Justin Gaethje
70″ reach · -1.39% reach advantage · 6th percentile
28–5
Justin Gaethje has a reach of 70″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of -1.39%, unusually short for lightweight MMA and the 6th percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·Justin Gaethje — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
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 2026-07-29. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W | Ilia Topuria | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2026 | W | Paddy Pimblett | Decision | 5 |
| 2025 | W | Rafael Fiziev | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | L | Max Holloway | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2023 | W | Dustin Poirier | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2023 | W | Rafael Fiziev | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | L | Charles Oliveira | Submission | 1 |
| 2021 | W | Michael Chandler | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Khabib Nurmagomedov | Submission | 2 |
| 2020 | W | Tony Ferguson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2019 | W | Donald Cerrone | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Edson Barboza | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | W | James Vick | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | L | Dustin Poirier | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2017 | L | Eddie Alvarez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Michael Johnson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Luiz Firmino | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Brian Foster | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Luis Palomino | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Melvin Guillard | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Nick Newell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Richard Patishnock | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Dan Lauzon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Brian Cobb | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Gesias Cavalcante | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Adrian Valdez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Drew Fickett | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Sam Young | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Marcus Edwards | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Donnie Bell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Joe Kelso | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Kevin Croom | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Aaron Carter | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Scott Cleve | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Steve Hanna | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Kevin Gonzales | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Nick Rhoads | Submission | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Austin Greer | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Ben DeAnda | KO/TKO | 1 |
23 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Justin Gaethje — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-1.39%
70″ reach on a 71″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 26th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 76th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 25 of 39 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
28–5
33 bouts on record
Finish rate
79%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 67th percentile
The career, bout by bout
39 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2008–2026
Longest unbeaten run
23
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2011
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
39
39 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Pedro Carvalho-1.39% 70″ reach · 6th pct
- Ma Dong-hyun-1.39% 70″ reach · 6th pct
- Jason Saggo-1.39% 70″ reach · 6th pct
- Yoshiyuki Yoshida-1.39% 70″ reach · 6th pct
- Norman Parke-1.39% 70″ reach · 6th pct
- Esteban Ribovics-1.41% 69″ reach · 6th pct
- Alexander Yakovlev-1.31% 74″ reach · 10th pct
- Akop Stepanyan Акоп Степанян Հակոբ Ստեփանյան-1.48% 68″ reach · 4th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Justin Gaethje's record?
- 28–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 39 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 Gaethje sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA25 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Eddie Alvarez vs Justin GaethjeA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2017 Longest unbeaten runsJustin Gaethje went 23 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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