John Castañeda
71″ reach · +7.58% reach advantage · 95th percentile
21–8
John Castañeda has a reach of 71″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +7.58%, exceptional for bantamweight MMA and the 95th percentile of the 101 compared here.
SOURCE·John Castañeda — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-09
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 2026-06-09. 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 101 bantamweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | D | Mark Vologdin | Draw | 3 |
| 2025 | L | Chris Gutiérrez | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | L | Daniel Marcos | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | W | Kang Kyung-ho | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | W | Muin Gafurov | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | L | Daniel Santos | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2022 | W | Miles Johns | Submission | 3 |
| 2021 | W | Eddie Wineland | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2020 | L | Nathaniel Wood | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Marcelo Rojo | Submission | 3 |
| 2018 | L | José Alday | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Levy Saúl Marroquín | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Cheyden Leialoha | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Chris Beal | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Gustavo Lopez | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2016 | W | Angel Cruz | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Gabriel Solorio | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Federico Lopez | Submission | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Justin Governale | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Joe Pearson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Pedro Velasco | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Matt Brown | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Ruddy Gray | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Derrick Mandell | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Adam Schumacher | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Bruce Johnson | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Brandon Abrego | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | W | Marc Gomez | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Kevin Moreyra | Submission | — |
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·John Castañeda — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-09
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+7.58%
71″ reach on a 66″ frame
Compared against 101 bantamweight MMA fighters. Median 1.51%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 80th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 28th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Bantamweight MMA competed at 3: lightweight, featherweight, bantamweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 18 of 27 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
21–8
30 bouts on record
Finish rate
67%
of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight MMA median 68%, 46th percentile
The career, bout by bout
29 recorded bouts from 2012 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2012–2026
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2015
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
29
27 with a date
Closest in build
bantamweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Kai Kara-France+7.81% 69″ reach · 96th pct
- Bea Malecki+7.24% 74″ reach · 94th pct
- Santiago Luna+8.86% 74″ reach · 97th pct
- Tony Gravely+6.18% 69″ reach · 92nd pct
- Melissa Gatto+6.18% 69″ reach · 92nd pct
- Duda Yankovich+6.09% 70″ reach · 90th pct
- Mike Easton+6.09% 70″ reach · 90th pct
- Su Mudaerji+5.91% 72″ reach · 88th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is John Castañeda's record?
- 21–8 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 29 bouts individually.
- How many of John Castañeda's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 29. 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
The 186 bantamweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Castañeda sits inside.
186 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA18 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJohn Castañeda went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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