Cub Swanson
70″ reach · +2.95% reach advantage · 60th percentile
31–14
Cub Swanson has a reach of 70″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +2.95%, above average for lightweight MMA and the 60th percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·Cub Swanson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-11
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 2026-07-11. 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W | Nate Landwehr | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2024 | W | Billy Quarantillo | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2024 | L | Andre Fili | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | W | Hakeem Dawodu | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | L | Jonathan Martinez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2021 | W | Darren Elkins | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2021 | L | Giga Chikadze | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2020 | W | Daniel Pineda | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Kron Gracie | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | L | Shane Burgos | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Renato Moicano | Submission | 1 |
| 2018 | L | Frankie Edgar | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Brian Ortega | Submission | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Artem Lobov | Decision | 5 |
| 2016 | W | Choi Doo-ho | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Tatsuya Kawajiri | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Hacran Dias | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Max Holloway | Submission | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Frankie Edgar | Submission | 5 |
| 2014 | W | Jeremy Stephens | Decision | 5 |
| 2013 | W | Dennis Siver | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Dustin Poirier | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Charles Oliveira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Ross Pearson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | George Roop | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Ricardo Lamas | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Mackens Semerzier | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Chad Mendes | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | John Franchi | Submission | 3 |
| 2009 | L | José Aldo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Hiroyuki Takaya | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Donny Walker | Submission | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Jens Pulver | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Micah Miller | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Tommy Lee | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Chuck Kim | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Charlie Valencia | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Richard Montano | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Shannon Gugerty | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Fernando Arreola | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Mike Corey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Armando Sanchez | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Martin Bautista | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Joe Morales | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Shannon Gugerty | Submission | 1 |
30 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Cub Swanson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-11
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.95%
70″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 26th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 21st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 3: bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 20 of 45 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
31–14
45 bouts on record
Finish rate
61%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 36th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
23y
2004–2026
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
45 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Marcus Davis+2.95% 70″ reach · 60th pct
- Francisco Trinaldo+2.95% 70″ reach · 60th pct
- Abel Nazario Trujillo+2.95% 70″ reach · 60th pct
- Gray Maynard+2.95% 70″ reach · 60th pct
- Drew Dober+2.95% 70″ reach · 60th pct
- Kai Kamaka III+3% 69″ reach · 63rd pct
- Diego Brandão+3% 69″ reach · 63rd pct
- Charlie Brenneman+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Cub Swanson's record?
- 31–14 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 45 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.
Where this record leads
The 304 lightweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Swanson sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA20 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsCub Swanson went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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