Mike Whitehead
74″ reach · +1.4% reach advantage · 36th percentile
26–8
Mike Whitehead has a reach of 74″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +1.4%, short for light heavyweight MMA and the 36th percentile of the 88 compared here.
SOURCE·Mike Whitehead — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-02-02
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 2026-02-02. 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 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
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 | Brian Heden | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Jojo Thompson | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Eddie Sanchez | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Chase Gormley | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2009 | L | Muhammed Lawal | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Kevin Randleman | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Leo Pla | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Renato Sobral | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Zak Jensen | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Soakai Pulu | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Daniel Sarafian | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Vernon White | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Wojtek Kaszowski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Krzysztof Soszynski | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Mark Kerr | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Michael Buchkovich | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ruben Villareal | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Rich Beecroft | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Rocky Batastini | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Mike Bourke | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Robert Beraun | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Keith Jardine | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Travis Fulton | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Aaron Brink | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Matt Bear | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Brandon Vera | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Terrell Dees | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Demian Decorah | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Brian Stromberg | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Karl Knothe | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Alex Paz | Decision | 2 |
| 2002 | L | Tim Sylvia | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Ben Rothwell | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Kim Bower | KO/TKO | 1 |
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Mike Whitehead — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-02-02
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.4%
74″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.
| Reach | 74″ (188 cm) | 22nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 40th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: heavyweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 30 of 34 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
26–8
34 bouts on record
Finish rate
77%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 46th percentile
The career, bout by bout
34 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2001–2015
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
34
34 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Frank Shamrock+1.41% 71″ reach · 38th pct
- Iwo Baraniewski+1.37% 73″ reach · 35th pct
- Junior dos Santos+1.35% 77″ reach · 31st pct
- James McSweeney+1.35% 77″ reach · 31st pct
- Dominick Reyes+1.35% 77″ reach · 31st pct
- Carlos Ulberg+1.35% 77″ reach · 31st pct
- Travis Lutter+1.33% 75″ reach · 27th pct
- Brendan Allen+1.33% 75″ reach · 27th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Mike Whitehead'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 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Whitehead sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA30 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMike Whitehead went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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