Ray Mercer
77″ reach · +5.5% reach advantage · 82nd percentile
1–0
Ray Mercer has a reach of 77″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +5.5%, long for heavyweight MMA and the 82nd percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Ray Mercer — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28
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 2026-07-28. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | W | Tim Sylvia | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Richel Hersisia | Decision | 6 |
| 2008 | L | Derric Rossy | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | L | Kimbo Slice | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Mikael Lindblad | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Shannon Briggs | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2005 | W | Darroll Wilson | Decision | 10 |
| 2005 | L | Remy Bonjasky | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Steve Pannell | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Musashi | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Shawn Robinson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Mario Cawley | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Wladimir Klitschko | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2002 | W | Troy Weida | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Brian Scott | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Don Steele | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2001 | W | Jeff Pegues | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Jimmy Haynes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Leo Loiacono | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Tim Witherspoon | Decision | 10 |
| 1996 | L | Lennox Lewis | — | 10 |
| 1995 | L | Evander Holyfield | Decision | 10 |
| 1994 | D | Marion Wilson | Draw | 10 |
| 1993 | W | Jesse Ferguson | Decision | 10 |
| 1993 | W | Mark Wills | Decision | 10 |
| 1993 | W | Tony Willis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Jerry Halstead | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1992 | W | Mike Dixon | — | 7 |
| 1992 | L | Larry Holmes | Decision | 12 |
| 1991 | W | Tommy Morrison | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1991 | W | Francesco Damiani | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 1990 | W | Bert Cooper | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Lionel Washington | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1990 | W | Kimmuel Odum | Decision | 12 |
| 1990 | W | Wesley Watson | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 1989 | W | Ossie Ocasio | — | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Jerry Jones | Decision | 8 |
| 1989 | W | Eddie Richardson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Arthel Lawhorne | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Dino Homsey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Tracy Thomas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Al Evans | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Ken Crosby | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | David Hopkins | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Garing Lane | — | 4 |
| 1989 | W | Luis Walford | — | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Jesse McGhee | — | 3 |
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Ray Mercer — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-28
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.5%
77″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 42nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 21st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 18 of 47 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
1–0
1 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
47 recorded bouts from 1989 to 2009. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
21y
1989–2009
Longest unbeaten run
20
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1989
12 bouts
Recorded bouts
47
47 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Ray Mercer competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 1 | — | 1 |
| Boxing | 36 | 7 | 26 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Cain Velasquez+5.5% 77″ reach · 82nd pct
- Jairzinho Rozenstruik+5.37% 78″ reach · 81st pct
- Jérôme Philippe Le Banner+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Mick Parkin+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Todd Duffee+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Derrick Lewis+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Corey Anderson+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
- Frank Mir+5.35% 79″ reach · 77th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Ray Mercer's record?
- 1–0 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 47 bouts individually.
- 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 Mercer sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 1990s MMA18 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Francesco Damiani vs Ray MercerA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
1991 Longest unbeaten runsRay Mercer went 20 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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