Valentijn Overeem
30–32 · 66 recorded bouts · 1996–2014
Valentijn Overeem finished 97% of 30 wins inside the distance — the 71st 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 | 75″ (190.5 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Valentijn Overeem, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
30–32
62 bouts on record
Finish rate
97%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 71st percentile
The career, bout by bout
66 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
19y
1996–2014
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2000
9 bouts
Recorded bouts
66
60 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | L | Ante Delija | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Konstantin Gluhov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Mikhail Mokhnatkin | Submission | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Konstantin Gluhov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Michael Knaap | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Evgeny Erokhin | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Michał Kita | Submission | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Marcin Rózalski | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Chad Griggs | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Ray Sefo | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Catalin Zmarandescu | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Tengiz Tedoradze | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Rafal Dabrowski | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Nikolai Onikienko | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Kazuo Takahashi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Sasa Lazic | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Milco Voorn | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Gilbert Yvel | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Shungo Oyama | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Kresimir Bogdanovic | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ross Pointon | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Dave Dalgliesh | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Autimio Antonia | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Roman Savochka | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Dave Vader | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Mikko Rupponen | Decision | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Ibragim Magomedov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Ron Waterman | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Rodney Glunder | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Aaron Brink | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Marc Emmanuel | KO/TKO | — |
| 2001 | L | Igor Vovchanchyn | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Assuério Silva | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Gary Goodridge | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Ian Freeman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Jerrel Venetiaan | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Suren Balachinskiy | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Joe Slick | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Tuli Kulihaapai | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Brad Kohler | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Fatih Kocamis | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Achmed Labasanov | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Dennis Reed | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Hiromitsu Kanehara | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Hiromitsu Kanehara | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Gilbert Yvel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Kiyoshi Tamura | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Kenichi Yamamoto | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Dexter Casey | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Chris Haseman | Decision | 2 |
| 1997 | L | Wataru Sakata | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Mitsuya Nagai | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Cees Bezems | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Masayuki Naruse | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Wataru Sakata | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Jeroen Waringa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Tjerk Vermanen | Submission | 1 |
Showing the 60 most recent of 66 recorded bouts.
28 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 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: Valentijn Overeem on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-24. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.