Ben Askren
19–2 · 22 recorded bouts · 2009–2021
Ben Askren finished 63% of 19 wins inside the distance — the 32nd percentile for welterweight MMA, where the median is 73%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA competed at 3: cruiserweight, middleweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2010s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Ben Askren, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
19–2
21 bouts on record
Finish rate
63%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 32nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
22 recorded bouts from 2009 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
2009–2021
Longest unbeaten run
17
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2009
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
22
22 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | L | Jake Paul | — | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Demian Maia | Submission | 3 |
| 2019 | L | Jorge Masvidal | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Robbie Lawler | Submission | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Shinya Aoki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Zebaztian Kadestam | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Agilan Thani | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Nikolay Aleksakhin | Decision | 5 |
| 2015 | N | Luis Santos | — | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Nobutatsu Suzuki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Bakhtiyar Abbasov | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Andrey Koreshkov | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2013 | W | Karl Amoussou | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Douglas Lima | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Jay Hieron | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Nick Thompson | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Lyman Good | Decision | 5 |
| 2010 | W | Dan Hornbuckle | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Ryan Thomas | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Matt Delanoit | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Mitchell Harris | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Josh Flowers | KO/TKO | 1 |
11 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Ben Askren competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 19 | 2 | 6 |
| Boxing | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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 299 welterweight 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: Ben Askren on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-28. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.