Francois Botha
74″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 11th percentile
0–1
Francois Botha has a reach of 74″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for all MMA and the 11th percentile of the 1,056 compared here.
SOURCE·Francois Botha — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-19
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 2026-06-19. 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 1,056 all 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | L | Andrzej Wawrzyk | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2013 | L | Joseph Parker | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Sonny Bill Williams | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | L | Francesco Pianeta | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | L | Carlos Takam | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2011 | L | Michael Grant | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2011 | W | Flo Simba | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2010 | L | Evander Holyfield | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2009 | D | Pedro Carrión | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Timo Hoffmann | Decision | 12 |
| 2009 | W | Ron Guerrero | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Bob Mirovic | Decision | 12 |
| 2004 | L | Yoshihiro Akiyama | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | ? | Submission | — | — |
| 2002 | D | Clifford Etienne | Decision | 10 |
| 2002 | L | Wladimir Klitschko | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2001 | W | Russell Chasteen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | David Bostice | Decision | 10 |
| 2001 | W | Joey Guy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Tony LaRosa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Lennox Lewis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Steve Pannell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Shannon Briggs | Draw | 10 |
| 1999 | L | Mike Tyson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1998 | W | David Cherry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Stan Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Lee Gilbert | Decision | 12 |
| 1997 | W | James Stanton | KO/TKO | 10 |
| 1996 | L | Michael Moorer | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 1995 | ? | Axel Schulz | Decision | 12 |
| 1995 | W | Willie Jake | Decision | 8 |
| 1995 | W | Brian Sargent | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Bill Corrigan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Ken Lakusta | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Phil Scott | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 1994 | W | Martin Foster | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Craig Payne | — | 7 |
| 1993 | W | John Morton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1993 | W | Ron Goodwin | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1993 | W | Calvin Jones | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1993 | W | Billy Wright | — | 5 |
| 1992 | W | Artie Hooks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Mike Jones | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Russell Rierson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Jimmy Bills | Decision | 8 |
| 1992 | W | Mike Hunter | — | 8 |
| 1992 | W | David Martin | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1992 | W | Ken Jackson | Decision | 8 |
| 1992 | W | Ron Ackerson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1992 | W | Marion Wilson | Decision | 8 |
| 1991 | W | Tim Tomashek | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Ginger Tshabalala | Decision | 6 |
| 1991 | W | Siza Makathini | — | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Shaun Ayers | Decision | 10 |
| 1991 | W | Rick Rice | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1991 | W | Gideon Hlongwa | Decision | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Leander Collins | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Andre Smiley | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | W | Kevin Denson | Decision | 6 |
| 1990 | W | Elvis Franks | Decision | 4 |
Showing 60 of 65 recorded bouts, most recent first.
21 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Francois Botha — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-19
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
74″ reach on a 74″ frame
Compared against 1,056 all MMA fighters — no weight class is on record for Francois Botha, so the comparison is by discipline. Median 2.75%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 61st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | 80th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Cruiserweight MMA competed at 2: heavyweight, cruiserweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 41 of 63 dated bouts | |
| Country | South Africa |
Record
MMA record
0–1
1 bouts on record
The career, bout by bout
65 recorded bouts from 1990 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
25y
1990–2014
Longest unbeaten run
33
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1992
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
65
63 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Francois Botha competed in 3, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | — | 1 | — |
| Boxing | 48 | 11 | 29 |
| Kickboxing | 4 | 13 | 3 |
What this record does and does not say
- What is Francois Botha's record?
- 0–1 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 65 bouts individually.
- How many of Francois Botha's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 65. 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
41 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Francois Botha vs Shannon BriggsA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1999 Longest unbeaten runsFrancois Botha went 33 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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