Giva Santana
18–3 · 21 recorded bouts · 2005–2013
Giva Santana finished 94% of 18 wins inside the distance — the 86th percentile for middleweight 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 | Middleweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 1990s | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Giva Santana, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
18–3
21 bouts on record
Finish rate
94%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 86th percentile
The career, bout by bout
21 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
2005–2013
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
21
21 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Jason Butcher | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Brendan Sequin | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | L | Bruno Santos | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Darryl Cobb | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Doug Marshall | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Anthony Ruiz | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Lodune Sincaid | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Radmir Gabdullin | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Min Suk Heo | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Jaime Jara | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Matt Lucas | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Jaime Fletcher | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Aram Ghukasyan | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Chris Ledwidge | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Michele Verginelli | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Boris Jonstomp | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Mavrick Harvey | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Jun Soo Lim | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Edwin Aguilar | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Zamirbek Syrgabayev | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Noriki Miyashita | Decision | 1 |
3 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 244 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: Giva Santana on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-11-25. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.