Mats Nilsson
74.5″ reach · +2.05% reach advantage · 40th percentile
11–4
Mats Nilsson has a reach of 74.5″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +2.05%, short for welterweight MMA and the 40th percentile of the 174 compared here.
SOURCE·Mats Nilsson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-02-18
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 2026-02-18. 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 174 welterweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | L | Omari Akhmedov | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Luke Barnatt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Denniston Sutherland | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Chris Scott | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Tor Troéng | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Alavutdin Gadjiev | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Tom Speer | Submission | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Nikos Sokolis | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Gregor Herb | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Ivan Gluhak | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Timo Suhonen | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Mikko Koivumaki | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | D | Toni Linden | Draw | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Nick Osei | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Magnus Cedenblad | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Martin Lavin | Decision | 3 |
4 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Mats Nilsson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-02-18
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.05%
74.5″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 174 welterweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 74.5″ (189.2 cm) | 69th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 79th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA competed at 2: middleweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 12 of 16 dated bouts | |
| Country | Sweden |
Record
MMA record
11–4
16 bouts on record
Finish rate
64%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 33rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
16 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
8y
2008–2015
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2009
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
16
16 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Mats Nilsson competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 11 | 4 | 2 |
| Kickboxing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Closest in build
welterweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Mike Rhodes+2.05% 74.5″ reach · 40th pct
- Sam Alvey+2.02% 75.5″ reach · 40th pct
- Héctor Urbina+2.08% 73.5″ reach · 41st pct
- Shannon Wiratchai+1.6% 70″ reach · 39th pct
- Sean Sherk+1.55% 67″ reach · 39th pct
- War Machine+1.5% 72″ reach · 38th pct
- Joey Villaseñor+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Hector Aldana+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Mats Nilsson's record?
- 11–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 16 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.
