Don Frye
73″ reach · +0.22% reach advantage · 16th percentile
Don Frye has a reach of 73″ against a height of 72.8″ — a reach advantage of +0.22%, unusually short for heavyweight MMA and the 16th percentile of the 140 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+0.22%
73″ reach on a 72.8″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 8th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72.8″ (185 cm) | 20th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1990s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
19–9
29 bouts on record
Finish rate
95%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 68th percentile
The career, bout by bout
36 recorded bouts from 1989 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
23y
1989–2011
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1996
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
36
31 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | L | Ruben Villareal | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Dave Herman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Ritch Moss | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Ikuhisa Minowa | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Bryan Pardoe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | James Thompson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Kim Min-Soo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | D | Ruben Villareal | Draw | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Akebono | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Yoshihiro Nakao | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Gary Goodridge | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Mark Coleman | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Hidehiko Yoshida | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Yoshihiro Takayama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Ken Shamrock | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Cyril Abidi | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Gilbert Yvel | DQ | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Eric Valdez | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Tank Abbott | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Mark Hall | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Mark Coleman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Amaury Bitetti | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Gary Goodridge | Submission | 1 |
| 1990 | L | David Kilgour | — | 4 |
| 1990 | L | Leon Carter | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1990 | D | Fred Heath | Draw | 4 |
| 1990 | L | David Dixon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | L | Rocky Pepeli | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1989 | W | Troy Baudoin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Luis Mora | — | 1 |
| — | W | Mark Hall | Submission | — |
| — | W | Gary Goodridge | Submission | — |
| — | W | Brian Johnston | Submission | — |
| — | W | Sam Adkins | KO/TKO | — |
| — | W | Thomas Ramirez | KO/TKO | — |
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Don Frye competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 19 | 9 | 8 |
| Boxing | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
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 140 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
Source: Don Frye on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-26. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.