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Shane Carwin

12–2 · 14 recorded bouts · 2005–2011

MMA record

12–2

Shane Carwin finished 100% of 12 wins inside the distance — the 72nd percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

20002010win v Carlton Jones, 2005, submissionwin v Chris Guillen, 2006, submissionwin v Justice Smith, 2006, kowin v Jay McCown, 2006, submissionwin v Casey Jackson, 2006, submissionwin v Sherman Pendergarst, 2007, kowin v Rex Richards, 2007, submissionwin v Rick Slaton, 2007, kowin v Neil Wain, 2008, kowin v Christian Wellisch, 2008, kowin v Gabriel Gonzaga, 2009, koloss v Brock Lesnar, 2010, submissionwin v Frank Mir, 2010, koloss v Junior dos Santos, 2011, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2005–2011

SOURCE·Shane Carwin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-03

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 2026-05-03. 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 324 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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
2011 L Junior dos Santos Decision3
2010 L Brock Lesnar Submission2
2010 W Frank Mir KO/TKO1
2009 W Gabriel Gonzaga KO/TKO1
2008 W Neil Wain KO/TKO1
2008 W Christian Wellisch KO/TKO1
2007 W Sherman Pendergarst KO/TKO1
2007 W Rex Richards Submission1
2007 W Rick Slaton KO/TKO1
2006 W Chris Guillen Submission1
2006 W Justice Smith KO/TKO1
2006 W Jay McCown Submission1
2006 W Casey Jackson Submission1
2005 W Carlton Jones Submission1

5 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Shane Carwin — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-03

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height74″ (188 cm)
Stance—
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
Most active decade2000s — 11 of 14 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Shane Carwin, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2010 win vs Carlton Jones (2005)win vs Chris Guillen (2006)win vs Justice Smith (2006)win vs Jay McCown (2006)win vs Casey Jackson (2006)win vs Sherman Pendergarst (2007)win vs Rex Richards (2007)win vs Rick Slaton (2007)win vs Neil Wain (2008)win vs Christian Wellisch (2008)win vs Gabriel Gonzaga (2009)loss vs Brock Lesnar (2010)win vs Frank Mir (2010)loss vs Junior dos Santos (2011)
winlossdraw / NC2005–2011

Record

MMA record

12–2

14 bouts on record

Finish rate

100%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile

KO/TKO: 8 (67%)Submission: 4 (33%)
  • KO/TKO 67%
  • Submission 33%

The career, bout by bout

14 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

7y

2005–2011

Longest unbeaten run

11

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2006

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

14

14 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Shane Carwin's record?
12–2 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 14 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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