Jan Nortje
2–6 · 43 recorded bouts · 1998–2013
Jan Nortje finished 100% of 2 wins inside the distance — the 72nd 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 | 83.1″ (211 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | South Africa |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Jan Nortje, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
2–6
8 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
43 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
1998–2013
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
43
43 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Lechi Kurbanov | Decision | 4 |
| 2009 | L | Sokoudjou | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Bob Sapp | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Tom Erikson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Peter Aerts | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Bjorn Bregy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Gary Goodridge | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Dong Wook-Kim | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Mighty Mo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Julius Long | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Imani Lee | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Semmy Schilt | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Alexander Ustinov | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Tom Erikson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Mike Bernardo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Masayuki Naruse | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Shinsuke Nakamura | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Martin Holm | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Ivan Rudan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Alexey Ignashov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Evgeny Orlov | Decision | 5 |
| 2002 | W | Tadao Yasuda | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2002 | L | Ernesto Hoost | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Jörgen Kruth | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Gary Goodridge | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Sergei Matkin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Peter Graham | Decision | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Curtis McDorman | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | JC Hilliard | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Monthee Honore | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2000 | L | Jérôme Le Banner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Mario Sailor | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Ricky Peters | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Clinton Nortje | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Armstrong M'bete | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Matt Skelton | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 1999 | W | Egan Norman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Jacob Lolwane | Decision | 4 |
| 1999 | W | James Thompson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Mitsuya Nagai | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Matt Skelton | KO/TKO | 3 |
21 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Jan Nortje competed in 3, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Boxing | 11 | 0 | 10 |
| Kickboxing | 9 | 16 | 8 |
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: Jan Nortje on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-05-17. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.