Melvin Manhoef
71″ reach · +4.4% reach advantage · 68th percentile
Melvin Manhoef has a reach of 71″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +4.4%, above average for heavyweight MMA and the 68th percentile of the 140 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.4%
71″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 3rd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 1st pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 5: welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Suriname |
Record
MMA record
32–17
50 bouts on record
Finish rate
91%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 61st percentile
The career, bout by bout
52 recorded bouts from 1995 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
28y
1995–2022
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
52
51 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | L | Igor Tanabe | Submission | 1 |
| 2022 | L | Yoel Romero | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Corey Anderson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Yannick Bahati | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Kent Kauppinen | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Rafael Carvalho | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2016 | L | Rafael Carvalho | Decision | 5 |
| 2015 | W | Hisaki Kato | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | N | Alexander Shlemenko | — | 2 |
| 2014 | L | Joe Schilling | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | W | Doug Marshall | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Evangelista Santos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Mamed Khalidov | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Brock Larson | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Denis Kang | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Ryo Kawamura | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Kim Jae-young | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | N | Yoshiyuki Nakanishi | — | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Tim Kennedy | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Tatsuya Mizuno | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Robbie Lawler | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Kazuo Misaki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Paulo Filho | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Mark Hunt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Gegard Mousasi | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Kim Dae-won | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Yosuke Nishijima | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Fábio Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Bernard Ackah | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Yoon Dong-sik | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Yoshiki Takahashi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Yoshihiro Akiyama | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Crosley Gracie | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ian Freeman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Shungo Oyama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Evangelista Santos | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Fabio Piamonte | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Paul Cahoon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Bob Schrijber | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Ladislav Zak | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Matthias Riccio | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Rodney Glunder | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Slavomir Molnar | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Alexandr Garkushenko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Bob Schrijber | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Mika Ilmén | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Paul Cahoon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Husein Cift | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Rodney Glunder | Draw | 2 |
| 1995 | W | Jordy Jonkers | KO/TKO | 2 |
| — | W | Shungo Oyama | KO/TKO | — |
31 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Melvin Manhoef competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 32 | 17 | 29 |
| Kickboxing | 38 | 15 | 27 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Pat Barry+4.27% 74″ reach · 67th pct
- Shawn Jordan+4.16% 75″ reach · 66th pct
- Shamil Gaziev+4.67% 78.5″ reach · 69th pct
- Da Woon Jung+4.67% 78.5″ reach · 69th pct
- Rodney Glunder+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
- Arjan Bhullar+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
- Trevor Prangley+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
- Maurício Rua+4.1% 76″ reach · 64th pct
How this is worked out
- Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- 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
Source: Melvin Manhoef on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-03. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.