Rousimar Palhares
71″ reach · +4.4% reach advantage · 81st percentile
19–13
Rousimar Palhares has a reach of 71″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +4.4%, long for light heavyweight MMA and the 81st percentile of the 88 compared here.
SOURCE·Rousimar Palhares — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
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 2026-07-25. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | L | Florent Betorangal | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | L | Anatoliy Boyko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | L | Ibragim Magomedov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | L | Georgy Kichigin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | L | Aliaskhab Khizriev | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | D | Shamil Amirov | Draw | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Aleksei Ivanov | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | L | Michał Materla | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | L | Emil Weber Meek | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Jake Shields | Submission | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Jon Fitch | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Steve Carl | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Mike Pierce | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Héctor Lombard | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Alan Belcher | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Mike Massenzio | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Dan Miller | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | David Branch | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Nate Marquardt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Tomasz Drwal | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Lucio Linhares | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Jeremy Horn | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Dan Henderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Ivan Salaverry | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Daniel Acacio | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Fabio Nascimento | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Flavio Luiz Moura | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Helio Dipp | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Claudio Mattos | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Arthur Cesar Jacintho | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Renan Moraes | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Bruno Bastos | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Leandro Silva | Decision | 3 |
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Rousimar Palhares — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-25
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.4%
71″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 2nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 2nd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 17 of 33 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Record
MMA record
19–13
33 bouts on record
Finish rate
84%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 60th percentile
The career, bout by bout
33 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
21y
2004–2024
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
33
33 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Chris Haseman+4.27% 74″ reach · 77th pct
- Darren Stewart+4.27% 74″ reach · 77th pct
- Daniel Henderson+4.27% 74″ reach · 77th 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
- Tomasz Drwal+4.1% 76″ reach · 70th pct
- Sean Strickland+4.1% 76″ reach · 70th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Rousimar Palhares's record?
- 19–13 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 33 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 Palhares sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA17 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsRousimar Palhares went 6 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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