Wanderlei Silva
35–14 · 51 recorded bouts · 1996–2025
Wanderlei Silva finished 80% of 35 wins inside the distance — the 37th 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 | 70″ (177.8 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Brazil |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Wanderlei Silva, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
35–14
50 bouts on record
Finish rate
80%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 37th percentile
The career, bout by bout
51 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
30y
1996–2025
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2000
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
51
48 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L | Acelino Freitas | — | 4 |
| 2018 | L | Quinton Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | L | Chael Sonnen | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | D | Kazushi Sakuraba and Hideo Tokoro | Draw | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Brian Stann | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | L | Rich Franklin | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | Cung Le | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Chris Leben | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Michael Bisping | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Rich Franklin | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Quinton Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Keith Jardine | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Chuck Liddell | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Dan Henderson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Kazuyuki Fujita | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ricardo Arona | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Kazuhiro Nakamura | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Hidehiko Yoshida | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Mark Hunt | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Quinton Jackson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Yuki Kondo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Ikuhisa Minowa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Quinton Jackson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Hiromitsu Kanehara | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Tatsuya Iwasaki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | D | Mirko Cro Cop | Draw | 5 |
| 2002 | W | Kiyoshi Tamura | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Alexander Otsuka | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Shungo Oyama | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Dan Henderson | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | N | Gilbert Yvel | — | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Guy Mezger | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Todd Medina | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Tito Ortiz | Decision | 5 |
| 2000 | W | Bob Schrijber | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Daijiro Matsui | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Carl Malenko | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Tony Petarra | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Eugene Jackson | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Adrian Serrano | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Mike van Arsdale | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Artur Mariano | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Marcelao Barbosa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Dilson Filho | KO/TKO | 1 |
| — | W | Hidehiko Yoshida | Decision | — |
| — | W | Egidio da Costa | Submission | — |
| — | W | Sean Bormet | KO/TKO | — |
34 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: Wanderlei Silva on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-06-11. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.