Paul Hughes
70″ reach · +1.43% reach advantage · 30th percentile
14–3
Paul Hughes has a reach of 70″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of +1.43%, short for lightweight MMA and the 30th percentile of the 161 compared here.
SOURCE·Paul Hughes (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01
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 2026-08-01. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | L | Usman Nurmagomedov | Decision | 5 |
| 2025 | W | Bruno Miranda | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2024 | W | A. J. McKee | Decision | 3 |
| 2024 | W | Bobby King | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2024 | W | Fabiano Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2023 | W | Jan Quaeyhaegens | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2022 | W | Jordan Vucenic | Decision | 5 |
| 2021 | W | Morgan Charrière | Decision | 5 |
| 2021 | W | James Hendin | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Jordan Vucenic | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Aidan Stephen | Submission | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Youri Panada | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2019 | W | Kalifa Seydi | Submission | 1 |
| 2019 | W | Mateusz Makarowski | Submission | — |
| 2019 | W | Stephen O'Neill | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Adam Gustab | KO/TKO | 1 |
2 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Paul Hughes (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.43%
70″ reach on a 69″ frame
Compared against 161 lightweight MMA fighters. Median 2.83%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 26th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 39th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 2: featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2020s — 12 of 16 dated bouts | |
| Country | Ireland |
Record
MMA record
14–3
17 bouts on record
Finish rate
71%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 52nd percentile
The career, bout by bout
16 recorded bouts from 2017 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
2017–2025
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2019
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
16
16 with a date
Closest in build
lightweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Joe Solecki+1.43% 70″ reach · 30th pct
- Chris Wade+1.43% 70″ reach · 30th pct
- Sam Stout+1.43% 70″ reach · 30th pct
- Arnold Allen+1.43% 70″ reach · 30th pct
- Efraín Escudero+1.43% 70″ reach · 30th pct
- Josh Neer+1.44% 72″ reach · 34th pct
- Renato Moicano+1.44% 72″ reach · 34th pct
- Usman Nurmagomedov+1.44% 72″ reach · 34th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Paul Hughes's record?
- 14–3 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 16 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 Hughes sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2020s MMA12 of these bouts fall in the 2020s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
268 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsPaul Hughes went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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