What is Cody Donovan's record?

8–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 13 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.

Cody Donovan — record, reach and career in context

MMA record

8–5

Cody Donovan has a reach of 74″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of -1.31%, unusually short for light heavyweight MMA and the 5th percentile of the 88 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2008–2014

SOURCE·Cody Donovan — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-06

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 2026-01-06. 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.
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 88 light 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
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
2014	L	Nikita Krylov	KO/TKO	1
2013	L	Gian Villante	KO/TKO	2
2013	L	Ovince Saint Preux	KO/TKO	1
2012	W	Nick Penner	KO/TKO	1
2012	W	Peter Nolan	Submission	1
2011	W	Brian Albin	Decision	3
2011	W	Xavier Saccomanno	Submission	2
2010	L	Cortez Coleman	KO/TKO	1
2010	W	Isaac Villanueva	Submission	2
2009	L	Eric Smith	KO/TKO	1
2009	W	Joe Stripling	KO/TKO	2
2009	W	John Doyle	KO/TKO	1
2008	W	Wade Drake	KO/TKO	1

3 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Cody Donovan — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-06

Reach in context

Reach advantage

-1.31%

74″ reach on a 75″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.

-1.4%light heavyweight MMA reach advantage6.1%

Measurements
Reach	74″ (188 cm)	22nd pct
Height	75″ (190.5 cm)	71st pct
Stance	—
Division	Light Heavyweight MMA
Most active decade	2010s — 9 of 13 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

MMA record

8–5

13 bouts on record

Finish rate

88%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 67th percentile

KO/TKO 50%
Submission 38%
Decision 13%

The career, bout by bout

13 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC2008–2014

Career span

7y

2008–2014

Longest unbeaten run

5

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2009

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

13

13 with a date

Closest in build

light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Cody Donovan's record?: 8–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 13 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.

Cross-references

Light heavyweight MMA

The 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Donovan sits inside.

185 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA

9 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Cody Donovan went 5 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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