Melvin Manhoef
71″ reach · +4.4% reach advantage · 68th percentile
32–17
Melvin Manhoef has a reach of 71″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +4.4%, above average for heavyweight MMA and the 68th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Melvin Manhoef — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03
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 2026-07-03. 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | L | Igor Tanabe | Submission | 1 |
| 2022 | L | Yoel Romero | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Corey Anderson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Yannick Bahati | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Kent Kauppinen | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Rafael Carvalho | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2016 | L | Rafael Carvalho | Decision | 5 |
| 2015 | W | Hisaki Kato | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | N | Alexander Shlemenko | — | 2 |
| 2014 | L | Joe Schilling | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Doug Marshall | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Evangelista Santos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Mamed Khalidov | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Brock Larson | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Denis Kang | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Ryo Kawamura | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Kim Jae-young | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | N | Yoshiyuki Nakanishi | — | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Tim Kennedy | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Tatsuya Mizuno | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Robbie Lawler | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Kazuo Misaki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Paulo Filho | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Mark Hunt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Gegard Mousasi | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Kim Dae-won | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Yosuke Nishijima | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Fábio Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Bernard Ackah | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Yoon Dong-sik | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Yoshiki Takahashi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Yoshihiro Akiyama | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Crosley Gracie | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ian Freeman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Shungo Oyama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Evangelista Santos | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Fabio Piamonte | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Paul Cahoon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Bob Schrijber | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Ladislav Zak | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Matthias Riccio | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Rodney Glunder | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Slavomir Molnar | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Alexandr Garkushenko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Bob Schrijber | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Mika Ilmén | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Paul Cahoon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Husein Cift | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Rodney Glunder | Draw | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Jordy Jonkers | KO/TKO | 2 |
| undated | W | Shungo Oyama | KO/TKO | — |
31 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Melvin Manhoef — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.4%
71″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 3rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 1st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 5: welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 28 of 51 dated bouts | |
| Country | Suriname |
Record
MMA record
32–17
50 bouts on record
Finish rate
91%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 61st percentile
The career, bout by bout
52 recorded bouts from 1995 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
28y
1995–2022
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
52
51 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Melvin Manhoef competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 32 | 17 | 29 |
| Kickboxing | 38 | 15 | 27 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Pat Barry+4.27% 74″ reach · 67th pct
- Shawn Jordan+4.16% 75″ reach · 66th pct
- Shamil Gaziev+4.67% 78.5″ reach · 69th pct
- Da Woon Jung+4.67% 78.5″ reach · 69th pct
- Rodney Glunder+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
- Arjan Bhullar+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
- Trevor Prangley+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
- Maurício Rua+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Melvin Manhoef's record?
- 32–17 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 52 bouts individually.
- How many of Melvin Manhoef's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 52. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- 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 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Manhoef sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA28 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMelvin Manhoef went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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