Themba Gorimbo
77″ reach · +5.5% reach advantage · 88th percentile
14–7
Themba Gorimbo has a reach of 77″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +5.5%, long for lightweight MMA and the 88th percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·Themba Gorimbo — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-21
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 2026-07-21. 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 161 lightweight 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 | L | Jonathan Micallef | Decision | 3 |
| 2025 | L | Jeremiah Wells | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | L | Vicente Luque | Submission | 1 |
| 2024 | W | Niko Price | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Ramiz Brahimaj | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Pete Rodriguez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2023 | W | Takashi Sato | Decision | 3 |
| 2023 | L | A.J. Fletcher | Submission | 2 |
| 2022 | W | Julio Rafael Rodrigues | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Handesson Ferreira | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Lyle Karam | Submission | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Luke Michael | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | José da Rocha Junior | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Dave Mazany | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Joe Cummins | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Leon Mynhardt | Submission | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Alex Cheboub | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Chaz Wasserman | Submission | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Chimmy van Winkel | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Juan Lubbe | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Sydney Mokgolo | Submission | 2 |
| undated | W | Julio Rafael Rodrigues | Decision | — |
5 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Themba Gorimbo — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-21
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.5%
77″ reach on a 73″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 98th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 95th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 2: welterweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2020s — 11 of 21 dated bouts | |
| Country | Zimbabwe |
Record
MMA record
14–7
21 bouts on record
Finish rate
57%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 26th percentile
The career, bout by bout
22 recorded bouts from 2013 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
2013–2026
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2024
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
22
21 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Jai Herbert+5.5% 77″ reach · 88th pct
- Daniel Zellhuber+5.5% 77″ reach · 88th pct
- Edson Barboza+5.66% 75″ reach · 89th pct
- Maurício Ruffy+5.66% 75″ reach · 89th pct
- Ivan Jorge+5.74% 74″ reach · 91st pct
- Pat Healy+5.74% 74″ reach · 91st pct
- Rob Font+5.15% 71.5″ reach · 87th pct
- Damian Rzepecki+5.12% 73.6″ reach · 86th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Themba Gorimbo's record?
- 14–7 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 22 bouts individually.
- How many of Themba Gorimbo's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 22. 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.
