Junior Tafa
72″ reach · -3.99% reach advantage · 1st percentile
Junior Tafa has a reach of 72″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of -3.99%, unusually short for heavyweight MMA and the 1st percentile of the 140 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-3.99%
72″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 3rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 48th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2020s | |
| Country | New Zealand |
Record
MMA record
7–6
13 bouts on record
Finish rate
100%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
15 recorded bouts from 2017 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
2017–2026
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2022
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
15
15 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | L | Iwo Baraniewski | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2026 | W | Kevin Christian | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2026 | L | Billy Elekana | Submission | 2 |
| 2025 | L | Tuco Tokkos | Submission | 2 |
| 2024 | W | Sean Sharaf | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2024 | L | Valter Walker | Submission | 1 |
| 2024 | L | Marcos Rogério de Lima | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2023 | W | Parker Porter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2023 | L | Mohammed Usman | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Tsuyoshi Sudario | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | W | Nicolas Djurdjević | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | W | Kelvin Fitial | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2022 | W | Taisei Sekino | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | W | David Tuliloa | — | 3 |
| 2017 | D | Jayden Joseph | Draw | 4 |
5 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Junior Tafa competed in 3, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| Boxing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kickboxing | 23 | 5 | 19 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Yaozong Hu-3.99% 72″ reach · 1st pct
- Ewerton Teixeira-4.92% 70″ reach · 0th pct
- Branko Cikatić-1.9% 73″ reach · 2nd pct
- Kazuhiro Nakamura 中村和裕-1.39% 70″ reach · 3rd pct
- Mirko Cro Cop-1.38% 73″ reach · 4th pct
- Anthony Hamilton-1.33% 76″ reach · 4th pct
- Rico Verhoeven-0.2% 77″ reach · 5th pct
- Artur Szpilka0% 76″ reach · 6th pct
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 140 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: Junior Tafa on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-23. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.