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Light heavyweight MMA · 1980s

Maurice Smith

10–10 · 28 recorded bouts · 1989–2013

Maurice Smith finished 100% of 10 wins inside the distance — the 87th percentile for light heavyweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height74″ (188 cm)
Stance
DivisionLight Heavyweight MMA
inferred from the listed weight, not stated as a class
Peak era1980s
CountryUnited States

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

1990 2000 2010 win vs Minoru Suzuki (1989)loss vs James Broad (1991)loss vs Ken Merritt (1992)loss vs Ken Shamrock (1994)loss vs Minoru Suzuki (1994)loss vs Bas Rutten (1995)win vs Marcus Silveira (1996)loss vs Kiyoshi Tamura (1996)loss vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (1996)loss vs Randy Couture (1997)win vs Tank Abbott (1997)win vs Mark Coleman (1997)win vs Kazunari Murakami (1997)loss vs Akira Maeda (1997)loss vs Renzo Gracie (1999)win vs Branden Lee Hinkle (1999)loss vs Marcus Silveira (1999)win vs Branko Cikatic (1999)win vs Marco Ruas (1999)loss vs Kevin Randleman (1999)loss vs Renato Sobral (2000)win vs Bobby Hoffman (2000)win vs Marco Ruas (2007)loss vs Hidehiko Yoshida (2008)win vs Rick Roufus (2008)win vs Jorge Cordoba (2012)loss vs Matt Kovacs (2013)
winlossdraw / NC1989–2013

Record

MMA record

10–10

20 bouts on record

Finish rate

100%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 87th percentile

KO/TKO: 8 (80%)Submission: 2 (20%)
  • KO/TKO 80%
  • Submission 20%

The career, bout by bout

28 recorded bouts from 1989 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

25y

1989–2013

Longest unbeaten run

3

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1999

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

28

27 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2013 L Matt Kovacs Decision3
2012 W Jorge Cordoba KO/TKO3
2008 L Hidehiko Yoshida Submission1
2008 W Rick Roufus Submission1
2007 W Marco Ruas KO/TKO4
2000 L Renato Sobral Decision3
2000 W Bobby Hoffman Decision3
1999 L Renzo Gracie Submission1
1999 W Branden Lee Hinkle Decision2
1999 L Marcus Silveira Submission2
1999 W Branko Cikatic Submission1
1999 W Marco Ruas KO/TKO1
1999 L Kevin Randleman Decision1
1997 L Randy Couture Decision1
1997 W Tank Abbott KO/TKO1
1997 W Mark Coleman Decision1
1997 W Kazunari Murakami KO/TKO1
1997 L Akira Maeda Submission1
1996 W Marcus Silveira KO/TKO3
1996 L Kiyoshi Tamura Submission1
1996 L Tsuyoshi Kohsaka Submission1
1995 L Bas Rutten Submission1
1994 L Ken Shamrock Submission1
1994 L Minoru Suzuki Submission3
1992 L Ken Merritt 2
1991 L James Broad KO/TKO4
1989 W Minoru Suzuki KO/TKO4
W Takaku Fuke KO/TKO

22 of these opponents have their own page here.

Records in more than one sport

Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Maurice Smith competed in 2, so the records sit together here.

DisciplineWonLostBy KO
MMA10108
Kickboxing5313

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 183 light 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: Maurice Smith (fighter) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-28. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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