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Tito Ortiz

74″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 6th percentile

MMA record

21–12

Tito Ortiz has a reach of 74″ against a height of 74″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for heavyweight MMA and the 6th percentile of the 140 compared here.

1990200020102020UNFILEDloss v Guy Mezger, 1997, submissionwin v Jeremy Screeton, 1998, submissionloss v Frank Shamrock, 1999, submissionwin v Guy Mezger, 1999, kowin v Jerry Bohlander, 1999, kowin v Yuki Kondo, 2000, submissionwin v Wanderlei Silva, 2000, decisionloss v Sean Alvarez, 2000, decisionwin v Matt Hughes*, 2000, decisionwin v Vladimir Matyushenko, 2001, decisionwin v Elvis Sinosic, 2001, kowin v Evan Tanner, 2001, kowin v Ken Shamrock, 2002, koloss v Randy Couture, 2003, decisionwin v Patrick Côté, 2004, decisionloss v Chuck Liddell, 2004, kowin v Vitor Belfort, 2005, decisionloss v Chuck Liddell, 2006, kowin v Ken Shamrock, 2006, kowin v Forrest Griffin, 2006, decisiondraw v Rashad Evans, 2007, drawloss v Lyoto Machida, 2008, decisionloss v Forrest Griffin, 2009, decisionloss v Matt Hamill, 2010, decisionloss v Antônio Rogério Nogueira, 2011, koloss v Rashad Evans, 2011, kowin v Ryan Bader, 2011, submissionloss v Forrest Griffin, 2012, decisionwin v Stephan Bonnar, 2014, decisionwin v Alexander Shlemenko, 2014, submissionloss v Liam McGeary, 2015, submissionwin v Chael Sonnen, 2017, submissionwin v Chuck Liddell, 2018, kowin v Alberto El Patrón, 2019, submissionloss v Anderson Silva, 2021win v Wes Albritton, no date on recordwin v Rodrigo Medeiros, no date on recordwin v Rumina Sato, no date on recordloss v Ricardo Arona, no date on recordwin v Mike Van Arsdale, no date on recordwin v Rostylav Borysenko, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1997–2021 · 6 UNDATED

SOURCE·Tito Ortiz — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-23

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 2026-07-23. 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 140 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
2021 L Anderson Silva —1
2019 W Alberto El Patrón Submission1
2018 W Chuck Liddell KO/TKO1
2017 W Chael Sonnen Submission1
2015 L Liam McGeary Submission1
2014 W Stephan Bonnar Decision3
2014 W Alexander Shlemenko Submission1
2012 L Forrest Griffin Decision3
2011 L Antônio Rogério Nogueira KO/TKO1
2011 L Rashad Evans KO/TKO2
2011 W Ryan Bader Submission1
2010 L Matt Hamill Decision3
2009 L Forrest Griffin Decision3
2008 L Lyoto Machida Decision3
2007 D Rashad Evans Draw3
2006 L Chuck Liddell KO/TKO3
2006 W Ken Shamrock KO/TKO1
2006 W Forrest Griffin Decision3
2005 W Vitor Belfort Decision3
2004 W Patrick Côté Decision3
2004 L Chuck Liddell KO/TKO2
2003 L Randy Couture Decision5
2002 W Ken Shamrock KO/TKO3
2001 W Vladimir Matyushenko Decision5
2001 W Elvis Sinosic KO/TKO1
2001 W Evan Tanner KO/TKO1
2000 W Yuki Kondo Submission1
2000 W Wanderlei Silva Decision5
2000 L Sean Alvarez Decision—
2000 W Matt Hughes* Decision—
1999 L Frank Shamrock Submission4
1999 W Guy Mezger KO/TKO1
1999 W Jerry Bohlander KO/TKO1
1998 W Jeremy Screeton Submission1
1997 L Guy Mezger Submission1
undated W Wes Albritton KO/TKO—
undated W Rodrigo Medeiros Decision—
undated W Rumina Sato Submission—
undated L Ricardo Arona Decision—
undated W Mike Van Arsdale Submission—
undated W Rostylav Borysenko Submission—

35 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Tito Ortiz — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-23

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

74″ reach on a 74″ frame

Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.

-4%heavyweight MMA reach advantage9.9%
Measurements
Reach74″ (188 cm)13th pct
Height74″ (188 cm)35th pct
Stance—
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2000s — 18 of 35 dated bouts
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

21–12

34 bouts on record

Finish rate

71%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 26th percentile

KO/TKO: 10 (48%)Submission: 5 (24%)Decision: 6 (29%)
  • KO/TKO 48%
  • Submission 24%
  • Decision 29%

The career, bout by bout

41 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2000 2010 2020 loss vs Guy Mezger (1997)win vs Jeremy Screeton (1998)loss vs Frank Shamrock (1999)win vs Guy Mezger (1999)win vs Jerry Bohlander (1999)win vs Yuki Kondo (2000)win vs Wanderlei Silva (2000)loss vs Sean Alvarez (2000)win vs Matt Hughes* (2000)win vs Vladimir Matyushenko (2001)win vs Elvis Sinosic (2001)win vs Evan Tanner (2001)win vs Ken Shamrock (2002)loss vs Randy Couture (2003)win vs Patrick Côté (2004)loss vs Chuck Liddell (2004)win vs Vitor Belfort (2005)loss vs Chuck Liddell (2006)win vs Ken Shamrock (2006)win vs Forrest Griffin (2006)draw vs Rashad Evans (2007)loss vs Lyoto Machida (2008)loss vs Forrest Griffin (2009)loss vs Matt Hamill (2010)loss vs Antônio Rogério Nogueira (2011)loss vs Rashad Evans (2011)win vs Ryan Bader (2011)loss vs Forrest Griffin (2012)win vs Stephan Bonnar (2014)win vs Alexander Shlemenko (2014)loss vs Liam McGeary (2015)win vs Chael Sonnen (2017)win vs Chuck Liddell (2018)win vs Alberto El Patrón (2019)loss vs Anderson Silva (2021)
winlossdraw / NC1997–2021

Career span

25y

1997–2021

Longest unbeaten run

5

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2000

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

41

35 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Tito Ortiz's record?
21–12 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 41 bouts individually.
How many of Tito Ortiz's bouts have no date?
6 of 41. 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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