Paul Kelly
70″ reach · +1.43% reach advantage · 33rd percentile
15–5
Paul Kelly has a reach of 70″ against a height of 69″ — a reach advantage of +1.43%, short for middleweight MMA and the 33rd percentile of the 139 compared here.
SOURCE·Paul Kelly (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-17
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 2026-06-17. 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 139 middleweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | W | Simone Bottino | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | W | Henrique Santana | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Richard Griffin | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | L | Ryan Healy | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Donald Cerrone | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | TJ O'Brien | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Jacob Volkmann | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Matt Veach | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | L | Dennis Siver | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Rolando Delgado | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Troy Mandaloniz | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Marcus Davis | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Paul Taylor | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Jordan James | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Sami Berik | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Marius Liaukevicius | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Bruce Davis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | James Neal | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Nigel Whitear | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ian McAleese | KO/TKO | 1 |
4 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Paul Kelly (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-17
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+1.43%
70″ reach on a 69″ frame
Compared against 139 middleweight MMA fighters. Median 2.79%.
| Reach | 70″ (177.8 cm) | 4th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 69″ (175.3 cm) | 7th pct |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 3: lightweight, welterweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 12 of 20 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
MMA record
15–5
20 bouts on record
Finish rate
80%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 55th percentile
The career, bout by bout
20 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2020. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
16y
2005–2020
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2007
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
20
20 with a date
Closest in build
middleweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- John Maguire+1.43% 70″ reach · 33rd pct
- K.J. Noons+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Ian Heinisch+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Warlley Alves+1.44% 72″ reach · 35th pct
- Edgar García+1.41% 71″ reach · 32nd pct
- Takenori Sato+1.41% 71″ reach · 32nd pct
- Duško Todorović+1.4% 74″ reach · 28th pct
- Dan Miller+1.4% 74″ reach · 28th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Paul Kelly's record?
- 15–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 20 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 244 middleweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Kelly sits inside.
244 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA12 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsPaul Kelly went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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