Jan Nortje
2–6 · 43 recorded bouts · 1998–2013
2–6
Jan Nortje finished 100% of 2 wins inside the distance — the 72nd percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Jan Nortje — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-17
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 2026-05-17. 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 324 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 | Lechi Kurbanov | Decision | 4 |
| 2009 | L | Sokoudjou | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Bob Sapp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Tom Erikson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Peter Aerts | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Bjorn Bregy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Gary Goodridge | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Dong Wook-Kim | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Mighty Mo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Julius Long | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Imani Lee | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Semmy Schilt | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Alexander Ustinov | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Tom Erikson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Mike Bernardo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Masayuki Naruse | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Shinsuke Nakamura | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Martin Holm | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Ivan Rudan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Alexey Ignashov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Evgeny Orlov | Decision | 5 |
| 2002 | W | Tadao Yasuda | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | L | Ernesto Hoost | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Jörgen Kruth | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Gary Goodridge | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Sergei Matkin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Peter Graham | Decision | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Curtis McDorman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | JC Hilliard | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Monthee Honore | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2000 | L | Jérôme Le Banner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Mario Sailor | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Ricky Peters | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Clinton Nortje | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Armstrong M'bete | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Matt Skelton | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1999 | W | Egan Norman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Jacob Lolwane | Decision | 4 |
| 1999 | W | James Thompson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Mitsuya Nagai | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Matt Skelton | KO/TKO | 3 |
21 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Jan Nortje — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-17
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 83.1″ (211 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 35 of 43 dated bouts | |
| Country | South Africa |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Jan Nortje, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
2–6
8 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
43 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
1998–2013
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
43
43 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Jan Nortje competed in 3, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Boxing | 11 | 0 | 10 |
| Kickboxing | 9 | 16 | 8 |
What this record does and does not say
- What is Jan Nortje's record?
- 2–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 43 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.
