What is Justin Willis's record?

8–2 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 11 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.

Justin Willis — record, reach and career in context

MMA record

8–2

Justin Willis has a reach of 79″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +8.25%, exceptional for heavyweight MMA and the 95th percentile of the 140 compared here.

WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2012–2021

SOURCE·Justin Willis — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-15

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 2026-05-15. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — 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

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
Year	Result	Opponent	Method	Rd
2021	W	Denis Goltsov	—	—
2019	L	Curtis Blaydes	Decision	3
2018	W	Mark Hunt	Decision	3
2018	W	Chase Sherman	Decision	3
2017	W	Allen Crowder	KO/TKO	1
2017	W	James Mulheron	Decision	3
2016	W	Julian Coutinho	KO/TKO	2
2015	W	Rizvan Kuniev	Decision	2
2014	W	Yusuke Kawaguchi	KO/TKO	1
2014	W	James Kirby	KO/TKO	1
2012	L	Henry Solis	KO/TKO	2

6 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Justin Willis — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-15

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+8.25%

79″ reach on a 73″ frame

lowestmedianhighest

Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.

-4%heavyweight MMA reach advantage9.9%

Measurements
Reach	79″ (200.7 cm)	67th pct
Height	73″ (185.4 cm)	21st pct
Stance	Southpaw
Division	Heavyweight MMA
Most active decade	2010s — 10 of 11 dated bouts
Country	United States

Record

MMA record

8–2

10 bouts on record

Finish rate

50%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 5th percentile

KO/TKO 50%
Decision 50%

The career, bout by bout

11 recorded bouts from 2012 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

winlossdraw / NC2012–2021

Career span

10y

2012–2021

Longest unbeaten run

8

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2014

2 bouts

Recorded bouts

11

11 with a date

Closest in build

heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Justin Willis's record?: 8–2 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 11 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.

Cross-references

Heavyweight MMA

The 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Willis sits inside.

335 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA

10 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.

1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runs

Justin Willis went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.

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