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Welterweight MMA · 2000s

Paulo Thiago

19–11 · 30 recorded bouts · 2005–2019

Paulo Thiago finished 63% of 19 wins inside the distance — the 32nd percentile for welterweight MMA, where the median is 73%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height71″ (180.3 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionWelterweight MMA
competed at 2: middleweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Peak era2000s
CountryBrazil

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Paulo Thiago, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2010 win vs Ricardo Petrucio (2005)win vs Igor Maux (2006)win vs Fernando Bettega (2007)win vs Franklin Careli (2007)win vs Luiz Dutra Jr. (2008)win vs Ferrid Kheder (2008)win vs Paulo Cavera (2008)win vs Leonardo Pecanha (2008)win vs Jacob Volkmann (2009)loss vs Jon Fitch (2009)win vs Josh Koscheck (2009)loss vs Diego Sanchez (2010)loss vs Martin Kampmann (2010)win vs Mike Swick (2010)win vs David Mitchell (2011)loss vs Dong Hyun Kim (2012)loss vs Siyar Bahadurzada (2012)loss vs Brandon Thatch (2013)win vs Michel Prazeres (2013)loss vs Sean Spencer (2014)loss vs Gasan Umalatov (2014)win vs Cheick Kone (2016)win vs Paulistenio Rocha (2016)loss vs Markus Perez Echeimberg (2016)loss vs Michał Materla (2017)win vs Faycal Hucin (2017)loss vs Sam Liera (2019)win vs Alton Barbosa (2019)
winlossdraw / NC2005–2019

Record

MMA record

19–11

30 bouts on record

Finish rate

63%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 32nd percentile

KO/TKO: 2 (11%)Submission: 10 (53%)Decision: 7 (37%)
  • KO/TKO 11%
  • Submission 53%
  • Decision 37%

The career, bout by bout

30 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2019. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

15y

2005–2019

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2008

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

30

28 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2019 L Sam Liera KO/TKO1
2019 W Alton Barbosa Decision3
2017 L Michał Materla KO/TKO2
2017 W Faycal Hucin Submission1
2016 W Cheick Kone Submission3
2016 W Paulistenio Rocha Decision3
2016 L Markus Perez Echeimberg Decision5
2014 L Sean Spencer Decision3
2014 L Gasan Umalatov Decision3
2013 L Brandon Thatch Submission1
2013 W Michel Prazeres Decision3
2012 L Dong Hyun Kim Decision3
2012 L Siyar Bahadurzada KO/TKO1
2011 W David Mitchell Decision3
2010 L Diego Sanchez Decision3
2010 L Martin Kampmann Decision3
2010 W Mike Swick Submission2
2009 W Jacob Volkmann Decision3
2009 L Jon Fitch Decision3
2009 W Josh Koscheck KO/TKO1
2008 W Luiz Dutra Jr. KO/TKO1
2008 W Ferrid Kheder Decision3
2008 W Paulo Cavera Submission1
2008 W Leonardo Pecanha Decision3
2007 W Fernando Bettega Submission1
2007 W Franklin Careli Submission2
2006 W Igor Maux Submission1
2005 W Ricardo Petrucio Submission3
W Diogo Almeida Submission
W Marcone Bezerra Submission

13 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 299 welterweight 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: Paulo Thiago on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-09-12. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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