Lightweight MMA · 2010s
Justin Gaethje
70″ reach · -1.39% reach advantage · 6th percentile
Justin Gaethje has a reach of 70″ against a height of 71″ — a reach advantage of -1.39%, which is unusually short for a lightweight MMA fighter and sits at the 6th percentile of the 297 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-1.39%
70″ reach on a 71″ frame
Against 297 lightweight MMA fighters. Division median is 2.83%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 27th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 76th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2010s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
28–5
33 bouts recorded
Finish rate
79%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 69%, 68th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Knockout | 21 | 75% |
| Submission | 1 | 4% |
| Decision | 6 | 21% |
Closest in build
Lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
How this is worked out
- Reach and height are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox and normalised to centimetres.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height, expressed as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- The percentile is that figure's rank among the 297 lightweight MMA fighters in this dataset — not among everyone who has ever fought.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Justin Gaethje on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-29. Percentiles computed here.