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Stephan Bonnar

80″ reach · +6.67% reach advantage · 99th percentile

MMA record

15–9

Stephan Bonnar has a reach of 80″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +6.67%, exceptional for light heavyweight MMA and the 99th percentile of the 88 compared here.

20002010UNFILEDwin v Josh Kruger, 2001, submissionwin v Brian Ebersole, 2001, submissionwin v Terry Martin, 2002, decisionwin v Jay Massey, 2002, submissionwin v Brad Lynde, 2003, submissionloss v Lyoto Machida, 2003, kowin v Sean Sallee, 2004, submissionwin v William Hill, 2004, kowin v Sam Hoger, 2005, decisionloss v Forrest Griffin, 2005, decisionloss v Forrest Griffin, 2006, decisionloss v Rashad Evans, 2006, decisionwin v Keith Jardine, 2006, decisionwin v James Irvin, 2006, submissionwin v Eric Schafer, 2007, kowin v Mike Nickels, 2007, submissionloss v Mark Coleman, 2009, decisionloss v Jon Jones, 2009, decisionwin v Igor Pokrajac, 2010, decisionwin v Krzysztof Soszynski, 2010, kowin v Kyle Kingsbury, 2011, decisionloss v Anderson Silva, 2012, koloss v Tito Ortiz, 2014, decisionwin v Bobby Southworth, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2001–2014 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Stephan Bonnar — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-23

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 2026-01-23. 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 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

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
2014 L Tito Ortiz Decision3
2012 L Anderson Silva KO/TKO1
2011 W Kyle Kingsbury Decision3
2010 W Igor Pokrajac Decision3
2010 W Krzysztof Soszynski KO/TKO2
2009 L Mark Coleman Decision3
2009 L Jon Jones Decision3
2007 W Eric Schafer KO/TKO2
2007 W Mike Nickels Submission1
2006 L Forrest Griffin Decision3
2006 L Rashad Evans Decision3
2006 W Keith Jardine Decision3
2006 W James Irvin Submission1
2005 W Sam Hoger Decision3
2005 L Forrest Griffin Decision3
2004 W Sean Sallee Submission1
2004 W William Hill KO/TKO1
2003 W Brad Lynde Submission1
2003 L Lyoto Machida KO/TKO1
2002 W Terry Martin Decision1
2002 W Jay Massey Submission1
2001 W Josh Kruger Submission1
2001 W Brian Ebersole Submission1
undated W Bobby Southworth Decision5

18 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Stephan Bonnar — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-23

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+6.67%

80″ reach on a 75″ frame

Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.

-1.4%light heavyweight MMA reach advantage6.1%
Measurements
Reach80″ (203.2 cm)96th pct
Height75″ (190.5 cm)71st pct
StanceOrthodox
DivisionLight Heavyweight MMA
competed at 2: heavyweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2000s — 18 of 23 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

15–9

24 bouts on record

Finish rate

67%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 24th percentile

KO/TKO: 3 (20%)Submission: 7 (47%)Decision: 5 (33%)
  • KO/TKO 20%
  • Submission 47%
  • Decision 33%

The career, bout by bout

24 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2010 win vs Josh Kruger (2001)win vs Brian Ebersole (2001)win vs Terry Martin (2002)win vs Jay Massey (2002)win vs Brad Lynde (2003)loss vs Lyoto Machida (2003)win vs Sean Sallee (2004)win vs William Hill (2004)win vs Sam Hoger (2005)loss vs Forrest Griffin (2005)loss vs Forrest Griffin (2006)loss vs Rashad Evans (2006)win vs Keith Jardine (2006)win vs James Irvin (2006)win vs Eric Schafer (2007)win vs Mike Nickels (2007)loss vs Mark Coleman (2009)loss vs Jon Jones (2009)win vs Igor Pokrajac (2010)win vs Krzysztof Soszynski (2010)win vs Kyle Kingsbury (2011)loss vs Anderson Silva (2012)loss vs Tito Ortiz (2014)
winlossdraw / NC2001–2014

Career span

14y

2001–2014

Longest unbeaten run

5

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2006

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

24

23 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Stephan Bonnar's record?
15–9 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 24 bouts individually.
How many of Stephan Bonnar's bouts have no date?
1 of 24. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
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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