Middleweight MMA
B.J. Penn vs Ryan Hall
A fight that actually happened — and everything both records say about it.
Meetings on record
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B.J. Penn and Ryan Hall met once (2018). Ryan Hall won in 2018 by submission.
SOURCE·B.J. Penn and Ryan Hall (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·both records name the other·REVIEWED AUG 2026
How this head-to-head is established
- This pairing exists only because at least one of the two articles' own results tables names the other fighter. No matchup on this site is speculative and none is a hypothetical.
- Every figure in the comparison below comes from that fighter's own page and carries the same source line. A dash means the source states nothing, not that the value is zero.
- Common opponents are found by matching linked bout lists, which is only possible because every fight list here is linked to every other. A shared opponent is not a transitive result and this page does not treat it as one.
- Nothing on this page predicts an outcome. It is a comparison of what is on record.
Both records, drawn
The same ledger line on each: wins stamped above the rule, losses below, the mark's shape carrying how it ended.
B.J. Penn
Ryan Hall
Cross-references
Where this pairing leads
B.J. Penn
The full ledger: 31 bouts, the reach placed in its cohort, and what the record does not say.
16–14 Ryan HallThe same, from the other corner — 14 bouts and the cohort Hall is ranked inside.
9–2 Every confirmed matchupThe other 899 pairings whose own records confirm the fight happened — not a list of fights anyone imagined.
900 BOUTS