Chael Sonnen
73″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 6th percentile
31–17
Chael Sonnen has a reach of 73″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight MMA and the 6th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Chael Sonnen — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28
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 2026-07-28. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L | Craig Jones | Submission | — |
| 2019 | L | Lyoto Machida | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2018 | L | Fedor Emelianenko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Quinton Jackson | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Wanderlei Silva | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Tito Ortiz | Submission | 1 |
| 2017 | L | Craig Jones | Submission | — |
| 2016 | D | Michael Bisping | Draw | — |
| 2015 | D | Renato Sobral | Draw | — |
| 2014 | L | André Galvão | Submission | — |
| 2013 | L | Rashad Evans | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Maurício Rua | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Jon Jones | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Anderson Silva | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Michael Bisping | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Brian Stann | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Anderson Silva | Submission | 5 |
| 2010 | W | Nate Marquardt | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Yushin Okami | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Dan Miller | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Demian Maia | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Paulo Filho | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Bryan Baker | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Paulo Filho | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Kyacey Uscola | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Amar Suloev | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Tim McKenzie | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Aleksei Oleinik | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Tim Credeur | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Jeremy Horn | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Trevor Prangley | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | L | Renato Sobral | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Tim Williams | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Adam Ryan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Terry Martin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Alex Stiebling | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Jeremy Horn | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Keiichiro Yamamiya | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Justin Bailey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Arman Gambaryan | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Homer Moore | Decision | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Greg Curnut | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Jason Lambert | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Forrest Griffin | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Renato Sobral | Decision | — |
| 2003 | D | Akihiro Gono | Draw | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Trevor Prangley | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Alexandre Ferreira | — | — |
| 2002 | W | Justin Hawes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Jesse Ault | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Scott Shipman | Submission | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Jason Miller | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Alexandre Ferreira | Submission | — |
| 1997 | W | Ben Hailey | Decision | 1 |
| undated | W | Jesse Ault | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Léo Vieira | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Beau Clark | — | — |
| undated | W | Stephan Potvin | — | — |
| undated | ? | ko-losses= | Draw | — |
| undated | ? | Record | — | — |
36 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Chael Sonnen — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
73″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 8th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 21st pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 35 of 54 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
31–17
49 bouts on record
Finish rate
39%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 2nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
60 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
29y
1997–2025
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2003
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
60
54 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is Chael Sonnen's record?
- 31–17 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 60 bouts individually.
- How many of Chael Sonnen's bouts have no date?
- 6 of 60. 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.
Where this record leads
The 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sonnen sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA35 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Chael Sonnen vs Rampage JacksonA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
HEAD TO HEAD Longest unbeaten runsChael Sonnen went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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