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Rory Markham

71″ reach · +1.41% reach advantage · 29th percentile

MMA record

17–6

Rory Markham has a reach of 71″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +1.41%, short for welterweight MMA and the 29th percentile of the 174 compared here.

20002010loss v Kurt Illeman, 2003, kowin v John Bulger, 2003, kowin v James Warfield, 2004, kowin v Ryan Williams, 2004, submissionwin v Jason Guida, 2004, submissionwin v Mike Van Meer, 2005, kowin v Victor Moreno, 2005, submissionwin v Jimmy Boyd, 2005, submissionloss v Chris Wilson, 2006, kowin v Keith Wisniewski, 2006, kowin v Marcelo Azevedo, 2006, kowin v Brad Blackburn, 2006, kowin v Mike Pyle, 2006, koloss v Trevor Garrett, 2006, kowin v Brian Green, 2006, koloss v Brett Cooper, 2007, kowin v Chris Clements, 2007, kowin v Pat Healy, 2007, kowin v Brodie Farber, 2008, kowin v Jay Ellis, 2008, submissionloss v Dan Hardy, 2009, koloss v Nate Diaz, 2010, kowin v Brian Green, 2016, ko
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2003–2016

SOURCE·Rory Markham — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-23

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-23. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 174 welterweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2016 W Brian Green KO/TKO1
2010 L Nate Diaz KO/TKO1
2009 L Dan Hardy KO/TKO1
2008 W Brodie Farber KO/TKO1
2008 W Jay Ellis Submission1
2007 L Brett Cooper KO/TKO2
2007 W Chris Clements KO/TKO1
2007 W Pat Healy KO/TKO3
2006 L Chris Wilson KO/TKO1
2006 W Keith Wisniewski KO/TKO3
2006 W Marcelo Azevedo KO/TKO1
2006 W Brad Blackburn KO/TKO2
2006 W Mike Pyle KO/TKO1
2006 L Trevor Garrett KO/TKO1
2006 W Brian Green KO/TKO1
2005 W Mike Van Meer KO/TKO1
2005 W Victor Moreno Submission1
2005 W Jimmy Boyd Submission1
2004 W James Warfield KO/TKO2
2004 W Ryan Williams Submission2
2004 W Jason Guida Submission2
2003 L Kurt Illeman KO/TKO1
2003 W John Bulger KO/TKO1

8 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Rory Markham — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-23

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+1.41%

71″ reach on a 70″ frame

Compared against 174 welterweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.

-2.7%welterweight MMA reach advantage8.6%
Measurements
Reach71″ (180.3 cm)15th pct
Height70″ (177.8 cm)28th pct
StanceOrthodox
DivisionWelterweight MMA
competed at 2: middleweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2000s — 21 of 23 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

17–6

23 bouts on record

Finish rate

100%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 95th percentile

KO/TKO: 12 (71%)Submission: 5 (29%)
  • KO/TKO 71%
  • Submission 29%

The career, bout by bout

23 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2010 loss vs Kurt Illeman (2003)win vs John Bulger (2003)win vs James Warfield (2004)win vs Ryan Williams (2004)win vs Jason Guida (2004)win vs Mike Van Meer (2005)win vs Victor Moreno (2005)win vs Jimmy Boyd (2005)loss vs Chris Wilson (2006)win vs Keith Wisniewski (2006)win vs Marcelo Azevedo (2006)win vs Brad Blackburn (2006)win vs Mike Pyle (2006)loss vs Trevor Garrett (2006)win vs Brian Green (2006)loss vs Brett Cooper (2007)win vs Chris Clements (2007)win vs Pat Healy (2007)win vs Brodie Farber (2008)win vs Jay Ellis (2008)loss vs Dan Hardy (2009)loss vs Nate Diaz (2010)win vs Brian Green (2016)
winlossdraw / NC2003–2016

Career span

14y

2003–2016

Longest unbeaten run

7

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2006

7 bouts

Recorded bouts

23

23 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Rory Markham's record?
17–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 23 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.

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