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Heavyweight MMA · 2000s

Rick Cheek

4–4 · 31 recorded bouts · 2004–2012

Rick Cheek finished 100% of 4 wins inside the distance — the 72nd 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

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height76″ (193 cm)
Stance
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
Peak era2000s
CountryUnited States

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

2010 win vs align=left| Brian Wells (2004)win vs align=left| Bernard Settle, Jr. (2004)win vs align=left| Matt Dunn (2004)win vs align=left| Mike Sheppard (2005)win vs align=left| Ben Davis (2005)win vs Dave Huckaba (2006)win vs align=left| Mahmoud Fowzi (2006)loss vs Chase Gormley (2007)win vs Thomas Rosser (2007)win vs Joe Abouata (2007)win vs align=left| Imani Lee (2007)loss vs Dave Huckaba (2008)loss vs Buddy Roberts (2008)win vs Richard Blake (2008)loss vs align=left| Gökhan Saki (2008)win vs align=left| Nicholas Pettas (2008)loss vs align=left| Patrice Quarteron (2008)win vs align=left| Terry Bullman (2008)loss vs Mike Hayes (2009)win vs align=left| Ethen Cox (2009)loss vs align=left| Ben Edwards (2009)loss vs align=left| Steve Banks (2010)loss vs align=left| Cătălin Moroşanu (2012)
winlossdraw / NC2004–2012

Record

MMA record

4–4

8 bouts on record

Finish rate

100%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile

KO/TKO: 4 (100%)
  • KO/TKO 100%

The career, bout by bout

31 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

9y

2004–2012

Longest unbeaten run

7

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2008

7 bouts

Recorded bouts

31

23 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2012 L align=left| Cătălin Moroşanu KO/TKO2
2010 L align=left| Steve Banks KO/TKO2
2009 L Mike Hayes Submission2
2009 W align=left| Ethen Cox Decision5
2009 L align=left| Ben Edwards KO/TKO1
2008 L Dave Huckaba Submission1
2008 L Buddy Roberts Submission1
2008 W Richard Blake KO/TKO1
2008 L align=left| Gökhan Saki KO/TKO1
2008 W align=left| Nicholas Pettas KO/TKO1
2008 L align=left| Patrice Quarteron KO/TKO1
2008 W align=left| Terry Bullman Decision2
2007 L Chase Gormley Submission2
2007 W Thomas Rosser KO/TKO1
2007 W Joe Abouata KO/TKO1
2007 W align=left| Imani Lee KO/TKO3
2006 W Dave Huckaba KO/TKO2
2006 W align=left| Mahmoud Fowzi KO/TKO1
2005 W align=left| Mike Sheppard KO/TKO2
2005 W align=left| Ben Davis KO/TKO1
2004 W align=left| Brian Wells Decision3
2004 W align=left| Bernard Settle, Jr. KO/TKO2
2004 W align=left| Matt Dunn KO/TKO2
? Mike Hayes 2
? Dave Huckaba 1
? Buddy Roberts 1
? Richard Blake 1
? Chase Gormley 2
? Thomas Rosser 1
? Joe Abouata 1
? Opponent

4 of these opponents have their own page here.

Records in more than one sport

Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Rick Cheek competed in 2, so the records sit together here.

DisciplineWonLostBy KO
MMA444
Kickboxing22519

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 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

Full methodology →

Source: Rick Cheek on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-02-09. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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