Josh Burkman
72″ reach · +2.87% reach advantage · 56th percentile
28–18
Josh Burkman has a reach of 72″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +2.87%, above average for lightweight MMA and the 56th percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·Josh Burkman — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-27
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 2026-01-27. 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 161 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | L | William Macário | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Alex Morono | Submission | 1 |
| 2017 | L | Drew Dober | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | L | Michel Prazeres | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | L | Zak Ottow | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Paul Felder | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | K. J. Noons | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Patrick Côté | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Dong Hyun Kim | Submission | 3 |
| 2015 | N | Héctor Lombard | — | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Tyler Stinson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Steve Carl | Submission | 4 |
| 2013 | W | Jon Fitch | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Aaron Simpson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Gerald Harris | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Jamie Yager | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Koffi Adzitso | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Jordan Mein | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Jordan Smith | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Jake Paul | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Brandon Melendez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Pete Sell | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Dustin Hazelett | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Mike Swick | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Forrest Petz | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Karo Parisyan | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Chad Reiner | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Josh Neer | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Jon Fitch | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Drew Fickett | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Sammy Morgan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Jeremy Horn | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Brian Wieber | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Kyacey Uscola | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Drew Ellisor | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Isidro Gonzalez | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Matt Horwich | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Jeremy Brown | Decision | — |
| 2003 | W | Derek Downey | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Brian Garlick | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Matthew Bell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Gedeon Jarvis | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Hank Weiss | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Matt King | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Cedric Nicholsen | Submission | 1 |
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Josh Burkman — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-27
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.87%
72″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 61st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 58th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, welterweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 25 of 45 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
28–18
46 bouts on record
Finish rate
61%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 34th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2019. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
2003–2019
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2003
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
45 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Charlie Brenneman+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Joe Proctor+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Vinc Pichel+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Youssef Zalal+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Beneil Dariush+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Jordan Leavitt+2.85% 71″ reach · 53rd pct
- Rong Zhu+2.85% 71″ reach · 53rd pct
- Tae Hyun Bang+2.85% 71″ reach · 53rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Josh Burkman's record?
- 28–18 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 45 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 304 lightweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Burkman sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA25 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJosh Burkman went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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