Hans Nijman
72.5″ reach · +0.71% reach advantage · 18th percentile
Hans Nijman has a reach of 72.5″ against a height of 72″ — a reach advantage of +0.71%, unusually short for heavyweight MMA and the 18th percentile of the 140 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+0.71%
72.5″ reach on a 72″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 72.5″ (184.2 cm) | 7th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 11th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 1980s | |
| Country | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Record
MMA record
8–6
14 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
16 recorded bouts from 1995 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1995–2013
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1995
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
16
16 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Minoru Suzuki | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Cheick Kongo | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Barrington Patterson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Kazuyuki Fujita | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Danny Higgins | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Hiromitsu Kanehara | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Vladimir Klementiev | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Victor Kruger | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Kiyoshi Tamura | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Lee Hasdell | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Tariel Bitsadze | — | — |
| 1996 | W | Allen Harris | Submission | 2 |
| 1996 | W | Volk Han | KO/TKO | — |
| 1995 | W | Ramaji Buzoriashivilli | — | — |
| 1995 | W | Andrei Kopylov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | KO/TKO | 1 |
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Liu Ce+0.51% 77.6″ reach · 17th pct
- Anderson Braddock+0.94% 75.7″ reach · 19th pct
- Antonio Plazibat+1.03% 77.2″ reach · 19th pct
- Ben Edwards+1.05% 76″ reach · 20th pct
- Don Frye+0.22% 73″ reach · 16th pct
- Alexander Volkov+1.25% 80″ reach · 21st pct
- Tom Aspinall+1.28% 78″ reach · 21st pct
- Logan Clark+1.33% 75″ reach · 22nd 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 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: Hans Nijman on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-10-03. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.