Raphael Butler
77″ reach · +2.68% reach advantage · 39th percentile
9–2
Raphael Butler has a reach of 77″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +2.68%, short for heavyweight MMA and the 39th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Raphael Butler — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-09-12
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 2025-09-12. 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 140 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 | Tony Johnson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Josh Diekmann | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Javy Ayala | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | D | Nick Rossborough | Draw | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Josh Burns | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Joseph Bryant | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Jeremiah O'Neal | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Brett Murphy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Steven Shaw | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Richard White | Submission | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Jeremy Beck | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Chris Arreola | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Tye Fields | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2011 | L | David Price | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Gabe Hobbs | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Neven Pajkic | Decision | 10 |
| 2009 | ? | Joey Abell | — | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Marcus Rhode | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Malik Scott | Decision | 8 |
| 2008 | L | Homero Fonseca | Decision | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Marvin Hunt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Travis Fulton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Lyle McDowell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Eddie Chambers | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2008 | W | Otis Tisdale | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2008 | W | Kerry Biles | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Sam Comming | Decision | 4 |
| 2007 | W | Sedreck Fields | Decision | 4 |
| 2007 | W | Clarence Goins | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Travis Fulton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Art Binkowski | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2007 | W | Brad Bowers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Louis Monaco | DQ | 6 |
| 2006 | W | Cornelius Ellis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Matt Green | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Dan Ward | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Eric Starr | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Troy Beets | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Wallace McDaniel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Jason Gavern | Decision | 6 |
| 2006 | W | Forrest Neal | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ronnie Smith | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | L | John Clark | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Andrew Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Innocent Otukwu | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | John Dixon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Kerry Biles | Decision | 5 |
| 2005 | L | Darrell Provo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Brian Sargent | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Marcelo Aravena | Decision | 4 |
| 2004 | W | David Cleage | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Glen Morgan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Ross Brantley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Harold Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Arthur Boyles | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | ? | Eric Lindsey | — | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Victor Ortiz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Royphy Solieau | KO/TKO | 3 |
| undated | ? | TKO | — | 2016 |
| undated | ? | Submission | — | 2015 |
Showing 60 of 61 recorded bouts, most recent first.
13 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Raphael Butler — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-09-12
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.68%
77″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 42nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 48th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 42 of 58 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
9–2
12 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
61 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
2004–2016
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2004
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
61
58 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Raphael Butler competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 9 | 2 | 6 |
| Boxing | 35 | 12 | 28 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Anthony Gomez+2.68% 77″ reach · 39th pct
- Tommy Morrison+2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Gian Villante+2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Gabriel Gonzaga+2.66% 76″ reach · 36th pct
- Dillian Whyte+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Marek Bujło+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Chase Sherman+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
- Waldo Cortes-Acosta+2.64% 78″ reach · 33rd pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Raphael Butler's record?
- 9–2 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 61 bouts individually.
- How many of Raphael Butler's bouts have no date?
- 3 of 61. 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 Butler sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA42 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsRaphael Butler went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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