Hongman Choi
92.5″ reach · +7.31% reach advantage · 93rd percentile
4–5
Hongman Choi has a reach of 92.5″ against a height of 86.2″ — a reach advantage of +7.31%, exceptional for heavyweight MMA and the 93rd percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Hongman Choi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
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 2026-07-07. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | L | Mighty Mo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Aorigele | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | L | Zhou Zhipeng | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Quanchao Luo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Carlos Toyota | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Ikuhisa Minowa | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Jose Canseco | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Ray Sefo | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Badr Hari | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Fedor Emelianenko | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Jérôme Le Banner | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Mighty Mo | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Gary Goodridge | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Mike Malone | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Bobby Ologun | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Jérôme Le Banner | Decision | 4 |
| 2006 | W | Akebono | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Semmy Schilt | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Sylvester Terkay | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | L | Remy Bonjasky | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Bob Sapp | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Akebono | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Tom Howard | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Kaoklai Kaennorsing | Decision | 4 |
| 2005 | W | Wakashoyo | KO/TKO | 1 |
15 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Hongman Choi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-07
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+7.31%
92.5″ reach on a 86.2″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 92.5″ (235 cm) | 99th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 86.2″ (219 cm) | 100th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 21 of 26 dated bouts | |
| Country | South Korea |
Record
MMA record
4–5
9 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
26 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
2005–2016
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
26
26 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Hongman Choi competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Kickboxing | 13 | 9 | 7 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- James Toney+7.24% 74″ reach · 92nd pct
- Kennedy Nzechukwu+7.77% 83″ reach · 94th pct
- Antônio Silva+7.93% 82″ reach · 94th pct
- Matt Skelton+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Juan Espino+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Ovince Saint Preux+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Soa Palelei+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Ben Rothwell+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Hongman Choi's record?
- 4–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 26 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 Choi sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA21 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Akebono vs Hongman ChoiA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
HEAD TO HEAD Longest unbeaten runsHongman Choi went 6 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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