Randy Couture
19–11 · 28 recorded bouts · 1997–2011
19–11
Randy Couture finished 58% of 19 wins inside the distance — the 11th percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Randy Couture — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06
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 2026-07-06. 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 324 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | L | Lyoto Machida | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | James Toney | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Mark Coleman | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Brandon Vera | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Brock Lesnar | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Gabriel Gonzaga | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Tim Sylvia | Decision | 5 |
| 2006 | L | Chuck Liddell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Mike van Arsdale | Submission | 3 |
| 2005 | L | Chuck Liddell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Tito Ortiz | Decision | 5 |
| 2003 | W | Chuck Liddell | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Ricco Rodriguez | Submission | 5 |
| 2002 | L | Josh Barnett | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Pedro Rizzo | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Valentijn Overeem | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Kevin Randleman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Ryushi Yanagisawa | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | L | Mikhail Ilyukhin | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Enson Inoue | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Maurice Smith | Decision | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Steven Graham | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | W | Tsuyoshi Kohsaka | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Jeremy Horn | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Tony Halme | Submission | — |
26 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Randy Couture — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-06
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | not recorded | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 17 of 25 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Randy Couture, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
19–11
30 bouts on record
Finish rate
58%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 11th percentile
The career, bout by bout
28 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1997–2011
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1997
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
28
25 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Randy Couture's record?
- 19–11 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 28 bouts individually.
- How many of Randy Couture's bouts have no date?
- 3 of 28. 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 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Couture sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA17 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Brock Lesnar vs Randy CoutureA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2008