Yves Edwards
73″ reach · +4.27% reach advantage · 67th percentile
Yves Edwards has a reach of 73″ against a height of 70″ — a reach advantage of +4.27%, above average for welterweight MMA and the 67th percentile of the 174 compared here.
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+4.27%
73″ reach on a 70″ frame
Compared against 174 welterweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 73″ (185.4 cm) | 42nd pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 28th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA competed at 2: lightweight, welterweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Record
MMA record
42–22
65 bouts on record
Finish rate
79%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 67th percentile
The career, bout by bout
66 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
18y
1997–2014
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2001
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
66
66 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | L | Akbarh Arreola | Submission | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Piotr Hallmann | Submission | 3 |
| 2013 | N | Yancy Medeiros | — | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Daron Cruickshank | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | L | Isaac Vallie-Flagg | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Jeremy Stephens | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Tony Ferguson | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Rafaello Oliveira | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Sam Stout | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Cody McKenzie | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | John Gunderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Luis Palomino | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Mike Campbell | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Derrick Noble | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Kyle Jensen | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | James Warfield | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Duane Ludwig | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | K. J. Noons | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | James Edson Berto | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Alonzo Martinez | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Nick Gonzalez | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Jorge Masvidal | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Mike Brown | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Joe Stevenson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Seichi Ikemoto | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Mark Hominick | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Joachim Hansen | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Dokonjonosuke Mishima | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Hermes França | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Naoyuki Kotani | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Josh Thomson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Hermes Franca | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Deshaun Johnson | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Nick Agallar | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Tatsuya Kawajiri | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Eddie Ruiz | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Rich Clementi | Submission | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Kohei Yasumi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Joao Marcos Pierini | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Caol Uno | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Kultar Gill | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Matt Serra | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Aaron Riley | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | D | C.J. Fernandes | Draw | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Jeff Lindsay | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Bone Sayavonga | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Jeremy Williams | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | David Harris | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Scott Bills | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Danny Bennett | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Pete Spratt | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Cedric Marks | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Andy Mockler | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Rumina Sato | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Stacy Coughlin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Aaron Riley | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Shannon Ritch | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Nate Marquardt | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Anthony Holiday | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Thomas Denny | Submission | 1 |
Showing the 60 most recent of 66 recorded bouts.
31 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Yves Edwards competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 42 | 22 | 17 |
| Boxing | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Closest in build
welterweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Joseph Duffy Seosamh Ó Dubhthaigh+4.27% 73″ reach · 67th pct
- Mitch Clarke+4.27% 73″ reach · 67th pct
- Desmond Green+4.27% 73″ reach · 67th pct
- Kiichi Kunimoto ストラッサー起一+4.27% 73″ reach · 67th pct
- Austin Vanderford+4.27% 74″ reach · 67th pct
- Louis Taylor+4.27% 74″ reach · 67th pct
- André Santos+4.27% 74″ reach · 67th pct
- Gholam Reza Madadi+4.27% 73″ reach · 67th 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 174 welterweight 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: Yves Edwards on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-06-17. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.