Wanderlei Silva
35–14 · 51 recorded bouts · 1996–2025
35–14
Wanderlei Silva finished 80% of 35 wins inside the distance — the 37th percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Wanderlei Silva — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-11
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 2026-06-11. 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 324 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L | Acelino Freitas | — | 4 |
| 2018 | L | Quinton Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | L | Chael Sonnen | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | D | Kazushi Sakuraba and Hideo Tokoro | Draw | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Brian Stann | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | L | Rich Franklin | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Cung Le | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Chris Leben | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Michael Bisping | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Rich Franklin | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Quinton Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Keith Jardine | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Chuck Liddell | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Dan Henderson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Kazuyuki Fujita | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ricardo Arona | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Kazuhiro Nakamura | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Hidehiko Yoshida | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Mark Hunt | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Quinton Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Yuki Kondo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Ikuhisa Minowa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Quinton Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Hiromitsu Kanehara | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Tatsuya Iwasaki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | D | Mirko Cro Cop | Draw | 5 |
| 2002 | W | Kiyoshi Tamura | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Alexander Otsuka | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Shungo Oyama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Dan Henderson | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | N | Gilbert Yvel | — | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Guy Mezger | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Todd Medina | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Tito Ortiz | Decision | 5 |
| 2000 | W | Bob Schrijber | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Daijiro Matsui | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Carl Malenko | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Tony Petarra | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Eugene Jackson | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Adrian Serrano | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Mike van Arsdale | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Artur Mariano | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Marcelao Barbosa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Dilson Filho | KO/TKO | 1 |
| undated | W | Hidehiko Yoshida | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Egidio da Costa | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Sean Bormet | KO/TKO | — |
34 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Wanderlei Silva — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-11
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 29 of 48 dated bouts | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Wanderlei Silva, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
35–14
50 bouts on record
Finish rate
80%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 37th percentile
The career, bout by bout
51 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
30y
1996–2025
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2000
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
51
48 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Wanderlei Silva's record?
- 35–14 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 51 bouts individually.
- How many of Wanderlei Silva's bouts have no date?
- 3 of 51. 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.
Where this record leads
The 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Silva sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA29 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Rampage Jackson vs Wanderlei SilvaA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2003 Longest unbeaten runsWanderlei Silva went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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