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Rafa García

70″ reach · +4.47% reach advantage · 83rd percentile

MMA record

18–4

Rafa García has a reach of 70″ against a height of 67″ — a reach advantage of +4.47%, long for lightweight MMA and the 83rd percentile of the 161 compared here.

20102020UNFILEDwin v Dante Ramos, 2014, submissionwin v Mike Sandoval, 2015, submissionwin v Jovany Amador, 2016, submissionwin v Marcos Bonilla, 2017, submissionwin v Raúl Najera Ocampo, 2017, submissionwin v LaRue Burley, 2018, kowin v Chase Gibson, 2018, decisionwin v Erick Gonzalez, 2019, decisionwin v Estevan Payan, 2019, submissionwin v Edgar Escarrega, 2019, submissionwin v Humberto Bandenay, 2020, decisionwin v Natan Levy, 2021, decisionloss v Chris Gruetzemacher, 2021, decisionloss v Nasrat Haqparast, 2021, decisionwin v Hayisaer Maheshate, 2022, decisionloss v Drakkar Klose, 2022, decisionwin v Jesse Ronson, 2022, submissionwin v Clay Guida, 2023, decisionloss v Grant Dawson, 2024, kowin v Jared Gordon, 2025, kowin v Vinc Pichel, 2025, decisionwin v Alexander Hernandez, 2026, decisionwin v Clay Guida, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2014–2026 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Rafa García (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-18

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 2026-07-18. 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 161 lightweight 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
2026 W Alexander Hernandez Decision3
2025 W Jared Gordon KO/TKO3
2025 W Vinc Pichel Decision3
2024 L Grant Dawson KO/TKO2
2023 W Clay Guida Decision3
2022 W Hayisaer Maheshate Decision3
2022 L Drakkar Klose Decision3
2022 W Jesse Ronson Submission2
2021 W Natan Levy Decision3
2021 L Chris Gruetzemacher Decision3
2021 L Nasrat Haqparast Decision3
2020 W Humberto Bandenay Decision3
2019 W Erick Gonzalez Decision3
2019 W Estevan Payan Submission1
2019 W Edgar Escarrega Submission2
2018 W LaRue Burley KO/TKO1
2018 W Chase Gibson Decision3
2017 W Marcos Bonilla Submission2
2017 W Raúl Najera Ocampo Submission1
2016 W Jovany Amador Submission1
2015 W Mike Sandoval Submission1
2014 W Dante Ramos Submission1
undated W Clay Guida Decision—

11 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Rafa García (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-18

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+4.47%

70″ reach on a 67″ frame

Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.

-2.9%lightweight MMA reach advantage7.4%
Measurements
Reach70″ (177.8 cm)26th pct
Height67″ (170.2 cm)12th pct
Stance—
DivisionLightweight MMA
Most active decade2020s — 12 of 22 dated bouts
CountryMexico

Record

MMA record

18–4

22 bouts on record

Finish rate

56%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 22nd percentile

KO/TKO: 2 (11%)Submission: 8 (44%)Decision: 8 (44%)
  • KO/TKO 11%
  • Submission 44%
  • Decision 44%

The career, bout by bout

23 recorded bouts from 2014 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2020 win vs Dante Ramos (2014)win vs Mike Sandoval (2015)win vs Jovany Amador (2016)win vs Marcos Bonilla (2017)win vs Raúl Najera Ocampo (2017)win vs LaRue Burley (2018)win vs Chase Gibson (2018)win vs Erick Gonzalez (2019)win vs Estevan Payan (2019)win vs Edgar Escarrega (2019)win vs Humberto Bandenay (2020)win vs Natan Levy (2021)loss vs Chris Gruetzemacher (2021)loss vs Nasrat Haqparast (2021)win vs Hayisaer Maheshate (2022)loss vs Drakkar Klose (2022)win vs Jesse Ronson (2022)win vs Clay Guida (2023)loss vs Grant Dawson (2024)win vs Jared Gordon (2025)win vs Vinc Pichel (2025)win vs Alexander Hernandez (2026)
winlossdraw / NC2014–2026

Career span

13y

2014–2026

Longest unbeaten run

12

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2019

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

23

22 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Rafa García's record?
18–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 23 bouts individually.
How many of Rafa García's bouts have no date?
1 of 23. 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.

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