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Steve Cantwell

7–6 · 13 recorded bouts · 2005–2012

MMA record

7–6

Steve Cantwell finished 100% of 7 wins inside the distance — the 88th percentile for middleweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

20002010win v Richie Hightower, 2005, submissionwin v Leonardo Pecanha, 2006, kowin v Mike Ashford, 2006, submissionwin v Justin McElfresh, 2007, koloss v Brian Stann, 2007, kowin v Razak Al-Hassan, 2008, submissionwin v Brian Stann, 2008, kowin v Tim McKenzie, 2008, submissionloss v Brian Stann, 2009, decisionloss v Luiz Cané, 2009, decisionloss v Mike Massenzio, 2011, decisionloss v Cyrille Diabaté, 2011, decisionloss v Riki Fukuda, 2012, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2005–2012

SOURCE·Steve Cantwell — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-30

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 2026-05-30. 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 244 middleweight 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
2012 L Riki Fukuda Decision3
2011 L Mike Massenzio Decision3
2011 L Cyrille Diabaté Decision3
2009 L Brian Stann Decision3
2009 L Luiz Cané Decision3
2008 W Razak Al-Hassan Submission1
2008 W Brian Stann KO/TKO2
2008 W Tim McKenzie Submission1
2007 W Justin McElfresh KO/TKO1
2007 L Brian Stann KO/TKO1
2006 W Leonardo Pecanha KO/TKO3
2006 W Mike Ashford Submission1
2005 W Richie Hightower Submission1

6 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Steve Cantwell — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-30

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height74″ (188 cm)
Stance—
DivisionMiddleweight MMA
competed at 2: light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2000s — 10 of 13 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

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

2010 win vs Richie Hightower (2005)win vs Leonardo Pecanha (2006)win vs Mike Ashford (2006)win vs Justin McElfresh (2007)loss vs Brian Stann (2007)win vs Razak Al-Hassan (2008)win vs Brian Stann (2008)win vs Tim McKenzie (2008)loss vs Brian Stann (2009)loss vs Luiz Cané (2009)loss vs Mike Massenzio (2011)loss vs Cyrille Diabaté (2011)loss vs Riki Fukuda (2012)
winlossdraw / NC2005–2012

Record

MMA record

7–6

13 bouts on record

Finish rate

100%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 88th percentile

KO/TKO: 3 (43%)Submission: 4 (57%)
  • KO/TKO 43%
  • Submission 57%

The career, bout by bout

13 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

8y

2005–2012

Longest unbeaten run

4

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2008

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

13

13 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Steve Cantwell's record?
7–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 13 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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