Rob Emerson
71″ reach · +4.4% reach advantage · 72nd percentile
21–15
Rob Emerson has a reach of 71″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +4.4%, above average for bantamweight MMA and the 72nd percentile of the 101 compared here.
SOURCE·Rob Emerson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-03-21
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 2026-03-21. 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 101 bantamweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | W | Charles Bennett | KO/TKO | — |
| 2019 | L | Dileno Lopes | Submission | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Mikhail Malyutin | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Magomedrasul Khasbulaev | Submission | 2 |
| 2018 | W | Shamil Shakhbulatov | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Raufeon Stots | Decision | 5 |
| 2016 | W | Ryan Roberts | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Shawn West | Submission | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Rafael Silva | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Joe Taimanglo | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Jared Downing | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Musa Toliver | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Jason Williams | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Savant Young | Submission | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Justin Salas | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Eric Reynolds | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Rodney Rhoden | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Nik Lentz | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Phillipe Nover | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Rafael dos Anjos | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Kurt Pellegrino | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Manvel Gamburyan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Keita Nakamura | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | N | Gray Maynard | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Kenji Arai | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Takafumi Ito | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Jamie Schmidt | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Julian Samaniego | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Melvin Guillard | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Randy Velarde | Decision | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Joe Camacho | Decision | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Justin Berkley | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Dokonjonosuke Mishima | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Javier Vazquez | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Chris Brennan | Submission | — |
| 2002 | L | Jamal Perkins | Decision | 2 |
| 2002 | L | Jens Pulver | Decision | 3 |
17 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Rob Emerson — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-03-21
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.4%
71″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 101 bantamweight MMA fighters. Median 1.51%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 80th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 67th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Bantamweight MMA competed at 3: lightweight, featherweight, bantamweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 18 of 37 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
21–15
36 bouts on record
Finish rate
62%
of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight MMA median 68%, 40th percentile
The career, bout by bout
37 recorded bouts from 2002 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
20y
2002–2021
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2004
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
37
37 with a date
Closest in build
bantamweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Johnny Eduardo+4.4% 71″ reach · 72nd pct
- Russell Doane+4.47% 70″ reach · 74th pct
- Vince Morales+4.47% 70″ reach · 74th pct
- Enrique Barzola+4.47% 70″ reach · 74th pct
- Adrian Yañez+4.47% 70″ reach · 74th pct
- Tatsuro Taira+4.47% 70″ reach · 74th pct
- Thomas Almeida+4.47% 70″ reach · 74th pct
- Magomed Magomedov+4.59% 69″ reach · 80th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Rob Emerson's record?
- 21–15 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 186 bantamweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Emerson sits inside.
186 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 runsRob Emerson went 5 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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