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Heavyweight MMA · 2000s

Bobby Lashley

15–2 · 17 recorded bouts · 2008–2016

Bobby Lashley finished 80% of 15 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.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height75″ (190.5 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
Peak era2000s
CountryUnited States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Bobby Lashley, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2010 win vs Joshua Franklin (2008)win vs Bob Sapp (2009)win vs Mike Cook (2009)win vs Jason Guida (2009)loss vs Chad Griggs (2010)win vs Wes Sims (2010)win vs Karl Knothe (2011)win vs John Ott (2011)loss vs James Thompson (2012)win vs Tony Melton (2013)win vs Matthew Larson (2013)win vs Kevin Asplund (2013)win vs Karl Etherington (2014)win vs Josh Burns (2014)win vs James Thompson (2015)win vs Dan Charles (2015)win vs Josh Appelt (2016)
winlossdraw / NC2008–2016

Record

MMA record

15–2

17 bouts on record

Finish rate

80%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 37th percentile

KO/TKO: 6 (40%)Submission: 6 (40%)Decision: 3 (20%)
  • KO/TKO 40%
  • Submission 40%
  • Decision 20%

The career, bout by bout

17 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

9y

2008–2016

Longest unbeaten run

8

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2009

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

17

17 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2016 W Josh Appelt Submission2
2015 W James Thompson KO/TKO1
2015 W Dan Charles KO/TKO2
2014 W Karl Etherington Submission1
2014 W Josh Burns Submission2
2013 W Tony Melton Decision5
2013 W Matthew Larson Submission1
2013 W Kevin Asplund Submission2
2012 L James Thompson Decision3
2011 W Karl Knothe Submission1
2011 W John Ott Decision3
2010 L Chad Griggs KO/TKO2
2010 W Wes Sims KO/TKO1
2009 W Bob Sapp Submission1
2009 W Mike Cook Submission1
2009 W Jason Guida Decision3
2008 W Joshua Franklin KO/TKO1

6 of these opponents have their own page here.

How this is worked out

  1. Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 324 heavyweight 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

Full methodology →

Source: Bobby Lashley on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-26. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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