Clay French
19–6 · 25 recorded bouts · 2004–2014
Clay French finished 68% of 19 wins inside the distance — the 47th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 65.7″ (167 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Clay French, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
19–6
25 bouts on record
Finish rate
68%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 47th percentile
The career, bout by bout
25 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
11y
2004–2014
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
25
25 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | L | Thiago Meller | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | James Krause | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Billy Stamp | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Sean Wilson | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Eiji Mitsuoka | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Bryan Neville | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Michael Johnson | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Rory MacDonald | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Satoru Kitaoka | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Jameel Massouh | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Jason Ireland | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Bobby Mosley | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Sam Jackson | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Buddy Clinton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Dominic Bjerke | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Mac Danzig | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Shinya Aoki | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Justin James | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Alonzo Martinez | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | James Kugler | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Alex Carter | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Norm Alexander | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Josh Arocho | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Joe Veres | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Eric Gwaltney | Decision | 2 |
7 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 304 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: Clay French on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-01-06. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.