Light Heavyweight MMA · 1990s
Ken Shamrock
72.8″ reach · -0.22% reach advantage · 7th percentile
Ken Shamrock has a reach of 72.8″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of -0.22%, which is unusually short for a light heavyweight MMA fighter and sits at the 7th percentile of the 181 in this dataset.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
-0.22%
72.8″ reach on a 73″ frame
Against 181 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Division median is 2.68%.
| Reach | 72.8″ (185 cm) | 13th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 40th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: heavyweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1990s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
28–17
47 bouts recorded
Finish rate
89%
of wins ended inside the distance — division median 78%, 74th percentile
| Method | Wins | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Knockout | 3 | 11% |
| Submission | 22 | 79% |
| Decision | 3 | 11% |
Closest in build
Light Heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Magomed Ankalaev 0% 75″ reach · 8th pct
- Junior dos Santos +1.35% 77″ reach · 30th pct
- Jeff Monson +2.85% 71″ reach · 60th pct
- Rich Franklin +4.1% 76″ reach · 70th pct
- Daniel Henderson +4.27% 74″ reach · 77th pct
- Israel Adesanya +5.28% 80″ reach · 83rd pct
- Alistair Overeem +5.28% 80″ reach · 83rd pct
- Chris Weidman +5.37% 78″ reach · 87th pct
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 181 light heavyweight MMA fighters in this dataset — not among everyone who has ever fought.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Ken Shamrock on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), infobox as of 2026-07-26. Percentiles computed here.