John Makdessi
68″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 12th percentile
18–9
John Makdessi has a reach of 68″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of 0%, unusually short for lightweight MMA and the 12th percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·John Makdessi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-09
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-06-09. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 161 lightweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
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.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | L | Jamie Mullarkey | Decision | 3 |
| 2022 | L | Nasrat Haqparast | Decision | 3 |
| 2021 | W | Ignacio Bahamondes | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Francisco Trinaldo | Decision | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Jesus Pinedo | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | W | Ross Pearson | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | W | Abel Trujillo | Decision | 3 |
| 2016 | L | Lando Vannata | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Mehdi Baghdad | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Yancy Medeiros | Decision | 3 |
| 2015 | L | Donald Cerrone | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Shane Campbell | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | L | Alan Patrick | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Renée Forte | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Daron Cruickshank | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Sam Stout | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Anthony Njokuani | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Dennis Hallman | Submission | 1 |
| 2011 | W | Kyle Watson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Pat Audinwood | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Bendy Casimir | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Lindsey Hawkes | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Brandon McArthur | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Iraj Hadin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Amir Uddin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Dan Dechaine | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Todd Westcott | KO/TKO | 1 |
16 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·John Makdessi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-09
Reach in context
Reach advantage
0%
68″ reach on a 68″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 6th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | 21st pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 18 of 27 dated bouts | |
| Country | Canada |
Record
MMA record
18–9
27 bouts on record
Finish rate
50%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 11th percentile
The career, bout by bout
27 recorded bouts from 2008 to 2023. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
2008–2023
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2009
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
27
27 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
What this record does and does not say
- What is John Makdessi's record?
- 18–9 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 27 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.
Where this record leads
The 304 lightweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Makdessi sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA18 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsJohn Makdessi went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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