Heath Herring
27–16 · 44 recorded bouts · 1997–2017
Heath Herring finished 85% of 27 wins inside the distance — the 50th percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Heath Herring, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
27–16
43 bouts on record
Finish rate
85%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 50th percentile
The career, bout by bout
44 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2017. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
21y
1997–2017
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1999
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
44
37 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | L | Satoshi Ishii | Decision | 2 |
| 2016 | L | Amir Aliakbari | Decision | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Brock Lesnar | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Cheick Kongo | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Brad Imes | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Jake O'Brien | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Gary Goodridge | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | N | Yoshihiro Nakao | — | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Sam Greco | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Hirotaka Yokoi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Kazuo Takahashi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Gan McGee | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Paulo Cesar Silva | Submission | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | Submission | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Fedor Emelianenko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Yuriy Kochkine | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Igor Vovchanchyn | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Mark Kerr | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Vitor Belfort | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Denis Sobolev | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Enson Inoue | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Tom Erikson | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Willie Peeters | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Ramazan Mezhidov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Rene Rooze | DQ | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Bob Schrijber | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Bobby Hoffman | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | L | Alexandre Ferreira | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Gabe Beauperthy | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Travis Fulton | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Phil Deason | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Evan Tanner | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Chris Guillen | Submission | 1 |
| — | W | Sean McCully | Submission | — |
| — | W | Michael Tielrooy | Submission | — |
| — | W | Rocky Batastini | Submission | — |
| — | W | Kavkaz Soultanmagomedov | Submission | — |
| — | W | Erwin van den Steen | Submission | — |
| — | W | Hoss Carter | Submission | — |
| — | W | Nik Bickle | Submission | — |
25 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 324 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: Heath Herring on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-03-10. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.