Denis Kang
77″ reach · +8.49% reach advantage · 93rd percentile
Denis Kang has a reach of 77″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of +8.49%, exceptional for middleweight MMA and the 93rd percentile of the 139 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+8.49%
77″ reach on a 71″ frame
Compared against 139 middleweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 77″ (195.6 cm) | 77th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 25th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 3: heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Canada |
Record
MMA record
35–16
53 bouts on record
Finish rate
83%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 66th percentile
The career, bout by bout
57 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1998–2012
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2004
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
57
54 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | L | Melvin Manhoef | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Hae Suk Son | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Shungo Oyama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Seung Bae Whi | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Jesse Taylor | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Eun Soo Lee | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | D | Paulo Filho | Draw | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Dae Won Kim | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Michael Bisping | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Xavier Foupa-Pokam | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Alan Belcher | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Marvin Eastman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Jae Young Kim | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Gegard Mousasi | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Yoshihiro Akiyama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Jung Gyu Choi | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Kazuo Misaki | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Akihiro Gono | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Amar Suloev | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Murilo Rua | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Albert Basconcelles | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Mark Weir | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ron Fields | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | N | Robert Villegas | — | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Andrei Semenov | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Takahiro Oba | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Alexei Vezelozorov | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Jin Ho Yang | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Jae Young Kim | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Junpei Hamada | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Kobus Huisamen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Hyun Chul Cho | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Hyung Jun Kim | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Kaoklai Kaennorsing | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | D | Andrei Semenov | Draw | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Stephan Potvin | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Kaipo Kalama | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Brendan Seguin | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Keith Rockel | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Chris Peak | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Jason Miller | Submission | 2 |
| 2002 | L | Joe Doerksen | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Pat Healy | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Shane Biever | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | N | Dennis Hallman | — | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Marty Armendarez | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Osami Shibuya | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Keiichiro Yamamiya | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Minoru Suzuki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Lonnie Canida | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Joe Slick | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Jacen Flynn | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Fadi Habib | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Eric Harcrow | Submission | 1 |
| — | W | Hae Suk Son | KO/TKO | — |
| — | W | Tom Bolger | Submission | — |
| — | L | Reese Andy | Decision | — |
21 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Denis Kang competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 35 | 16 | 15 |
| Kickboxing | 0 | 1 | — |
Closest in build
middleweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Phil Hawes+8.49% 77″ reach · 93rd pct
- Renzo Gracie+8.55% 76″ reach · 94th pct
- Jordan Johnson+8.25% 79″ reach · 92nd pct
- Marvin Eastman+8.86% 75″ reach · 95th pct
- Aleksei Oleinik+8.09% 80″ reach · 91st pct
- Kevin Holland+7.98% 81″ reach · 91st pct
- Rustam Khabilov+7.56% 72.8″ reach · 90th pct
- Jamie Pickett+9.6% 80″ reach · 96th pct
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 139 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: Denis Kang on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-02-27. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.