Joseph Benavidez
65″ reach · +1.54% reach advantage · 42nd percentile
28–8
Joseph Benavidez has a reach of 65″ against a height of 64″ — a reach advantage of +1.54%, short for featherweight MMA and the 42nd percentile of the 119 compared here.
SOURCE·Joseph Benavidez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-21
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 2026-06-21. 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 119 featherweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | L | Askar Askarov | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Deiveson Figueiredo | Submission | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Jussier Formiga | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Dustin Ortiz | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Alex Perez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | L | Sergio Pettis | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Henry Cejudo | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Zach Makovsky | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Ali Bagautinov | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | John Moraga | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Dustin Ortiz | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Tim Elliott | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Demetrious Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Jussier Formiga | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Darren Uyenoyama | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Ian McCall | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Demetrious Johnson | Decision | 5 |
| 2012 | W | Yasuhiro Urushitani | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Eddie Wineland | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Ian Loveland | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Wagnney Fabiano | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Dominick Cruz | Decision | 5 |
| 2010 | W | Miguel Torres | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Rani Yahya | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Dominick Cruz | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Jeff Curran | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Danny Martinez | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Junya Kodo | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Maurice Eazel | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Jason Georgianna | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Rocky Del Monte | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Carlos Lovio | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Justin Smitley | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Ramon Rodriguez | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Brandon Shelton | Submission | 2 |
25 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Joseph Benavidez — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-21
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.54%
65″ reach on a 64″ frame
Compared against 119 featherweight MMA fighters. Median 2.75%.
| Reach | 65″ (165.1 cm) | 2nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 64″ (162.6 cm) | 2nd pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Featherweight MMA competed at 3: flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 21 of 35 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
28–8
36 bouts on record
Finish rate
61%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight MMA median 65%, 40th percentile
The career, bout by bout
35 recorded bouts from 2006 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
2006–2021
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2008
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
35
35 with a date
Closest in build
featherweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Wilson Reis+1.54% 65″ reach · 42nd pct
- Irwin Rivera+1.55% 67″ reach · 44th pct
- Timur Valiev+1.55% 67″ reach · 44th pct
- Hugo Viana+1.55% 67″ reach · 44th pct
- Shayilan Nuerdanbieke+1.51% 69″ reach · 38th pct
- Timur Khizriev+1.51% 69″ reach · 38th pct
- LC Davis+1.51% 69″ reach · 38th pct
- Ross Pearson+1.51% 69″ reach · 38th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Joseph Benavidez's record?
- 28–8 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 225 featherweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Benavidez sits inside.
225 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA21 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJoseph Benavidez went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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