Shortest Reach in UFC History

About Shortest Reach in UFC History

The shortest range on the roster, measured fingertip to fingertip

Reach is the distance from fingertip to fingertip with the arms outstretched. This board ranks every UFC fighter with a recorded measurement, shortest first - the fighters who have to get inside to do their work. Height rides on every row, because reach alone does not tell you much; it is the relationship between the two that says whether someone is genuinely short-armed or just small.

Read it inside a division

Unfiltered, the bottom of this list is almost entirely women's strawweight, for the obvious reason that the lightest fighters have the shortest arms. That is a fact rather than an insight. The division filter is what makes the board useful: a 68-inch reach is unremarkable at featherweight and a serious handicap at light heavyweight. Filter to a weight class and you get the fighters who actually give up range to the people they face.

What is and is not included

2,477 of the 4,516 fighters on the site have a published reach; the rest carry a placeholder and are excluded rather than treated as zero - counting a missing measurement as 0 inches would bury the real answer under a 1,966-way tie. A fighter also needs at least one recorded bout, because the roster contains signed fighters who never competed. The recorded range across the promotion runs from 58 inches to 84 inches with nothing outside it.

Pair this with the longest reach board for the other extreme, and with the head-to-head compare tool to put two fighters' physical numbers side by side. The full collection lives on the UFC stats hub.