Diego Sanchez
72″ reach · +2.87% reach advantage · 55th percentile
29–14
Diego Sanchez has a reach of 72″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +2.87%, above average for middleweight MMA and the 55th percentile of the 139 compared here.
SOURCE·Diego Sanchez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-17
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 2026-06-17. 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 139 middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | L | Austin Trout | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2022 | L | Kevin Lee | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Jake Matthews | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Michel Pereira | DQ | 3 |
| 2019 | L | Michael Chiesa | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Mickey Gall | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2018 | W | Craig White | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Matt Brown | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | L | Al Iaquinta | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Marcin Held | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Joe Lauzon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Jim Miller | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Ricardo Lamas | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Ross Pearson | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Myles Jury | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | L | Gilbert Melendez | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Takanori Gomi | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Jake Ellenberger | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Martin Kampmann | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Paulo Thiago | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | John Hathaway | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | B.J. Penn | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2009 | W | Clay Guida | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Joe Stevenson | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Luigi Fioravanti | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | David Bielkheden | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Jon Fitch | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Josh Koscheck | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Joe Riggs | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Karo Parisyan | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | John Alessio | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Nick Diaz | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Brian Gassaway | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Kenny Florian | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Josh Koscheck | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Jorge Santiago | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Ray Elbe | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Travis Beachler | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Cruz Chacon | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | John Cronk | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Rene Kronvold | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Mike Guymon | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Jake Short | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Shannon Ritch | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Jesus Sanchez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Michael Johnson | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Josh Rafferty | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Alex Karalexis | Submission | 1 |
36 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Diego Sanchez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-17
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.87%
72″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 139 middleweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 15th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 15th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 5: featherweight, lightweight, super lightweight, welterweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 25 of 46 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
29–14
43 bouts on record
Finish rate
55%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 17th percentile
The career, bout by bout
48 recorded bouts from 2002 to 2023. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
2002–2023
Longest unbeaten run
18
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2003
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
48
46 with a date
Closest in build
middleweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Jason Lambert+2.87% 72″ reach · 55th pct
- Anthony Lapsley+2.85% 71″ reach · 54th pct
- Mike Richman+2.85% 71″ reach · 54th pct
- Benoît Saint Denis+2.83% 73″ reach · 53rd pct
- Jack Della Maddalena+2.83% 73″ reach · 53rd pct
- Nick Ring+2.79% 74″ reach · 47th pct
- Vítor Belfort+2.79% 74″ reach · 47th pct
- Bruno Silva+2.79% 74″ reach · 47th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Diego Sanchez's record?
- 29–14 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 48 bouts individually.
- How many of Diego Sanchez's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 48. 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 244 middleweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sanchez sits inside.
244 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA25 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Diego Sanchez vs Paulo ThiagoA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2010 Longest unbeaten runsDiego Sanchez went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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