Erik Paulson
11–4 · 16 recorded bouts · 1993–2007
Erik Paulson finished 91% of 11 wins inside the distance — the 75th percentile for light heavyweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1990s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Erik Paulson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
11–4
17 bouts on record
Finish rate
91%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 75th percentile
The career, bout by bout
16 recorded bouts from 1993 to 2007. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
1993–2007
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1995
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
16
16 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | W | Jeff Ford | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Ronald Jhun | Decision | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Masanori Suda | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1997 | L | Carlos Newton | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Paul Jones | Decision | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Stuart Harrison | Submission | 2 |
| 1996 | L | Matt Hume | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1996 | W | Kenji Kawaguchi | Submission | 3 |
| 1996 | W | Todd Bjornethun | Submission | 2 |
| 1995 | L | James Warring | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Sean McCully | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Yasunori Okuda | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Ben Spijkers | Submission | 5 |
| 1994 | W | Kenji Kawaguchi | Submission | 2 |
| 1993 | D | Naoki Sakurada | Draw | 5 |
| 1993 | W | Kazuhiro Kusayanagi | Submission | 3 |
4 of these opponents have their own page here.
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 183 light 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: Erik Paulson on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-19. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.