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Strawweight MMA · 2010s

Carla Esparza

19–8 · 30 recorded bouts · 2010–2024

Carla Esparza finished 42% of 19 wins inside the distance — the 32nd percentile for strawweight MMA, where the median is 54%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height61″ (154.9 cm)
Stance
DivisionStrawweight MMA
Peak era2010s
CountryUnited States

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

2010 2020 win vs Nina Ansaroff (2010)loss vs Megumi Fujii (2010)win vs Lacey Schuckman (2010)win vs Karina Hallinan (2010)win vs Cassie Trost (2010)win vs Felice Herrig (2011)loss vs Jessica Aguilar (2011)win vs Yadira Anzaldua (2011)win vs Lynn Alvarez (2012)win vs Sarah Schneider (2012)win vs Bec Rawlings (2013)win vs Rose Namajunas (2014)win vs Jessica Penne (2014)loss vs Joanna Jędrzejczyk (2015)win vs Juliana Lima (2016)win vs Cynthia Calvillo (2017)win vs Maryna Moroz (2017)loss vs Randa Markos (2017)loss vs Tatiana Suarez (2018)loss vs Cláudia Gadelha (2018)win vs Alexa Grasso (2019)win vs Virna Jandiroba (2019)win vs Marina Rodriguez (2020)win vs Michelle Waterson (2020)win vs Yan Xiaonan (2021)loss vs Zhang Weili (2022)win vs Rose Namajunas (2022)loss vs Tecia Pennington (2024)
winlossdraw / NC2010–2024

Record

MMA record

19–8

27 bouts on record

Finish rate

42%

of wins ended inside the distance — strawweight MMA median 54%, 32nd percentile

KO/TKO: 4 (21%)Submission: 4 (21%)Decision: 11 (58%)
  • KO/TKO 21%
  • Submission 21%
  • Decision 58%

The career, bout by bout

30 recorded bouts from 2010 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

15y

2010–2024

Longest unbeaten run

6

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2010

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

30

28 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2024 L Tecia Pennington Decision3
2022 L Zhang Weili Submission2
2022 W Rose Namajunas Decision5
2021 W Yan Xiaonan KO/TKO2
2020 W Marina Rodriguez Decision3
2020 W Michelle Waterson Decision3
2019 W Alexa Grasso Decision3
2019 W Virna Jandiroba Decision3
2018 L Tatiana Suarez KO/TKO3
2018 L Cláudia Gadelha Decision3
2017 W Cynthia Calvillo Decision3
2017 W Maryna Moroz Decision3
2017 L Randa Markos Decision3
2016 W Juliana Lima Decision3
2015 L Joanna Jędrzejczyk KO/TKO2
2014 W Rose Namajunas Submission3
2014 W Jessica Penne Decision3
2013 W Bec Rawlings Decision5
2012 W Lynn Alvarez KO/TKO1
2012 W Sarah Schneider KO/TKO2
2011 W Felice Herrig Decision3
2011 L Jessica Aguilar Decision3
2011 W Yadira Anzaldua Submission1
2010 W Nina Ansaroff Decision3
2010 L Megumi Fujii Submission2
2010 W Lacey Schuckman Submission2
2010 W Karina Hallinan Submission2
2010 W Cassie Trost KO/TKO1
W Tecia Torres Decision5
W Angela Hill Submission3

22 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 71 strawweight 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: Carla Esparza on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-04-11. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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