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Heavyweight MMA · 2000s

Márcio Cruz

7–3 · 11 recorded bouts · 2005–2012

Márcio Cruz finished 86% of 7 wins inside the distance — the 50th 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
Height76″ (193 cm)
Stance
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
competed at 2: light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last
Peak era2000s
CountryBrazil

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

2010 win vs Keigo Kunihara (2005)loss vs Andrei Arlovski (2006)loss vs Jeff Monson (2006)win vs Frank Mir (2006)win vs Rafael Cavalcante (2007)win vs Choi Mu-Bae (2008)win vs Tommy Sauer (2009)win vs Dan Christison (2009)win vs David Yost (2010)loss vs Glover Teixeira (2011)win vs Joe Yager (2012)
winlossdraw / NC2005–2012

Record

MMA record

7–3

10 bouts on record

Finish rate

86%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 50th percentile

KO/TKO: 2 (29%)Submission: 4 (57%)Decision: 1 (14%)
  • KO/TKO 29%
  • Submission 57%
  • Decision 14%

The career, bout by bout

11 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

8y

2005–2012

Longest unbeaten run

6

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2006

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

11

11 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2012 W Joe Yager Submission2
2011 L Glover Teixeira KO/TKO2
2010 W David Yost Submission1
2009 W Tommy Sauer KO/TKO2
2009 W Dan Christison Decision3
2008 W Choi Mu-Bae Submission1
2007 W Rafael Cavalcante DQ3
2006 L Andrei Arlovski KO/TKO1
2006 L Jeff Monson Decision3
2006 W Frank Mir KO/TKO1
2005 W Keigo Kunihara Submission2

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 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: Márcio Cruz on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-06-02. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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