Paulo Costa
16–4 · 22 recorded bouts · 2012–2026
Paulo Costa finished 81% of 16 wins inside the distance — the 54th 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 | 72″ (182.9 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2010s | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Paulo Costa, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
16–4
20 bouts on record
Finish rate
81%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 54th percentile
The career, bout by bout
22 recorded bouts from 2012 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2012–2026
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2017
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
22
21 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W | Azamat Murzakanov | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Roman Kopylov | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | L | Sean Strickland | Decision | 5 |
| 2024 | L | Robert Whittaker | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Luke Rockhold | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Marvin Vettori | Decision | 5 |
| 2020 | L | Israel Adesanya | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Yoel Romero | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Uriah Hall | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Johny Hendricks | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Oluwale Bamgbose | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Garreth McLellan | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Adriano Balby de Araujo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Eduardo Ramón | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Bruno Assis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Wagner Silva Gomes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Gérson da Conceição | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Márcio Alexandre Jr. | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Fábio Moreira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Ademilson Borges | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Téo Esteves | KO/TKO | 1 |
| — | W | José Roberto | Submission | — |
11 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: Paulo Costa on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-21. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.