Melquizael Costa
71″ reach · +1.41% reach advantage · 39th percentile
26–8
Melquizael Costa has a reach of 71″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +1.41%, short for bantamweight MMA and the 39th percentile of the 101 compared here.
SOURCE·Melquizael Costa — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-23
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 2026-06-23. 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 101 bantamweight 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 | L | Arnold Allen | Decision | 5 |
| 2026 | W | Dan Ige | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2025 | W | Morgan Charrière | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2025 | W | Julian Erosa | Decision | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Christian Rodriguez | Decision | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Andre Fili | Submission | 1 |
| 2024 | W | Shayilan Nuerdanbieke | Submission | 3 |
| 2023 | L | Steve Garcia | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2023 | W | Austin Lingo | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | L | Thiago Moisés | Submission | 2 |
| 2022 | W | Junior Melo | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Tom Santos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | L | Italo Gomes | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Ángel Rodriguez | Submission | 2 |
| 2021 | W | Leandro Santos | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Anderson Ferreira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | José Santana | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Marcelo Costa | Submission | 1 |
| 2018 | L | Marcos Vinicius | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Alexandre Araújo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2018 | L | Rafael Barbosa | Submission | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Antônio Monteiro | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Max Douglas | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Willian Santos Silva | Submission | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Jecônias Dias Sandes | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Elismar Lima | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | João Ferreira Jr. | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Vitor Leandro | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Severino Ramalho da Silva Jr. | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Jonas dos Santos | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Sergio Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Erwin Filho de Andrade Furtado | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Adriel Santos | Submission | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Benjamin Junior Coelho Pantoja | Decision | 3 |
9 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Melquizael Costa — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-23
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.41%
71″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 101 bantamweight MMA fighters. Median 1.51%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 80th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 91st pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Bantamweight MMA competed at 3: featherweight, lightweight, bantamweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 18 of 34 dated bouts |
Record
MMA record
26–8
34 bouts on record
Finish rate
65%
of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight MMA median 68%, 46th percentile
The career, bout by bout
34 recorded bouts from 2014 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
2014–2026
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2017
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
34
34 with a date
Closest in build
bantamweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Johnny Bedford+1.41% 71″ reach · 39th pct
- Charles Johnson+1.43% 70″ reach · 41st pct
- Bekzat Almakhan+1.47% 68″ reach · 42nd pct
- Victor Henry+1.47% 68″ reach · 42nd pct
- Rinya Nakamura+1.47% 68″ reach · 42nd pct
- Erik Pérez+1.47% 68″ reach · 42nd pct
- Shawn Bunch+1.51% 66″ reach · 46th pct
- Davey Grant+1.51% 69″ reach · 46th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Melquizael Costa's record?
- 26–8 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 34 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 186 bantamweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Costa sits inside.
186 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA18 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMelquizael Costa went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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