Matt Hughes
45–9 · 58 recorded bouts · 1998–2011
45–9
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.
SOURCE·Matt Hughes (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-15
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 2026-07-15. 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 299 welterweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| undated | L | Jeff Monson | Decision | — |
| undated | W | Jeremy Horn | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Ricardo Almeida | — | — |
32 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Matt Hughes (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-15
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Welterweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 37 of 55 dated bouts | |
| 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
What this record does and does not say
- What is Matt Hughes's record?
- 45–9 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 58 bouts individually.
- How many of Matt Hughes's bouts have no date?
- 3 of 58. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- 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 302 welterweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Hughes sits inside.
302 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA37 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Matt Hughes vs Matt SerraA bout both records confirm — set out side by side, with every opponent the two men have in common.
2009 Longest unbeaten runsMatt Hughes went 12 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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