Rich Franklin
76″ reach · +4.1% reach advantage · 70th percentile
29–7
Rich Franklin has a reach of 76″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +4.1%, above average for light heavyweight MMA and the 70th percentile of the 88 compared here.
SOURCE·Rich Franklin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-16
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 2026-04-16. 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 88 light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | L | Cung Le | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Wanderlei Silva | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | L | Forrest Griffin | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Chuck Liddell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Wanderlei Silva | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Dan Henderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Matt Hamill | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Travis Lutter | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Anderson Silva | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Yushin Okami | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Jason MacDonald | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Anderson Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | David Loiseau | Decision | 5 |
| 2005 | W | Nate Quarry | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Evan Tanner | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2005 | W | Ken Shamrock | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Curtis Stout | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Jorge Rivera | Submission | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Ralph Dillon | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Leo Sylvest | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Lyoto Machida | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Edwin Dewees | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Roberto Ramirez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Evan Tanner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Antony Rea | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Yan Pellerin | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Marvin Eastman | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Dennis Reed | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Chris Seifert | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Travis Fulton | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | N | Aaron Brink | — | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Dennis Reed | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Gary Myers | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Rob Smith | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Eugene Pinault | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Michael Martin | KO/TKO | 1 |
22 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Rich Franklin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-04-16
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.1%
76″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.
| Reach | 76″ (193 cm) | 53rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 40th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 31 of 37 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
29–7
36 bouts on record
Finish rate
86%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 64th percentile
The career, bout by bout
37 recorded bouts from 1999 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
1999–2012
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
37
37 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Tomasz Drwal+4.1% 76″ reach · 70th pct
- Sean Strickland+4.1% 76″ reach · 70th pct
- Ricardo Arona+4.05% 72.8″ reach · 69th pct
- Emiliano Sordi+4.04% 77″ reach · 67th pct
- Attila Végh+4.04% 77″ reach · 67th pct
- Carlos Felipe+4.16% 75″ reach · 74th pct
- Parker Porter+4.16% 75″ reach · 74th pct
- Tom Lawlor+4.16% 75″ reach · 74th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Rich Franklin's record?
- 29–7 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 37 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 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Franklin sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA31 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Cung Le vs Rich FranklinA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2012 Longest unbeaten runsRich Franklin went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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