Rani Yahya
68″ reach · +3.04% reach advantage · 65th percentile
28–12
Rani Yahya has a reach of 68″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +3.04%, above average for lightweight MMA and the 65th percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·Rani Yahya — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-09
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 2026-06-09. 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | L | Victor Henry | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2023 | L | Montel Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2021 | W | Kang Kyung-ho | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | W | Ray Rodriguez | Submission | 2 |
| 2020 | D | Enrique Barzola | Draw | 3 |
| 2019 | L | Ricky Simón | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Luke Sanders | Submission | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Russell Doane | Submission | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Henry Briones | Submission | 1 |
| 2017 | L | Joe Soto | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Michinori Tanaka | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Matthew Lopez | Submission | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Masanori Kanehara | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Johnny Bedford | Submission | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Tom Niinimäki | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Josh Clopton | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Mizuto Hirota | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Josh Grispi | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Chad Mendes | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Mike Brown | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Takeya Mizugaki | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Joseph Benavidez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | John Hosman | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Eddie Wineland | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Yoshiro Maeda | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Norifumi Yamamoto | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Chase Beebe | Decision | 5 |
| 2007 | W | Mark Hominick | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Louie Moreno | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Gesias Cavalcante | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Kazuya Yasuhiro | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Eben Kaneshiro | Submission | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Ryuki Ueyama | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Takumi Yano | Submission | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Taiyo Nakahara | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Fabio Alves | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Fredson Paixao | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Luciano Santos | Submission | — |
| 2002 | W | Junior Peba | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Muzila Muzila | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Fabio Alves | Submission | — |
26 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Rani Yahya — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-09
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.04%
68″ reach on a 66″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 6th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 4th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 3: bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 18 of 39 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Record
MMA record
28–12
41 bouts on record
Finish rate
75%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 59th percentile
The career, bout by bout
41 recorded bouts from 2002 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
23y
2002–2024
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
41
39 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Felicia Spencer+3.04% 68″ reach · 65th pct
- Michihiro Omigawa 小見川道大+3.04% 68″ reach · 65th pct
- Matt Serra+3.04% 68″ reach · 65th pct
- Brad Pickett+3.04% 68″ reach · 65th pct
- Kai Kamaka III+3% 69″ reach · 63rd pct
- Norifumi Yamamoto+3.08% 66″ reach · 68th pct
- Diego Brandão+3% 69″ reach · 63rd pct
- Malaipet+3.12% 69″ reach · 68th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Rani Yahya's record?
- 28–12 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 41 bouts individually.
- How many of Rani Yahya's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 41. 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 304 lightweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Yahya sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA18 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsRani Yahya went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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