Nick Thompson
38–14 · 53 recorded bouts · 2003–2011
Nick Thompson finished 84% of 38 wins inside the distance — the 79th 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 | 73″ (185.4 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, welterweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Nick Thompson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
38–14
53 bouts on record
Finish rate
84%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 79th percentile
The career, bout by bout
53 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
2003–2011
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
15 bouts
Recorded bouts
53
52 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | L | Ben Askren | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Taisuke Okuno | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Dan Hornbuckle | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | L | Tim Kennedy | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Paul Daley | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Travis McCullough | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Jake Shields | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Michael Costa | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Fabricio Monteiro | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | John Troyer | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Mark Weir | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Eddie Alvarez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Dustin Denes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ansar Chalangov | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Joe Winterfeldt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Davion Peterson | Submission | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Steven Bratland | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Yancy Cuellar | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Chris Wilson | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Karo Parisyan | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Alex Carter | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Anthony White | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Keith Wisniewski | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Josh Neer | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Dereck Keasley | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Victor Moreno | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Chris Connelly | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Brian Fitzsimmons | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Ed Herman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Yushin Okami | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Marcel Ferreira | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Joey Clark | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Nuri Shakir | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Paul Purcell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Brian Green | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Brian Gassaway | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Jesse Chilton | Submission | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Darren Hines | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | D | Daryl Guthmiller | Draw | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Brian Ebersole | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Sean Huffman | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | John Renken | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Ricky Seleuce | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Thiago Goncalves | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Brian Moore | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Jeff Doyle | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Mike Quinlan | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Emyr Bussade | Decision | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Kyle Helsper | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Dan Hart | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Dustin Denes | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Kyle Helsper | Submission | 1 |
| — | L | Brian Ebersole | KO/TKO | — |
14 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: Nick Thompson (fighter) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-12-22. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.