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Heavyweight MMA · 2000s

Kestutis Smirnovas

23–8 · 33 recorded bouts · 2000–2014

Kestutis Smirnovas finished 74% of 23 wins inside the distance — the 29th 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
Height70″ (177.8 cm)
Stance
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Peak era2000s
CountryLithuania

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

2000 2010 loss vs Victor Yerohin (2000)loss vs Hirotaka Yokoi (2001)loss vs Mikhail Ilyukhin (2001)win vs Ruslan Mirzoev (2001)win vs Darius Jonyla (2002)win vs Vladimir Smantster (2002)win vs Takahiro Oba (2002)win vs Pavel Dolgov (2002)win vs Roman Sukoterin (2003)win vs Masaya Inoue (2003)win vs Kestutis Stankevicius (2003)win vs Mariusz Ligizynski (2003)loss vs Rodolfo Amaro da Silva (2004)loss vs Sam Nest (2004)win vs Romualds Garkulis (2004)win vs Petras Markevicius (2004)win vs Vidmantas Tatarunas (2004)win vs Grazhuydas Smailis (2004)win vs Egidijus Petrushkevicius (2004)win vs Grzegorz Jakubowski (2004)win vs Hiromitsu Miura (2005)win vs Grazhuydas Smailis (2005)win vs Thomas Valentin (2006)loss vs Yoshihiro Akiyama (2006)loss vs Kazushi Sakuraba (2006)win vs Tadeush Cholodinskij (2006)win vs Damba Radnaev (2007)win vs Vladimir Yushko (2007)loss vs Nobutatsu Suzuki (2007)draw vs Valentin Golubovskij (2007)win vs David Marcina (2008)win vs Mike Jonker (2013)win vs Grzegorz Lenart (2014)
winlossdraw / NC2000–2014

Record

MMA record

23–8

33 bouts on record

Finish rate

74%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 29th percentile

KO/TKO: 3 (13%)Submission: 14 (61%)Decision: 6 (26%)
  • KO/TKO 13%
  • Submission 61%
  • Decision 26%

The career, bout by bout

33 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

15y

2000–2014

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2004

8 bouts

Recorded bouts

33

33 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2014 W Grzegorz Lenart Submission1
2013 W Mike Jonker Submission1
2008 W David Marcina Submission1
2007 W Damba Radnaev Submission1
2007 W Vladimir Yushko Submission1
2007 L Nobutatsu Suzuki KO/TKO1
2007 D Valentin Golubovskij Draw3
2006 W Thomas Valentin KO/TKO1
2006 L Yoshihiro Akiyama KO/TKO1
2006 L Kazushi Sakuraba Submission1
2006 W Tadeush Cholodinskij Decision3
2005 W Hiromitsu Miura KO/TKO1
2005 W Grazhuydas Smailis Submission
2004 L Rodolfo Amaro da Silva KO/TKO2
2004 L Sam Nest Submission2
2004 W Romualds Garkulis Submission1
2004 W Petras Markevicius Submission1
2004 W Vidmantas Tatarunas Submission
2004 W Grazhuydas Smailis Submission2
2004 W Egidijus Petrushkevicius
2004 W Grzegorz Jakubowski Submission1
2003 W Roman Sukoterin Decision2
2003 W Masaya Inoue KO/TKO1
2003 W Kestutis Stankevicius Decision
2003 W Mariusz Ligizynski Submission1
2002 W Darius Jonyla Submission
2002 W Vladimir Smantster Submission1
2002 W Takahiro Oba Submission1
2002 W Pavel Dolgov Decision2
2001 L Hirotaka Yokoi Decision2
2001 L Mikhail Ilyukhin Submission1
2001 W Ruslan Mirzoev Decision1
2000 L Victor Yerohin Submission1

4 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: Kęstutis Smirnovas on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-01-05. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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