Murilo Bustamante
15–8 · 24 recorded bouts · 1991–2012
Murilo Bustamante finished 73% of 15 wins inside the distance — the 38th 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
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1990s | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Murilo Bustamante, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
15–8
24 bouts on record
Finish rate
73%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 38th percentile
The career, bout by bout
24 recorded bouts from 1991 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
1991–2012
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1996
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
24
24 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | W | Dave Menne | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Jesse Taylor | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Makoto Takimoto | Decision | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Ryuta Sakurai | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Dong Sik Yoon | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Amar Suloev | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Dan Henderson | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Ikuhisa Minowa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Masanori Suda | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ryuta Sakurai | Decision | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Kazuhiro Nakamura | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Dan Henderson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Quinton Jackson | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Matt Lindland | Submission | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Dave Menne | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Chuck Liddell | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Sanae Kikuta | Decision | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Yoji Anjo | Submission | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Jerry Bohlander | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | D | Tom Erikson | Draw | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Juan Mott | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Chris Haseman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Joe Charles | Submission | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Marcelo Mendes | KO/TKO | 1 |
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
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 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
Source: Murilo Bustamante on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-12. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.