Paul Buentello
76″ reach · +1.31% reach advantage · 24th percentile
35–17
Paul Buentello has a reach of 76″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +1.31%, unusually short for light heavyweight MMA and the 24th percentile of the 88 compared here.
SOURCE·Paul Buentello — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24
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 2026-07-24. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | L | Denis Goltsov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Eric Prindle | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Myron Dennis | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | James McSweeney | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Igor Kostin | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Mike Cook | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Igor Kostin | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Darrill Schoonover | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Cole Konrad | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Kerry Schall | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Tim Sylvia | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Bryan Humes | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Cheick Kongo | Submission | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Stefan Struve | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Kirill Sidelnikov | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Gary Goodridge | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Alistair Overeem | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Carter Williams | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Ruben Villareal | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Tank Abbott | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Gilbert Aldana | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Andrei Arlovski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Kevin Jordan | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Justin Eilers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Bo Cantrell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Lloyd Marshbanks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Bobby Hoffman | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Andy Montana | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Mike Kyle | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | W | Roger Neff | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Jimmy Westfall | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Gary Marshall | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Nate Schroeder | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Sam Sotello | Submission | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Ricco Rodriguez | Submission | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Larry Parker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Gan McGee | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Rocky Batastini | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Jason Godsey | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Jimmy Westfall | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Denny Mathias | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Gilbert Duran | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Todd Broadaway | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Larry Parker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Shane Saavedra | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Dustin Heronemus | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Dan Severn | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Evan Tanner | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | David Davis | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Derek McGill | Submission | 1 |
18 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Paul Buentello — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-24
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.31%
76″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.
| Reach | 76″ (193 cm) | 53rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 71st pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: heavyweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 26 of 51 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
35–17
52 bouts on record
Finish rate
89%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 71st percentile
The career, bout by bout
51 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
20y
1997–2016
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
51
51 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Henrique da Silva+1.31% 76″ reach · 24th pct
- Bogdan Guskov+1.31% 76″ reach · 24th pct
- Travis Lutter+1.33% 75″ reach · 27th pct
- Brendan Allen+1.33% 75″ reach · 27th pct
- Makhmud Muradov+1.33% 75″ reach · 27th 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
What this record does and does not say
- What is Paul Buentello's record?
- 35–17 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 51 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 Buentello sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA26 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsPaul Buentello went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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