Yoel Romero
17–7 · 70 recorded bouts · 1997–2026
Yoel Romero finished 82% of 17 wins inside the distance — the 62nd 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 | 70″ (177.8 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 2: light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Yoel Romero, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
17–7
24 bouts on record
Finish rate
82%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 62nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
70 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
30y
1997–2026
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2011
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
70
40 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W | Alex Nicholson | Submission | 1 |
| 2026 | L | Vagab Vagabov | Decision | 5 |
| 2026 | L | Stephen Buchanan | — | — |
| 2025 | W | Ras Hylton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2025 | W | Theo Doukaus | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2025 | W | Pat Downey | — | — |
| 2024 | W | Thiago Santos | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Duane Crespo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2023 | L | Vadim Nemkov | Decision | 5 |
| 2022 | W | Melvin Manhoef | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2022 | W | Alex Polizzi | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Phil Davis | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Israel Adesanya | Decision | 5 |
| 2019 | L | Paulo Costa | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Chris Barnett | Submission | — |
| 2018 | L | Robert Whittaker | Decision | 5 |
| 2018 | W | Luke Rockhold | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2017 | L | Robert Whittaker | Decision | 5 |
| 2016 | W | Chris Weidman | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Ronaldo Souza | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | W | Lyoto Machida | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Tim Kennedy | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Brad Tavares | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Derek Brunson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Ronny Markes | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Clifford Starks | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Rafael Cavalcante | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | W | Laszlo Eck | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Ņikita Petrovs | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Michał Fijałka | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Sascha Weinpolter | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Revaz Mindorashvili | — | — |
| 2004 | L | Sazhid Sazhidov | — | — |
| 2003 | L | Sazhid Sazhidov | — | — |
| 2002 | L | Adam Saitiev | — | — |
| 2001 | W | Beibulat Musaev | — | — |
| 2000 | L | Adam Saitiev | — | — |
| 1999 | W | Khadzhimurad Magomedov | — | — |
| 1998 | W | Khadzhimurad Magomedov | — | — |
| 1997 | L | Soslan Fraev | — | — |
| — | W | Taras Danko | — | — |
| — | W | Soslan Gattsiev | — | — |
| — | W | Radosław Horbik | — | — |
| — | W | Abraham Vasallo | — | — |
| — | L | Cael Sanderson | — | — |
| — | W | Lazaros Loizidis | — | — |
| — | W | Davyd Bichinashvili | — | — |
| — | W | Jeffrey Cobb | — | — |
| — | L | Mogamed Ibragimov | — | — |
| — | W | Thomas Bucheli | — | — |
| — | W | Marcin Jurecki | — | — |
| — | W | Majid Khodaei | — | — |
| — | W | Revaz Mindorashvili | — | — |
| — | W | Katsutoshi Senba | — | — |
| — | W | Gabor Kapuvari | — | — |
| — | L | Khadzhimurad Magomedov | — | — |
| — | W | Andre Backhaus | — | — |
| — | W | Mahmed Aghaev | — | — |
| — | W | Amir Reza Khadem | — | — |
| — | W | Justin Abdou | — | — |
Showing the 60 most recent of 70 recorded bouts.
19 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: Yoel Romero on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-29. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.