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Mike Swick

77″ reach · +5.5% reach advantage · 91st percentile

MMA record

15–6

Mike Swick has a reach of 77″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +5.5%, exceptional for light heavyweight MMA and the 91st percentile of the 88 compared here.

199020002010win v Victor Bell, 1998, submissionwin v James Gabert, 2002, decisionwin v James Whitifield, 2002, kowin v Butch Bacon, 2003, kowin v Kengo Ura, 2003, koloss v Chris Leben, 2004, kowin v Gideon Ray, 2005, kowin v Alex Schoenauer, 2005, koloss v Stephan Bonnar, 2005, submissionwin v David Loiseau, 2006, decisionwin v Joe Riggs, 2006, submissionwin v Steve Vigneault, 2006, submissionloss v Yushin Okami, 2007, decisionwin v Jonathan Goulet, 2008, kowin v Marcus Davis, 2008, decisionwin v Josh Burkman, 2008, decisionloss v Dan Hardy, 2009, decisionwin v Ben Saunders, 2009, koloss v Paulo Thiago, 2010, submissionloss v Matt Brown, 2012, kowin v DaMarques Johnson, 2012, koloss v Alex Garcia, 2015, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1998–2015

SOURCE·Mike Swick — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-28

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-04-28. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 88 light 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
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2015 L Alex Garcia Decision3
2012 L Matt Brown KO/TKO2
2012 W DaMarques Johnson KO/TKO2
2010 L Paulo Thiago Submission2
2009 L Dan Hardy Decision3
2009 W Ben Saunders KO/TKO2
2008 W Jonathan Goulet KO/TKO1
2008 W Marcus Davis Decision3
2008 W Josh Burkman Decision3
2007 L Yushin Okami Decision3
2006 W David Loiseau Decision3
2006 W Joe Riggs Submission1
2006 W Steve Vigneault Submission1
2005 W Gideon Ray KO/TKO1
2005 W Alex Schoenauer KO/TKO1
2005 L Stephan Bonnar Submission1
2004 L Chris Leben KO/TKO2
2003 W Butch Bacon KO/TKO1
2003 W Kengo Ura KO/TKO3
2002 W James Gabert Decision3
2002 W James Whitifield KO/TKO1
1998 W Victor Bell Submission1

15 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Mike Swick — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-28

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+5.5%

77″ reach on a 73″ frame

Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.

-1.4%light heavyweight MMA reach advantage6.1%
Measurements
Reach77″ (195.6 cm)73rd pct
Height73″ (185.4 cm)40th pct
Stance—
DivisionLight Heavyweight MMA
competed at 3: middleweight, welterweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2000s — 17 of 22 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

15–6

21 bouts on record

Finish rate

73%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 38th percentile

KO/TKO: 8 (53%)Submission: 3 (20%)Decision: 4 (27%)
  • KO/TKO 53%
  • Submission 20%
  • Decision 27%

The career, bout by bout

22 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2000 2010 win vs Victor Bell (1998)win vs James Gabert (2002)win vs James Whitifield (2002)win vs Butch Bacon (2003)win vs Kengo Ura (2003)loss vs Chris Leben (2004)win vs Gideon Ray (2005)win vs Alex Schoenauer (2005)loss vs Stephan Bonnar (2005)win vs David Loiseau (2006)win vs Joe Riggs (2006)win vs Steve Vigneault (2006)loss vs Yushin Okami (2007)win vs Jonathan Goulet (2008)win vs Marcus Davis (2008)win vs Josh Burkman (2008)loss vs Dan Hardy (2009)win vs Ben Saunders (2009)loss vs Paulo Thiago (2010)loss vs Matt Brown (2012)win vs DaMarques Johnson (2012)loss vs Alex Garcia (2015)
winlossdraw / NC1998–2015

Career span

18y

1998–2015

Longest unbeaten run

5

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2005

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

22

22 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Mike Swick's record?
15–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 22 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.

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