Matt Hughes
45–9 · 58 recorded bouts · 1998–2011
Matt Hughes finished 78% of 45 wins inside the distance — the 63rd percentile for welterweight MMA, where the median is 73%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Matt Hughes, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
45–9
54 bouts on record
Finish rate
78%
of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 63rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
58 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
1998–2011
Longest unbeaten run
12
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2000
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
58
55 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | L | Josh Koscheck | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | B.J. Penn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Ricardo Almeida | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Renzo Gracie | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Matt Serra | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Thiago Alves | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Georges St-Pierre | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Chris Lytle | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Georges St-Pierre | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | B.J. Penn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Royce Gracie | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Joe Riggs | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Frank Trigg | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Georges St-Pierre | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Renato Verissimo | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | B.J. Penn | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Frank Trigg | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Sean Sherk | Decision | 5 |
| 2002 | W | Gil Castillo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Carlos Newton | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2002 | W | Hayato Sakurai | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Carlos Newton | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Steve Gomm | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Hiromitsu Kanehara | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Chatt Lavender | Submission | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Scott Johnson | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | John Cronk | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Bruce Nelson | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Brett Al-azzawi | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | José Landi-Jons | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Dennis Hallman | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Maynard Marcum | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Robbie Newman | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Chris Haseman | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Joe Guist | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Marcelo Aguiar | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Shawn Peters | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Alexandre Barros | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Eric Davila | Submission | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Jorge Pereira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Tito Ortiz | Decision | — |
| 1999 | W | Daniel Vianna | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | LaVerne Clark | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Tom Schmitz | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Joe Doerksen | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Valeri Ignatov | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Akihiro Gono | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Erick Snyder | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Joe Stern | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Ryan Stout | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Dennis Hallman | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Dave Menne | Decision | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Victor Hunsaker | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Craig Quick | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Erick Snyder | KO/TKO | 1 |
| — | L | Jeff Monson | Decision | — |
| — | W | Jeremy Horn | Submission | — |
| — | W | Ricardo Almeida | — | — |
32 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 299 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: Matt Hughes (fighter) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-15. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.