Youssef Zalal
72″ reach · +2.87% reach advantage · 56th percentile
Youssef Zalal has a reach of 72″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +2.87%, above average for lightweight MMA and the 56th percentile of the 161 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+2.87%
72″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 72″ (182.9 cm) | 61st pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 58th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 3: bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2020s |
Record
MMA record
18–6
25 bouts on record
Finish rate
78%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 66th percentile
The career, bout by bout
25 recorded bouts from 2017 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
10y
2017–2026
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2020
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
25
25 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | L | Aljamain Sterling | Decision | 5 |
| 2025 | ? | Josh Emmett | Submission | 1 |
| 2025 | ? | Calvin Kattar | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | ? | Jack Shore | Submission | 2 |
| 2024 | ? | Jarno Errens | Submission | 1 |
| 2024 | W | Billy Quarantillo | Submission | 2 |
| 2023 | W | Vadim Zadnipryanyi | Submission | 1 |
| 2023 | W | Jake Childers | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | W | Edwin Chavez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | D | Da'Mon Blackshear | Draw | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Sean Woodson | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | L | Choi Seung-woo | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Ilia Topuria | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Peter Barrett | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Jordan Griffin | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Austin Lingo | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Jaime Hernandez | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2019 | L | Matt Jones | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | L | Jose Mariscal | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Steven Merrill | Submission | 1 |
| 2018 | W | Daniel Soto | Submission | 2 |
| 2018 | W | Joey Banks | Submission | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Clay Wimer | Submission | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Maurice Salazar | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Michael Santos | Submission | 3 |
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Youssef Zalal competed in 3, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 18 | 6 | 4 |
| Boxing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kickboxing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Charlie Brenneman+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Joe Proctor+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Josh Burkman+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Vinc Pichel+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Beneil Dariush+2.87% 72″ reach · 56th pct
- Jordan Leavitt+2.85% 71″ reach · 53rd pct
- Rong Zhu+2.85% 71″ reach · 53rd pct
- Tae Hyun Bang+2.85% 71″ reach · 53rd 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 161 lightweight 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: Youssef Zalal on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-06-23. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.