Phil Davis
25–8 · 33 recorded bouts · 2008–2025
25–8
Phil Davis finished 48% of 25 wins inside the distance — the 2nd percentile for light heavyweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Phil Davis (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-05
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 2026-05-05. 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 183 light heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L | Sullivan Cauley | Decision | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Rob Wilkinson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2023 | L | Corey Anderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Julius Anglickas | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | W | Yoel Romero | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Vadim Nemkov | Decision | 5 |
| 2020 | W | Lyoto Machida | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Karl Albrektsson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Liam McGeary | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Vadim Nemkov | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Linton Vassell | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Leonardo Leite | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Ryan Bader | Decision | 5 |
| 2016 | W | Liam McGeary | Decision | 5 |
| 2016 | W | Muhammed Lawal | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Francis Carmont | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Ryan Bader | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Glover Teixeira | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Anthony Johnson | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Lyoto Machida | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Vinny Magalhães | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Wagner Prado | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | L | Rashad Evans | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Tim Boetsch | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Rodney Wallace | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Alexander Gustafsson | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Brian Stann | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | David Baggett | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Terry Cohens | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Josh Green | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Brett Chism | Decision | 2 |
| undated | W | Emanuel Newton | Submission | — |
26 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Phil Davis (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-05
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 74″ (188 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 21 of 32 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Phil Davis, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
25–8
33 bouts on record
Finish rate
48%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 2nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
33 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
2008–2025
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2010
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
33
32 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Phil Davis's record?
- 25–8 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 33 bouts individually.
- How many of Phil Davis's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 33. 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 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Davis sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA21 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsPhil Davis went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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