Murilo Rua
20–13 · 35 recorded bouts · 2000–2012
Murilo Rua finished 90% of 20 wins inside the distance — the 59th 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
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Murilo Rua, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
20–13
34 bouts on record
Finish rate
90%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 59th percentile
The career, bout by bout
35 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
2000–2012
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
35
34 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | L | Paulo Filho | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Tom Watson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Roy Boughton | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Jeremy May | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Arturo Arcemendes | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Jason Jones | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Alex Stiebling | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Riki Fukuda | Decision | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Benji Radach | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Tony Bonello | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Xavier Foupa-Pokam | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Robbie Lawler | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Joey Villaseñor | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Alex Reid | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Mark Weir | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Denis Kang | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Paulo Filho | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Murad Chunkaiev | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Quinton Jackson | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Sergei Kharitonov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Alexander Otsuka | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Akira Shoji | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Kevin Randleman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Ricardo Arona | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Mario Sperry | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Alex Andrade | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Dan Henderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Daijiro Matsui | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Rogerio Sagate | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | D | Akihiro Gono | Draw | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Leopoldo Serao | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Luiz Claudio das Dores | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Israel Albuquerque | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Adriano Verdelli | Submission | 1 |
| — | L | Dan Henderson | — | — |
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 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
Source: Murilo Rua on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-06-20. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.