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Light heavyweight MMA · 2000s

Mike Swick

77″ reach · +5.5% reach advantage · 91st percentile

Mike Swick has a reach of 77″ against a height of 73″ — a reach advantage of +5.5%, exceptional for light heavyweight MMA and the 91st percentile of the 88 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+5.5%

77″ reach on a 73″ frame

Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.

-1.4%light heavyweight MMA reach advantage6.1%
Measurements
Reach77″ (195.6 cm)73rd pct
Height73″ (185.4 cm)40th pct
Stance
DivisionLight Heavyweight MMA
competed at 3: middleweight, welterweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last
Peak era2000s
CountryUnited States

Record

MMA record

15–6

21 bouts on record

Finish rate

73%

of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 38th percentile

KO/TKO: 8 (53%)Submission: 3 (20%)Decision: 4 (27%)
  • KO/TKO 53%
  • Submission 20%
  • Decision 27%

The career, bout by bout

22 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2000 2010 win vs Victor Bell (1998)win vs James Gabert (2002)win vs James Whitifield (2002)win vs Butch Bacon (2003)win vs Kengo Ura (2003)loss vs Chris Leben (2004)win vs Gideon Ray (2005)win vs Alex Schoenauer (2005)loss vs Stephan Bonnar (2005)win vs David Loiseau (2006)win vs Joe Riggs (2006)win vs Steve Vigneault (2006)loss vs Yushin Okami (2007)win vs Jonathan Goulet (2008)win vs Marcus Davis (2008)win vs Josh Burkman (2008)loss vs Dan Hardy (2009)win vs Ben Saunders (2009)loss vs Paulo Thiago (2010)loss vs Matt Brown (2012)win vs DaMarques Johnson (2012)loss vs Alex Garcia (2015)
winlossdraw / NC1998–2015

Career span

18y

1998–2015

Longest unbeaten run

5

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2005

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

22

22 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2015 L Alex Garcia Decision3
2012 L Matt Brown KO/TKO2
2012 W DaMarques Johnson KO/TKO2
2010 L Paulo Thiago Submission2
2009 L Dan Hardy Decision3
2009 W Ben Saunders KO/TKO2
2008 W Jonathan Goulet KO/TKO1
2008 W Marcus Davis Decision3
2008 W Josh Burkman Decision3
2007 L Yushin Okami Decision3
2006 W David Loiseau Decision3
2006 W Joe Riggs Submission1
2006 W Steve Vigneault Submission1
2005 W Gideon Ray KO/TKO1
2005 W Alex Schoenauer KO/TKO1
2005 L Stephan Bonnar Submission1
2004 L Chris Leben KO/TKO2
2003 W Butch Bacon KO/TKO1
2003 W Kengo Ura KO/TKO3
2002 W James Gabert Decision3
2002 W James Whitifield KO/TKO1
1998 W Victor Bell Submission1

15 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 88 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: Mike Swick on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-04-28. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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