Butterbean
78″ reach · +9.87% reach advantage · 98th percentile
15–10
Butterbean has a reach of 78″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of +9.87%, exceptional for heavyweight MMA and the 98th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Eric Esch — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
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 2026-08-03. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Kirk Lawton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | L | Curt Allan | Decision | 4 |
| 2011 | L | Sandy Bowman | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Eric Barrak | Submission | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Dean Storey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Deon West | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Mariusz Pudzianowski | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Jeff Kugel | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Chris Cruit | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Tom Howard | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Jefferson Hook | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Harry Funmaker | Decision | 4 |
| 2008 | L | Pat Smith | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Nick Penner | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Tengiz Tedoradze | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Zuluzinho | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | James Thompson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Charles Hodges | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Joe Siciliano | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Rob Broughton | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Sean O'Haire | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Ikuhisa Minowa | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Rich Weeks | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Matt Eckerle | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Aaron Aguilera | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Leo Sylvest | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Wesley Correira | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Joaquin Garcia | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ed White | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Daniel White | Decision | 4 |
| 2005 | W | Walley Keenboom | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | D | Michael Buchkovich | Draw | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Baden Oui | Decision | 4 |
| 2005 | L | George Linberger | Decision | 4 |
| 2005 | L | Kenny Craven | Decision | 4 |
| 2005 | W | Rick Zufall | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Brian McIntyre | Decision | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Richie Goosehead | Decision | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Salvador Farnetti | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Marcelo Aravena | Decision | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Rodney Phillips | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Genki Sudo | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Troy Roberts | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | D | Lewis Gilbert | Decision | 4 |
| 2002 | L | Larry Holmes | Decision | 10 |
| 2002 | W | Craig Wolfley | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Kevin Tallon | Decision | 4 |
| 2001 | L | Billy Zumbrun | Decision | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Shane Woollas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Tyrone Muex | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | D | Abdul Muhaymin | Decision | 4 |
| 2000 | W | Harry Funmaker | Decision | 4 |
| 2000 | W | Marcus Rhode | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Dan Kosmicki | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Kerry Biles | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Bill Johnson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | George Linberger | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Kevin Tallon | Decision | 4 |
| 1999 | W | Tim Ray | Decision | 4 |
| 1999 | W | Allen Smith | KO/TKO | 2 |
Showing 60 of 113 recorded bouts, most recent first.
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Eric Esch — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+9.87%
78″ reach on a 71″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 78″ (198.1 cm) | 54th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 6th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 55 of 113 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
15–10
26 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
113 recorded bouts from 1994 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
20y
1994–2013
Longest unbeaten run
58
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1995
14 bouts
Recorded bouts
113
113 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Butterbean competed in 3, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| Boxing | 77 | 10 | 58 |
| Kickboxing | 3 | 4 | 2 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Mike Rodríguez+10.03% 82.5″ reach · 99th pct
- Francis Ngannou+9.22% 83″ reach · 97th pct
- Izu Ugonoh+8.67% 83.9″ reach · 96th pct
- Chris Barnett+8.67% 75″ reach · 96th pct
- Justin Willis+8.25% 79″ reach · 95th pct
- Antônio Silva+7.93% 82″ reach · 94th pct
- Kennedy Nzechukwu+7.77% 83″ reach · 94th pct
- Sergei Pavlovich+12.02% 84″ reach · 99th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Butterbean's record?
- 15–10 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 113 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 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Butterbean sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 1990s MMA55 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Butterbean vs Mariusz PudzianowskiA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2010 Longest unbeaten runsButterbean went 58 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
LEADERBOARD