Sean Strickland
76″ reach · +4.1% reach advantage · 70th percentile
31–7
Sean Strickland 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·Sean Strickland — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-31
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 2026-07-31. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W | Khamzat Chimaev | Decision | 5 |
| 2026 | W | Anthony Hernandez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2025 | L | Dricus du Plessis | Decision | 5 |
| 2024 | W | Paulo Costa | Decision | 5 |
| 2024 | L | Dricus du Plessis | Decision | 5 |
| 2023 | W | Israel Adesanya | Decision | 5 |
| 2023 | W | Abusupiyan Magomedov | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2023 | W | Nassourdine Imavov | Decision | 5 |
| 2022 | L | Jared Cannonier | Decision | 5 |
| 2022 | L | Alex Pereira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | W | Jack Hermansson | Decision | 5 |
| 2021 | W | Uriah Hall | Decision | 5 |
| 2021 | W | Krzysztof Jotko | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Brendan Allen | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2020 | W | Jack Marshman | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Nordine Taleb | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2018 | L | Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Court McGee | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Kamaru Usman | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Tom Breese | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Alex Garcia | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Igor Araújo | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Santiago Ponzinibbio | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Luke Barnatt | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Bubba McDaniel | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Matt Lagler | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Yusuke Sakashita | Decision | 5 |
| 2013 | W | Bill Albrecht | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Josh Bryant | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Brandon Hunt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Brandon Hunt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Brett Sbardella | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Donavin Hawkey | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Adriel Montes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | George Interiano | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | William Wheeler | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Brandon Ellsworth | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Tyler Pottett | Submission | 2 |
25 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Sean Strickland — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-31
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 | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 20 of 38 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
31–7
38 bouts on record
Finish rate
52%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 4th percentile
The career, bout by bout
38 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2008–2026
Longest unbeaten run
16
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2010
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
38
38 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Tomasz Drwal+4.1% 76″ reach · 70th pct
- Rich Franklin+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 Sean Strickland's record?
- 31–7 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 38 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 Strickland sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA20 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsSean Strickland went 16 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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