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John Kavanagh

3–3 · 6 recorded bouts · 2000–2003

MMA record

3–3

John Kavanagh finished 100% of 3 wins inside the distance — the 95th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

2000win v Leighton Hill, 2000, submissionloss v Bobby Karagiannidis, 2001, koloss v Danny Batten, 2002, submissionloss v Leigh Remedios, 2002, decisionwin v Tamel Hasar, 2002, submissionwin v Robbie Oliver, 2003, submission
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2000–2003

SOURCE·John Kavanagh (martial artist) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-06

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-01-06. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
  3. A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
  4. Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 304 lightweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2003 W Robbie Oliver Submission1
2002 L Danny Batten Submission2
2002 L Leigh Remedios Decision3
2002 W Tamel Hasar Submission1
2001 L Bobby Karagiannidis KO/TKO1
2000 W Leighton Hill Submission1

SOURCE·John Kavanagh (martial artist) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-06

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height69″ (175.3 cm)
Stance—
DivisionLightweight MMA
inferred from the listed weight, not stated as a class
Most active decade2000s — 6 of 6 dated bouts
CountryIreland

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

2000 win vs Leighton Hill (2000)loss vs Bobby Karagiannidis (2001)loss vs Danny Batten (2002)loss vs Leigh Remedios (2002)win vs Tamel Hasar (2002)win vs Robbie Oliver (2003)
winlossdraw / NC2000–2003

Record

MMA record

3–3

6 bouts on record

Finish rate

100%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 95th percentile

Submission: 3 (100%)
  • Submission 100%

The career, bout by bout

6 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2003. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

4y

2000–2003

Longest unbeaten run

2

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2002

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

6

6 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is John Kavanagh's record?
3–3 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 6 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?
No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

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