Jake Shields
33–11 · 45 recorded bouts · 1999–2018
Jake Shields finished 45% of 33 wins inside the distance — the 7th 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 | 72″ (182.9 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 2: welterweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Jake Shields, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
33–11
45 bouts on record
Finish rate
45%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 7th percentile
The career, bout by bout
45 recorded bouts from 1999 to 2018. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
20y
1999–2018
Longest unbeaten run
16
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
45
45 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | L | Ray Cooper III | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Herman Terrado | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Danny Davis Jr. | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Jon Fitch | Decision | 5 |
| 2015 | L | Rousimar Palhares | Submission | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Brian Foster | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Ryan Ford | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Héctor Lombard | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Demian Maia | Decision | 5 |
| 2013 | W | Tyron Woodley | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | N | Ed Herman | — | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Yoshihiro Akiyama | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Jake Ellenberger | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Georges St-Pierre | Decision | 5 |
| 2010 | W | Martin Kampmann | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Dan Henderson | Decision | 5 |
| 2009 | W | Jason Miller | Decision | 5 |
| 2009 | W | Robbie Lawler | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Paul Daley | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Nick Thompson | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Mike Pyle | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Renato Verissimo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Ido Pariente | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Ray Steinbeiss | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Steve Berger | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Carlos Condit | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Yushin Okami | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Dave Menne | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Toby Imada | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Akira Kikuchi | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Ray Cooper Jr. | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | D | Kazuo Misaki | Draw | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Akira Kikuchi | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Milton Vieira | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Hayato Sakurai | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Ray Cooper Jr. | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Robert Ferguson | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Jeremy Jackson | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Tracy Hess | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Randy Velarde | Submission | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Phillip Miller | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Shannon Ritch | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Marty Armendarez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Brian Warren | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Paul Harrison | KO/TKO | 1 |
28 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: Jake Shields on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-11. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.