James Thompson
20–17 · 36 recorded bouts · 2003–2017
James Thompson finished 90% of 20 wins inside the distance — the 59th 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 | not recorded | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for James Thompson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
20–17
37 bouts on record
Finish rate
90%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 59th percentile
The career, bout by bout
36 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2017. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2003–2017
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
36
36 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | L | Phil De Fries | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Tsuyoshi Kosaka | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | L | Bobby Lashley | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Eric Prindle | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Colin Robinson | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Bobby Lashley | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Bob Sapp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | N | Mariusz Pudzianowski | — | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Yusuke Kawaguchi | Decision | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Miodrag Petkovic | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Rob Broughton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Tengiz Tedoradze | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | L | Alistair Overeem | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Jim York | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Kimbo Slice | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Brett Rogers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Neil Grove | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Don Frye | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Butterbean | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Hidehiko Yoshida | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | John-Olav Einemo | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Rob Broughton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Kazuyuki Fujita | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Giant Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Alexandru Lungu | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Andy Costello | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Autimio Antonia | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Henry Armstrong Miller | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Nikolajus Cilkinas | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Alexander Emelianenko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Dan Severn | Decision | 5 |
| 2004 | L | Tengiz Tedoradze | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Aaron Marsa | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Marc Goddard | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Richie Cranny | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Will Elworthy | Submission | 1 |
20 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: James Thompson (fighter) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-05-22. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.