Josh Barnett
78″ reach · +3.99% reach advantage · 55th percentile
34–8
Josh Barnett has a reach of 78″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +3.99%, above average for heavyweight MMA and the 55th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Josh Barnett — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-16
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 2026-05-16. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | W | Marcin Różalski | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Andrei Arlovski | Submission | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Ben Rothwell | Submission | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Roy Nelson | Decision | 5 |
| 2013 | L | Travis Browne | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Frank Mir | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Nandor Guelmino | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Daniel Cormier | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Sergei Kharitonov | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Brett Rogers | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Geronimo dos Santos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Siala-Mou Siliga | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Gilbert Yvel | Submission | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Pedro Rizzo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Jeff Monson | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Hidehiko Yoshida | Submission | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Pawel Nastula | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Mark Hunt | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Alexander Emelianenko | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Kazuhiro Nakamura | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Rene Rooze | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Semmy Schilt | Submission | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Yoshiki Takahashi | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Yuki Kondo | Submission | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Jimmy Ambriz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Randy Couture | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Bobby Hoffman | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Semmy Schilt | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Pedro Rizzo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Gan McGee | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Dan Severn | Submission | 4 |
| 1999 | W | Bobby Hoffman | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | W | John Marsh | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Juha Tuhkasaari | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Trevor Howard | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Bob Gilstrap | DQ | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Chris Munsen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Bob Gilstrap | Decision | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Chris Charnos | Submission | 1 |
26 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Josh Barnett — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-16
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.99%
78″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 78″ (198.1 cm) | 54th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 48th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 23 of 43 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
34–8
42 bouts on record
Finish rate
85%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 50th percentile
The career, bout by bout
43 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2020. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
24y
1997–2020
Longest unbeaten run
12
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
43
43 with a date
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Kevin Rosier+3.99% 79″ reach · 55th pct
- Josh Parisian+3.99% 79″ reach · 55th pct
- Imamu Mayfield+3.99% 78″ reach · 55th pct
- Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira+3.99% 78″ reach · 55th pct
- Ali Isaev Али Исаев+3.99% 78″ reach · 55th pct
- Ante Delija+3.99% 78″ reach · 55th pct
- Jailton Almeida+3.99% 79″ reach · 55th pct
- Ruslan Magomedov Руслан Магомедов+3.99% 78″ reach · 55th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Josh Barnett's record?
- 34–8 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.
Where this record leads
The 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Barnett sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA23 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Daniel Cormier vs Josh BarnettA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2012 Longest unbeaten runsJosh Barnett went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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