B.J. Penn
16–14 · 31 recorded bouts · 2001–2019
B.J. Penn finished 81% of 16 wins inside the distance — the 60th percentile for middleweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 4: featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for B.J. Penn, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
16–14
32 bouts on record
Finish rate
81%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 60th percentile
The career, bout by bout
31 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2019. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
2001–2019
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
31
31 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | L | Clay Guida | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Ryan Hall | Submission | 1 |
| 2017 | L | Dennis Siver | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Yair Rodríguez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | L | Frankie Edgar | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Rory MacDonald | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Nick Diaz | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | D | Jon Fitch | Draw | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Matt Hughes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Frankie Edgar | Decision | 5 |
| 2009 | W | Diego Sanchez | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2009 | W | Kenny Florian | Submission | 4 |
| 2009 | L | Georges St-Pierre | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2008 | W | Sean Sherk | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Joe Stevenson | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Jens Pulver | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Matt Hughes | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Georges St-Pierre | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Renzo Gracie | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | L | Lyoto Machida | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Rodrigo Gracie | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Duane Ludwig | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Matt Hughes | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Takanori Gomi | Submission | 3 |
| 2003 | D | Caol Uno | Draw | 5 |
| 2002 | W | Matt Serra | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Paul Creighton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | L | Jens Pulver | Decision | 5 |
| 2001 | W | Caol Uno | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Din Thomas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Joey Gilbert | KO/TKO | 1 |
30 of these opponents have their own page here.
How this is worked out
- Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 244 middleweight MMA fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: B.J. Penn on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-06-17. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.