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Heavyweight MMA · 2010s

Justin Willis

79″ reach · +8.25% reach advantage · 95th percentile

Justin Willis has a reach of 79″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +8.25%, exceptional for heavyweight MMA and the 95th percentile of the 140 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+8.25%

79″ reach on a 73″ frame

Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.

-4%heavyweight MMA reach advantage9.9%
Measurements
Reach79″ (200.7 cm)67th pct
Height73″ (185.4 cm)21st pct
StanceSouthpaw
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
Peak era2010s
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

8–2

10 bouts on record

Finish rate

50%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 5th percentile

KO/TKO: 4 (50%)Decision: 4 (50%)
  • KO/TKO 50%
  • Decision 50%

The career, bout by bout

11 recorded bouts from 2012 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2020 loss vs Henry Solis (2012)win vs Yusuke Kawaguchi (2014)win vs James Kirby (2014)win vs Rizvan Kuniev (2015)win vs Julian Coutinho (2016)win vs Allen Crowder (2017)win vs James Mulheron (2017)win vs Mark Hunt (2018)win vs Chase Sherman (2018)loss vs Curtis Blaydes (2019)win vs Denis Goltsov (2021)
winlossdraw / NC2012–2021

Career span

10y

2012–2021

Longest unbeaten run

8

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2014

2 bouts

Recorded bouts

11

11 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2021 W Denis Goltsov
2019 L Curtis Blaydes Decision3
2018 W Mark Hunt Decision3
2018 W Chase Sherman Decision3
2017 W Allen Crowder KO/TKO1
2017 W James Mulheron Decision3
2016 W Julian Coutinho KO/TKO2
2015 W Rizvan Kuniev Decision2
2014 W Yusuke Kawaguchi KO/TKO1
2014 W James Kirby KO/TKO1
2012 L Henry Solis KO/TKO2

6 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 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

Full methodology →

Source: Justin Willis on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-05-15. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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