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Evan Tanner

74″ reach · +2.79% reach advantage · 43rd percentile

Evan Tanner has a reach of 74″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +2.79%, short for heavyweight MMA and the 43rd percentile of the 140 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+2.79%

74″ reach on a 72″ frame

Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.

-4%heavyweight MMA reach advantage9.9%
Measurements
Reach74″ (188 cm)13th pct
Height72″ (182.9 cm)11th pct
Stance
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Peak era1990s
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

32–8

40 bouts on record

Finish rate

91%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 61st percentile

KO/TKO: 12 (38%)Submission: 17 (53%)Decision: 3 (9%)
  • KO/TKO 38%
  • Submission 53%
  • Decision 9%

The career, bout by bout

39 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2008. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2000 loss vs Heath Herring (1997)win vs Paul Buentello (1997)win vs Ryushi Yanagisawa (1998)win vs Gene Lydick (1998)win vs Kiuma Kunioku (1998)win vs Justin McCully (1998)win vs Kousei Kubota (1998)win vs Tony Castillo (1998)win vs Dennis Reed (1998)win vs Rusty Totty (1998)win vs Vinny Nixon (1999)loss vs Leon Dijk (1999)win vs Mike Cizek (1999)win vs Valeri Ignatov (1999)win vs Darrel Gholar (1999)win vs Lance Gibson (2000)win vs Travis Fulton (2000)win vs Raoul Romero (2000)win vs Homer Moore (2001)loss vs Tito Ortiz (2001)win vs Chris Haseman (2002)win vs Elvis Sinosic (2002)win vs Phil Baroni (2003)loss vs Rich Franklin (2003)win vs Shannon Ritch (2003)win vs Robbie Lawler (2004)win vs Phil Baroni (2004)loss vs David Loiseau (2005)loss vs Rich Franklin (2005)win vs David Terrell (2005)win vs Justin Levens (2006)loss vs Kendall Grove (2008)loss vs Yushin Okami (2008)
winlossdraw / NC1997–2008

Career span

12y

1997–2008

Longest unbeaten run

10

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1998

8 bouts

Recorded bouts

39

33 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2008 L Kendall Grove Decision3
2008 L Yushin Okami KO/TKO2
2006 W Justin Levens Submission1
2005 L David Loiseau KO/TKO2
2005 L Rich Franklin KO/TKO4
2005 W David Terrell KO/TKO1
2004 W Robbie Lawler Submission1
2004 W Phil Baroni Decision3
2003 W Phil Baroni KO/TKO1
2003 L Rich Franklin KO/TKO1
2003 W Shannon Ritch Submission1
2002 W Chris Haseman Decision3
2002 W Elvis Sinosic KO/TKO1
2001 W Homer Moore Submission2
2001 L Tito Ortiz KO/TKO1
2000 W Lance Gibson KO/TKO1
2000 W Travis Fulton Submission1
2000 W Raoul Romero KO/TKO1
1999 W Vinny Nixon Submission1
1999 L Leon Dijk KO/TKO1
1999 W Mike Cizek Submission1
1999 W Valeri Ignatov KO/TKO1
1999 W Darrel Gholar Submission1
1998 W Ryushi Yanagisawa Submission1
1998 W Gene Lydick Submission1
1998 W Kiuma Kunioku Decision1
1998 W Justin McCully Submission1
1998 W Kousei Kubota Submission1
1998 W Tony Castillo KO/TKO1
1998 W Dennis Reed Submission1
1998 W Rusty Totty Submission1
1997 L Heath Herring Submission1
1997 W Paul Buentello Submission1
W Ikuhisa Minowa Submission
W Wade Kroeze KO/TKO
W Jesse Gonzalez Submission
W Joe Frailey Submission
W Gary Nabors Submission
W Mike Kennedy Submission

21 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 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

Full methodology →

Source: Evan Tanner on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-06-03. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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