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Tank Abbott

10–15 · 25 recorded bouts · 1995–2013

MMA record

10–15

Tank Abbott finished 90% of 10 wins inside the distance — the 59th percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

199020002010UNFILEDloss v Dan Severn, 1995, decisionloss v Oleg Taktarov, 1995, submissionloss v Don Frye, 1996, submissionloss v Scott Ferrozzo, 1996, decisionwin v Yoji Anjo, 1997, decisionloss v Maurice Smith, 1997, koloss v Vitor Belfort, 1997, koloss v Pedro Rizzo, 1998, kowin v Hugo Duarte, 1998, koloss v Wesley Correira, 2003, koloss v Kimo Leopoldo, 2003, submissionloss v Frank Mir, 2003, submissionloss v Hidehiko Yoshida, 2005, submissionwin v Wesley Correira, 2005, koloss v Paul Buentello, 2006, koloss v Gary Turner, 2007, koloss v Kimbo Slice, 2008, kowin v Mike Bourke, 2009, koloss v Ruben Villareal, 2013, kowin v Steve Nelmark, no date on recordwin v Cal Worsham, no date on recordwin v Sam Adkins, no date on recordwin v Steve Jennum, no date on recordwin v Paul Varelans, no date on recordwin v John Matua, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1995–2013 · 6 UNDATED

SOURCE·Tank Abbott — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01

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 2026-08-01. 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
2013 L Ruben Villareal KO/TKO2
2009 W Mike Bourke KO/TKO1
2008 L Kimbo Slice KO/TKO1
2007 L Gary Turner KO/TKO1
2006 L Paul Buentello KO/TKO1
2005 L Hidehiko Yoshida Submission1
2005 W Wesley Correira KO/TKO1
2003 L Wesley Correira KO/TKO1
2003 L Kimo Leopoldo Submission1
2003 L Frank Mir Submission1
1998 L Pedro Rizzo KO/TKO1
1998 W Hugo Duarte KO/TKO1
1997 W Yoji Anjo Decision1
1997 L Maurice Smith KO/TKO1
1997 L Vitor Belfort KO/TKO1
1996 L Don Frye Submission1
1996 L Scott Ferrozzo Decision1
1995 L Dan Severn Decision1
1995 L Oleg Taktarov Submission1
undated W Steve Nelmark KO/TKO—
undated W Cal Worsham Submission—
undated W Sam Adkins Submission—
undated W Steve Jennum Submission—
undated W Paul Varelans KO/TKO—
undated W John Matua KO/TKO—

16 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Tank Abbott — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height72″ (182.9 cm)
Stance—
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
Most active decade1990s — 9 of 19 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

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

2000 2010 loss vs Dan Severn (1995)loss vs Oleg Taktarov (1995)loss vs Don Frye (1996)loss vs Scott Ferrozzo (1996)win vs Yoji Anjo (1997)loss vs Maurice Smith (1997)loss vs Vitor Belfort (1997)loss vs Pedro Rizzo (1998)win vs Hugo Duarte (1998)loss vs Wesley Correira (2003)loss vs Kimo Leopoldo (2003)loss vs Frank Mir (2003)loss vs Hidehiko Yoshida (2005)win vs Wesley Correira (2005)loss vs Paul Buentello (2006)loss vs Gary Turner (2007)loss vs Kimbo Slice (2008)win vs Mike Bourke (2009)loss vs Ruben Villareal (2013)
winlossdraw / NC1995–2013

Record

MMA record

10–15

25 bouts on record

Finish rate

90%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 59th percentile

KO/TKO: 7 (70%)Submission: 2 (20%)Decision: 1 (10%)
  • KO/TKO 70%
  • Submission 20%
  • Decision 10%

The career, bout by bout

25 recorded bouts from 1995 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

19y

1995–2013

Longest unbeaten run

1

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1997

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

25

19 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Tank Abbott's record?
10–15 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 25 bouts individually.
How many of Tank Abbott's bouts have no date?
6 of 25. 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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