Ronaldo Souza
26–10 · 38 recorded bouts · 2003–2023
Ronaldo Souza finished 85% of 26 wins inside the distance — the 69th percentile for middleweight 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 | not recorded | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 2: light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Ronaldo Souza, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
26–10
36 bouts on record
Finish rate
85%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 69th percentile
The career, bout by bout
38 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2023. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
21y
2003–2023
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2008
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
38
38 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | L | Vitor Belfort | — | 6 |
| 2021 | L | André Muniz | Submission | 1 |
| 2020 | L | Kevin Holland | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Jan Błachowicz | Decision | 5 |
| 2019 | L | Jack Hermansson | Decision | 5 |
| 2018 | W | Chris Weidman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Kelvin Gastelum | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Derek Brunson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | L | Robert Whittaker | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Tim Boetsch | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Yoel Romero | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Chris Camozzi | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Gegard Mousasi | Submission | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Francis Carmont | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Yushin Okami | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Chris Camozzi | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Ed Herman | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Derek Brunson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Bristol Marunde | Submission | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Luke Rockhold | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Robbie Lawler | Submission | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Tim Kennedy | Decision | 5 |
| 2010 | W | Joey Villaseñor | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Matt Lindland | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | N | Jason Miller | — | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Gegard Mousasi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Zelg Galešić | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Jason Miller | Decision | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Ian Murphy | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Wendell Santos | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | José de Ribamar | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Bill Vucick | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Haim Gozali | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Alexey Prokofiev | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Alexander Shlemenko | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Victor Babkir | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Jorge Patino | KO/TKO | 1 |
30 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 244 middleweight 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: Ronaldo Souza on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-11. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.