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Lightweight MMA · 2010s

Kyle Nelson

17–7 · 25 recorded bouts · 2012–2026

Kyle Nelson finished 59% of 17 wins inside the distance — the 29th 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

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height71″ (180.3 cm)
Stance
DivisionLightweight MMA
competed at 2: featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last
Peak era2010s
CountryCanada

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Kyle Nelson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2020 win vs Jo Petahtegoose (2012)win vs Michael Dufort (2012)win vs Neelan Hordatt (2013)win vs Maxime Dubois (2013)win vs Ainsley Robinson (2014)win vs Alex Halkias (2014)loss vs Adrian Hadribeaj (2015)win vs Jonathan Brookins (2016)win vs Zoltán Turi (2016)win vs Justin Bourgeois (2016)win vs Khama Worthy (2017)win vs Gabriel Mănucă (2017)loss vs Carlos Diego Ferreira (2018)win vs Morteza Rezaei (2018)win vs Polo Reyes (2019)loss vs Matt Sayles (2019)loss vs Billy Quarantillo (2020)loss vs Jai Herbert (2022)win vs Fernando Padilla (2023)win vs Blake Bilder (2023)draw vs Choi Doo-ho (2023)loss vs Steve Garcia (2024)win vs Bill Algeo (2024)win vs Matt Frevola (2025)loss vs Terrance McKinney (2026)
winlossdraw / NC2012–2026

Record

MMA record

17–7

25 bouts on record

Finish rate

59%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 29th percentile

KO/TKO: 6 (35%)Submission: 4 (24%)Decision: 7 (41%)
  • KO/TKO 35%
  • Submission 24%
  • Decision 41%

The career, bout by bout

25 recorded bouts from 2012 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

15y

2012–2026

Longest unbeaten run

6

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2016

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

25

25 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2026 L Terrance McKinney KO/TKO1
2025 W Matt Frevola Decision3
2024 L Steve Garcia KO/TKO1
2024 W Bill Algeo KO/TKO1
2023 W Fernando Padilla Decision3
2023 W Blake Bilder Decision3
2023 D Choi Doo-ho Draw3
2022 L Jai Herbert Decision3
2020 L Billy Quarantillo KO/TKO3
2019 W Polo Reyes KO/TKO1
2019 L Matt Sayles Submission3
2018 L Carlos Diego Ferreira KO/TKO2
2018 W Morteza Rezaei KO/TKO1
2017 W Khama Worthy KO/TKO1
2017 W Gabriel Mănucă Submission1
2016 W Jonathan Brookins Decision3
2016 W Zoltán Turi Submission1
2016 W Justin Bourgeois KO/TKO1
2015 L Adrian Hadribeaj Decision5
2014 W Ainsley Robinson Submission1
2014 W Alex Halkias Decision3
2013 W Neelan Hordatt Decision3
2013 W Maxime Dubois KO/TKO2
2012 W Jo Petahtegoose Submission1
2012 W Michael Dufort Decision3

12 of these opponents have their own page here.

How this is worked out

  1. Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. 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

Full methodology →

Source: Kyle Nelson (fighter) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-27. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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