Matt Bessette
25–9 · 36 recorded bouts · 2007–2021
Matt Bessette finished 68% of 25 wins inside the distance — the 55th percentile for featherweight MMA, where the median is 65%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight MMA competed at 2: lightweight, featherweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2010s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Matt Bessette, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
25–9
34 bouts on record
Finish rate
68%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight MMA median 65%, 55th percentile
The career, bout by bout
36 recorded bouts from 2007 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2007–2021
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2012
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
36
36 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | W | Ryan Dela Cruz | Submission | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Jeremy Kennedy | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Charles Cheeks III | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Tim Dooling | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Steven Peterson | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Enrique Barzola | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | N | Kurt Holobaugh | — | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Rey Trujillo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Kevin Croom | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Joe Pingitore | Submission | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Ran Weathers | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Keith Richardson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Taurean Bogguess | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Kevin Roddy | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Lenny Wheeler | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Khama Worthy | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Josh LaBerge | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | L | Scott Cleve | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Daniel Weichel | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Diego Nunes | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Nick Piedmont | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Jeff Anderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Paul Barrow | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Aniss Alhajjajy | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Andres Jeudi | DQ | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Saul Almeida | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Joe Proctor | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | John Benoit | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Anthony Kaponis | Decision | 5 |
| 2010 | W | Andrew Amaral | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Andrew Carron | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Chris Chappell | Submission | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Jeff Camera | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Andres Lebron | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Bill Jones | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Chris Correira | Submission | 3 |
8 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 222 featherweight 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: Matt Bessette on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-03-02. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.