Sean Sherk
67″ reach · +1.55% reach advantage · 39th percentile
36–4
Sean Sherk has a reach of 67″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of +1.55%, short for welterweight MMA and the 39th percentile of the 174 compared here.
SOURCE·Sean Sherk — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-05
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 2026-05-05. 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 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | W | Evan Dunham | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Frankie Edgar | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Tyson Griffin | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | B.J. Penn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Hermes França | Decision | 5 |
| 2006 | W | Kenny Florian | Decision | 5 |
| 2006 | W | Nick Diaz | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | L | Georges St-Pierre | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Joel Blanton | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Lee King | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Brodie Farber | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Darin Brudigan | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Gerald Strebendt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Eric Heinz | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Jake Short | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Kaleo Padilla | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Ryuki Ueyama | Decision | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Charles Diaz | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Mark Long | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | John Alexander | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Matt Hughes | Decision | 5 |
| 2002 | W | John Alexander | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Benji Radach | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Jutaro Nakao | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Claudionor Fontinelle | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | D | Kiuma Kunioku | Draw | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Curtis Brigham | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Jason Purcell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Marty Armendarez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Manny Gamburyan | Decision | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Tiki Ghosn | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Karo Parisyan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Ken Parham | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Karo Parisyan | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Steve Gomm | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Scott Bills | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Kurtis Jensen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Johnnie Holland | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Joe Paun | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Dean Kugler | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Roscoe Ostyn | Decision | 3 |
12 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Sean Sherk — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-05
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.55%
67″ reach on a 66″ frame
Compared against 174 welterweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 67″ (170.2 cm) | 0th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66″ (167.6 cm) | 0th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA competed at 2: lightweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 33 of 41 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
36–4
41 bouts on record
Finish rate
58%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 22nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
41 recorded bouts from 1999 to 2010. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
1999–2010
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
41
41 with a date
Closest in build
welterweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Shannon Wiratchai+1.6% 70″ reach · 39th pct
- War Machine+1.5% 72″ reach · 38th pct
- Joey Villaseñor+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Hector Aldana+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Gunnar Nelson+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Abubakar Nurmagomedov Абубакар Нурмагомедов+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Colby Covington+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Luigi Fioravanti+1.43% 70″ reach · 34th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Sean Sherk's record?
- 36–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 41 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 302 welterweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sherk sits inside.
302 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA33 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Georges St-Pierre vs Sean SherkA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2005 Longest unbeaten runsSean Sherk went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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