Rafael Carvalho
17–9 · 26 recorded bouts · 2011–2025
Rafael Carvalho finished 71% of 17 wins inside the distance — the 32nd 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 | 75″ (190.5 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 Rafael Carvalho, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
17–9
26 bouts on record
Finish rate
71%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 32nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
26 recorded bouts from 2011 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2011–2025
Longest unbeaten run
15
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2012
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
26
26 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L | Sergey Romanov | Submission | 2 |
| 2024 | L | Mariusz Książkiewicz | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2023 | W | Marcelo Alfaya | Decision | 5 |
| 2022 | L | Dovletdzhan Yagshimuradov | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2021 | L | Lorenz Larkin | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Alex Polizzi | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | L | Vadim Nemkov | Submission | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Chidi Njokuani | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Lyoto Machida | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Gegard Mousasi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Alessio Sakara | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Melvin Manhoef | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2016 | W | Melvin Manhoef | Decision | 5 |
| 2015 | W | Brandon Halsey | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Joe Schilling | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Brian Rogers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Mauri Roque | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Sergio Souza | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Gustavo Machado | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Fernando Scherek | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Kaue Dudus | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Eduardo Gimenez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Luiz Cado Simon | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Glauber Valadares | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Flavio Rodrigo Magon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Julio Cesar Araujo Fernandes | Submission | 1 |
12 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: Rafael Carvalho on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-03-17. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.