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Brian Ortega

69″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 12th percentile

MMA record

16–5

Brian Ortega has a reach of 69″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for lightweight MMA and the 12th percentile of the 161 compared here.

20102020win v Vincent Martinez, 2010, submissionwin v Brady Harrison, 2010, decisionwin v John Sassone, 2010, submissionwin v Carlos Garces, 2011, decisionwin v Chris Mercado, 2011, decisionwin v Jordan Rinaldi, 2013, submissionwin v Thomas Guimond, 2013, submissionnc v Mike De La Torre, 2014win v Keoni Koch, 2014, decisionwin v Thiago Tavares, 2015, kowin v Clay Guida, 2016, kowin v Diego Brandão, 2016, submissionwin v Cub Swanson, 2017, submissionwin v Renato Moicano, 2017, submissionloss v Max Holloway, 2018, kowin v Frankie Edgar, 2018, kowin v Jung Chan-sung, 2020, decisionloss v Alexander Volkanovski, 2021, decisionloss v Yair Rodríguez, 2022, koloss v Diego Lopes, 2024, decisionwin v Yair Rodríguez, 2024, submissionloss v Aljamain Sterling, 2025, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2010–2025

SOURCE·Brian Ortega — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-23

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 2026-06-23. 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
2025 L Aljamain Sterling Decision5
2024 L Diego Lopes Decision3
2024 W Yair Rodríguez Submission3
2022 L Yair Rodríguez KO/TKO1
2021 L Alexander Volkanovski Decision5
2020 W Jung Chan-sung Decision5
2018 L Max Holloway KO/TKO4
2018 W Frankie Edgar KO/TKO1
2017 W Cub Swanson Submission2
2017 W Renato Moicano Submission3
2016 W Clay Guida KO/TKO3
2016 W Diego Brandão Submission3
2015 W Thiago Tavares KO/TKO3
2014 N Mike De La Torre —1
2014 W Keoni Koch Decision5
2013 W Jordan Rinaldi Submission3
2013 W Thomas Guimond Submission1
2011 W Carlos Garces Decision5
2011 W Chris Mercado Decision3
2010 W Vincent Martinez Submission1
2010 W Brady Harrison Decision3
2010 W John Sassone Submission1

15 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Brian Ortega — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-23

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

69″ reach on a 69″ frame

Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.

-2.9%lightweight MMA reach advantage7.4%
Measurements
Reach69″ (175.3 cm)16th pct
Height69″ (175.3 cm)39th pct
Stance—
DivisionLightweight MMA
competed at 2: featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2010s — 16 of 22 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

16–5

21 bouts on record

Finish rate

69%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 48th percentile

KO/TKO: 3 (19%)Submission: 8 (50%)Decision: 5 (31%)
  • KO/TKO 19%
  • Submission 50%
  • Decision 31%

The career, bout by bout

22 recorded bouts from 2010 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2010 2020 win vs Vincent Martinez (2010)win vs Brady Harrison (2010)win vs John Sassone (2010)win vs Carlos Garces (2011)win vs Chris Mercado (2011)win vs Jordan Rinaldi (2013)win vs Thomas Guimond (2013)nc vs Mike De La Torre (2014)win vs Keoni Koch (2014)win vs Thiago Tavares (2015)win vs Clay Guida (2016)win vs Diego Brandão (2016)win vs Cub Swanson (2017)win vs Renato Moicano (2017)loss vs Max Holloway (2018)win vs Frankie Edgar (2018)win vs Jung Chan-sung (2020)loss vs Alexander Volkanovski (2021)loss vs Yair Rodríguez (2022)loss vs Diego Lopes (2024)win vs Yair Rodríguez (2024)loss vs Aljamain Sterling (2025)
winlossdraw / NC2010–2025

Career span

16y

2010–2025

Longest unbeaten run

13

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2010

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

22

22 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Brian Ortega's record?
16–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 22 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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