Ron Sparks
24–3 · 12 recorded bouts · 2006–2013
Ron Sparks finished 96% of 24 wins inside the distance — the 70th 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
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 76″ (193 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Ron Sparks, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
24–3
27 bouts on record
Finish rate
96%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 70th percentile
The career, bout by bout
12 recorded bouts from 2006 to 2013. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
8y
2006–2013
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
12
12 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | L | Mighty Mo | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Vitaly Minakov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Eric Prindle | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Mark Holata | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Vince Lucero | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Gregory Maynard | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Johnathan Ivey | Decision | 4 |
| 2009 | W | Geoffrey Meisner | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Alexey Ignashov | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | TC Shane | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Aaron Schenk | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Heath Zimmerman | KO/TKO | 1 |
3 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Ron Sparks competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 24 | 3 | 22 |
| Kickboxing | 18 | 1 | 15 |
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 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
Source: Ron Sparks (fighter) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-01-06. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.