Niklas Bäckström
11–4 · 18 recorded bouts · 2007–2022
Niklas Bäckström finished 73% of 11 wins inside the distance — the 56th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 72″ (182.9 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 2: featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2010s | |
| Country | Sweden |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Niklas Bäckström, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
11–4
15 bouts on record
Finish rate
73%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 56th percentile
The career, bout by bout
18 recorded bouts from 2007 to 2022. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
2007–2022
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2014
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
18
18 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | L | Sebastian Rajewski | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Andrew Fisher | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Joni Salovaara | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Danijel Kokora | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Georgi Stoyanov | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Noad Lahat | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Mike Wilkinson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Tom Niinimaki | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Max Coga | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Jaakko Vayrynen | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Thomas Hytten | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Sergej Grecicho | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Adam Edwards | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | N | Elias Kunnas | — | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Simon Sköld | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Gabriel Mboge Nesje | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Jonas Forssell | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Victor Garabedian | Submission | 1 |
3 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 304 lightweight 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: Niklas Bäckström (fighter) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-01-06. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.