Rousimar Palhares
71″ reach · +4.4% reach advantage · 81st percentile
Rousimar Palhares has a reach of 71″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of +4.4%, long for light heavyweight MMA and the 81st percentile of the 88 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.4%
71″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.
| Reach | 71″ (180.3 cm) | 2nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 2nd pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Brazil |
Record
MMA record
19–13
33 bouts on record
Finish rate
84%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 60th percentile
The career, bout by bout
33 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
21y
2004–2024
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
33
33 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | L | Florent Betorangal | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | L | Anatoliy Boyko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | L | Ibragim Magomedov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | L | Georgy Kichigin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2018 | L | Aliaskhab Khizriev | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | D | Shamil Amirov | Draw | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Aleksei Ivanov | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | L | Michał Materla | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | L | Emil Weber Meek | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Jake Shields | Submission | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Jon Fitch | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Steve Carl | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Mike Pierce | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Héctor Lombard | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Alan Belcher | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Mike Massenzio | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Dan Miller | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | David Branch | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Nate Marquardt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Tomasz Drwal | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Lucio Linhares | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Jeremy Horn | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Dan Henderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Ivan Salaverry | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Daniel Acacio | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Fabio Nascimento | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Flavio Luiz Moura | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Helio Dipp | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Claudio Mattos | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Arthur Cesar Jacintho | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Renan Moraes | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Bruno Bastos | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Leandro Silva | Decision | 3 |
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
Closest in build
light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Chris Haseman+4.27% 74″ reach · 77th pct
- Darren Stewart+4.27% 74″ reach · 77th pct
- Daniel Henderson+4.27% 74″ reach · 77th pct
- Carlos Felipe+4.16% 75″ reach · 74th pct
- Parker Porter+4.16% 75″ reach · 74th pct
- Tom Lawlor+4.16% 75″ reach · 74th pct
- Tomasz Drwal+4.1% 76″ reach · 70th pct
- Sean Strickland+4.1% 76″ reach · 70th pct
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 88 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: Rousimar Palhares on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-25. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.