguson Decision3
2021 W Carlos Diego Ferreira Decision3
2020 W Scott Holtzman KO/TKO1
2020 W Drakkar Klose KO/TKO2
2019 W Frank Camacho Submission1
2019 W Drew Dober Submission2
2018 W Thiago Moisés Decision3
2018 L Alexander Hernandez KO/TKO1
2017 D Evan Dunham Draw3
2017 L Edson Barboza KO/TKO2
2016 W Rashid Magomedov Decision3
2016 W James Vick KO/TKO1
2016 L Michael Chiesa Submission2
2015 W Michael Johnson Decision3
2015 W Jim Miller Decision3
2015 W Daron Cruickshank Submission2
2014 W Carlos Diego Ferreira Decision3
2014 W Anthony Rocco Martin Submission2
2014 L Ramsey Nijem KO/TKO1
2014 W Charlie Brenneman Submission1
2013 W Jason Meaders KO/TKO2
2013 W Trace Gray Submission1
2012 W Gilberto dos Santos KO/TKO1
2011 W Dominic Gutierrez Submission1
2010 W Vance Bejarano Submission1
2009 W Jordan Betts Decision3

26 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Beneil Dariush — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.87%

72″ reach on a 70″ frame

Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.

-2.9%lightweight MMA reach advantage7.4%
Measurements
Reach72″ (182.9 cm)61st pct
Height70″ (177.8 cm)58th pct
Stance—
DivisionLightweight MMA
Most active decade2010s — 21 of 32 dated bouts
CountryIran

Record

MMA record

23–8

32 bouts on record

Finish rate

57%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 26th percentile

KO/TKO: 5 (22%)Submission: 8 (35%)Decision: 10 (43%)
  • KO/TKO 22%
  • Submission 35%
  • Decision 43%

The career, bout by bout

32 recorded bouts from 2009 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2010 2020 win vs Jordan Betts (2009)win vs Vance Bejarano (2010)win vs Dominic Gutierrez (2011)win vs Gilberto dos Santos (2012)win vs Jason Meaders (2013)win vs Trace Gray (2013)win vs Carlos Diego Ferreira (2014)win vs Anthony Rocco Martin (2014)loss vs Ramsey Nijem (2014)win vs Charlie Brenneman (2014)win vs Michael Johnson (2015)win vs Jim Miller (2015)win vs Daron Cruickshank (2015)win vs Rashid Magomedov (2016)win vs James Vick (2016)loss vs Michael Chiesa (2016)draw vs Evan Dunham (2017)loss vs Edson Barboza (2017)win vs Thiago Moisés (2018)loss vs Alexander Hernandez (2018)win vs Frank Camacho (2019)win vs Drew Dober (2019)win vs Scott Holtzman (2020)win vs Drakkar Klose (2020)win vs Tony Ferguson (2021)win vs Carlos Diego Ferreira (2021)win vs Mateusz Gamrot (2022)loss vs Arman Tsarukyan (2023)loss vs Charles Oliveira (2023)loss vs Benoît Saint Denis (2025)win vs Renato Moicano (2025)loss vs Quillan Salkilld (2026)
winlossdraw / NC2009–2026

Career span

18y

2009–2026

Longest unbeaten run

8

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2014

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

32

32 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Beneil Dariush's record?
23–8 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 32 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.

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