Heavyweight MMA · 2000s
Cain Velasquez
77″ reach · +5.5% reach advantage · 81st percentile
Cain Velasquez has a reach of 77″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +5.5%, which is long for a heavyweight MMA fighter and sits at the 81st percentile of the 319 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+5.5%
77″ reach on a 73″ frame
Against 319 heavyweight MMA fighters. Division median is 3.29%.
| Reach | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 42nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 21st pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
14–3
17 bouts recorded
Finish rate
86%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 84%, 52nd percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Knockout | 12 | 86% |
| Submission | 0 | 0% |
| Decision | 2 | 14% |
Closest in build
Heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Frank Mir +5.35% 79″ reach · 76th pct
- Stipe Miocic +5.28% 80″ reach · 72nd pct
- Jiří Procházka +5.28% 80″ reach · 72nd pct
- Ciryl Gane +5.16% 81″ reach · 70th pct
- Mariusz Pudzianowski +6.31% 77.6″ reach · 84th pct
- Bob Sapp +6.49% 82″ reach · 86th pct
- Maurício Rua +4.1% 76″ reach · 63rd pct
- Kimbo Slice +4.04% 77″ reach · 62nd pct
How this is worked out
- Reach and height are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox and normalised to centimetres.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height, expressed as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- The percentile is that figure's rank among the 319 heavyweight MMA fighters in this dataset — not among everyone who has ever fought.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Cain Velasquez on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-12. Percentiles computed here.