Jamie Varner
72″ reach · +5.91% reach advantage · 89th percentile
21–11
Jamie Varner has a reach of 72″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +5.91%, long for welterweight MMA and the 89th percentile of the 174 compared here.
SOURCE·Jamie Varner — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-09
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 2026-04-09. 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 174 welterweight 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 | Drew Dober | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | L | James Krause | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Abel Trujillo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Gleison Tibau | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Melvin Guillard | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Joe Lauzon | Submission | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Edson Barboza | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Drew Fickett | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Nate Jolly | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Dakota Cochrane | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Tyler Combs | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Shane Roller | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Donald Cerrone | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | D | Kamal Shalorus | Draw | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Benson Henderson | Submission | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Donald Cerrone | Decision | 5 |
| 2008 | W | Marcus Hicks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Rob McCullough | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Sherron Leggett | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Jason Gilliam | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Hermes França | Submission | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Leonard Wilson | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | N | Tony Llamas | — | — |
| 2005 | W | Paul Arroyo | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Adam Roland | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Jesse Bongfeldt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Kyle Bradley | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Kyle Sprouse | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Garett Davis | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | N | James Upshur | — | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Jarvis Brennaman | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Dave Klein | Submission | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Justin Nauling | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Jesse Moreng | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Carlos Ortega | Decision | 3 |
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jamie Varner — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-09
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.91%
72″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 174 welterweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 29th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 5th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA competed at 2: lightweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 20 of 35 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
21–11
33 bouts on record
Finish rate
86%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 80th percentile
The career, bout by bout
35 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
2003–2014
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2003
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
35
35 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Albert Tumenov+5.76% 73″ reach · 88th pct
- Goiti Yamauchi+5.74% 74″ reach · 85th pct
- Mason Jones+5.74% 74″ reach · 85th pct
- Kenny Robertson+5.74% 74″ reach · 85th pct
- Myktybek Orolbai+5.74% 74″ reach · 85th pct
- Charles Oliveira+5.74% 74″ reach · 85th pct
- Ania Fucz+6.09% 70″ reach · 89th pct
- Geoff Neal+5.66% 75″ reach · 84th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jamie Varner's record?
- 21–11 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 35 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 302 welterweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Varner sits inside.
302 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA20 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJamie Varner went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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