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Heavyweight MMA · 1980s

Joe Charles

6–13 · 19 recorded bouts · 1994–2000

Joe Charles finished 83% of 6 wins inside the distance — the 45th 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

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height73″ (185.4 cm)
Stance
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
Peak era1980s
CountryUnited States

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Joe Charles, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2000 win vs Kevin Rosier (1994)win vs Scott Bessac (1995)loss vs Carl Franks (1995)loss vs Dan Severn (1995)loss vs Pete Williams (1996)win vs Wes Gassaway (1996)loss vs Oleg Taktarov (1996)loss vs Murilo Bustamante (1996)loss vs Vitor Belfort (1997)loss vs Nick Nutter (1997)win vs Yuri Mildzikhov (1997)win vs Andrey Surikov (1997)loss vs Karimula Barkalaev (1997)loss vs Dan Bobish (1997)loss vs Marcelo Tigre (1999)win vs Mark Smith (1999)loss vs Stefanos Miltsakakis (1999)loss vs Mikhail Avetisyan (1999)loss vs Kengo Watanabe (2000)
winlossdraw / NC1994–2000

Record

MMA record

6–13

19 bouts on record

Finish rate

83%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 45th percentile

KO/TKO: 2 (33%)Submission: 3 (50%)Decision: 1 (17%)
  • KO/TKO 33%
  • Submission 50%
  • Decision 17%

The career, bout by bout

19 recorded bouts from 1994 to 2000. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

7y

1994–2000

Longest unbeaten run

2

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1997

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

19

19 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2000 L Kengo Watanabe Decision1
1999 L Marcelo Tigre Submission1
1999 W Mark Smith Decision0
1999 L Stefanos Miltsakakis Submission1
1999 L Mikhail Avetisyan Submission1
1997 L Vitor Belfort Submission1
1997 L Nick Nutter Submission1
1997 W Yuri Mildzikhov Submission1
1997 W Andrey Surikov Submission1
1997 L Karimula Barkalaev Submission1
1997 L Dan Bobish Submission1
1996 L Pete Williams Submission1
1996 W Wes Gassaway Submission1
1996 L Oleg Taktarov Submission1
1996 L Murilo Bustamante Submission1
1995 W Scott Bessac Submission1
1995 L Carl Franks Submission1
1995 L Dan Severn Submission1
1994 W Kevin Rosier Submission1

7 of these opponents have their own page here.

How this is worked out

  1. Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. 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

Full methodology →

Source: Joe Charles on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-02-24. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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