Matt Hughes
WelterweightInactive
Career record
45–9–0
wins–losses–draws
UFC record
18–7–0
as stored in the database
Wins by
8KO5SUB5DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Losses by
4KO3SUB0DEC
knockout · submission · decision
Bio & physicals
- Date of birth
- 1973-10-13 · age 52
- Height
- 5′ 9″ (69 in)
- Reach
- 73 in
- Leg reach
- —
- Stance
- Switch
- Country
- United States
- Hometown
- Hillsboro, United States
- Gym / team
- HIT Squad
- Octagon debut
- 1999-09-24
Striking & grappling
- Strikes landed per minute
- 2.14
- Striking accuracy
- 53%
- Strikes absorbed per minute
- 1.36
- Striking defence
- 53%
- Takedown average
- 2.95
- Takedown accuracy
- 50%
- Takedown defence
- 35%
- Submission average
- 1.20
Career averages as stored. A dash is a value the database does not hold; a zero is a recorded zero. Nothing on this page is computed from the bouts below.
Bout history
25 recorded · newest first| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Weight class | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-09-24 | Josh Koscheck | Loss | TKO · R1 · 4:59 | Welterweight | UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage |
| 2010-11-20 | BJ Penn | Loss | TKO · R1 · 0:21 | Welterweight | UFC 123: Rampage vs Machida |
| 2010-08-07 | Ricardo Almeida | Win | Submission · R1 · 3:15 | Welterweight | UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen |
| 2010-04-10 | Renzo Gracie | Win | TKO · R3 · 4:40 | Welterweight | UFC 112: Invincible |
| 2009-05-23 | Matt Serra | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Welterweight | UFC 98: Evans vs Machida |
| 2008-06-07 | Thiago Alves | Loss | TKO · R2 · 1:02 | Welterweight | UFC 85: Bedlam |
| 2007-12-29 | Georges St-Pierre | Loss | Submission · R2 · 4:54 | Welterweight | UFC 79: Nemesis |
| 2007-03-03 | Chris Lytle | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Welterweight | UFC 68: The Uprising |
| 2006-11-18 | Georges St-Pierre | Loss | TKO · R2 · 1:25 | Welterweight | UFC 65: Bad Intentions |
| 2006-09-23 | BJ Penn | Win | TKO · R3 · 3:53 | Welterweight | UFC 63: Hughes vs Penn |
| 2006-05-27 | Royce Gracie | Win | TKO · R1 · 4:39 | Catchweight | UFC 60: Hughes vs Gracie |
| 2005-11-19 | Joe Riggs | Win | Submission · R1 · 3:28 | Welterweight | UFC 56: Full Force |
| 2005-04-16 | Frank Trigg | Win | Submission · R1 · 4:05 | Welterweight | UFC 52: Couture vs Liddell 2 |
| 2004-10-22 | Georges St-Pierre | Win | Submission · R1 · 4:59 | Welterweight | UFC 50: The War Of '04 |
| 2004-06-19 | Renato Verissimo | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Welterweight | UFC 48: Payback |
| 2004-01-31 | BJ Penn | Loss | Submission · R1 · 4:39 | Welterweight | UFC 46: Supernatural |
| 2003-11-21 | Frank Trigg | Win | Submission · R1 · 3:54 | Welterweight | UFC 45: Revolution |
| 2003-04-25 | Sean Sherk | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Welterweight | UFC 42: Sudden Impact |
| 2002-11-22 | Gil Castillo | Win | TKO · R1 · 5:00 | Welterweight | UFC 40: Vendetta |
| 2002-07-13 | Carlos Newton | Win | TKO · R4 · 3:37 | Welterweight | UFC 38: Brawl at the Hall |
| 2002-03-22 | Hayato Sakurai | Win | TKO · R4 · 3:01 | Welterweight | UFC 36: Worlds Collide |
| 2001-11-02 | Carlos Newton | Win | TKO · R2 · 1:27 | Welterweight | UFC 34: High Voltage |
| 2000-12-16 | Dennis Hallman | Loss | Submission · R1 · 0:20 | Welterweight | UFC 29: Defense of the Belts |
| 2000-06-09 | Marcelo Aguiar | Win | TKO · R1 · 4:34 | Welterweight | UFC 26: Ultimate Field Of Dreams |
| 1999-09-24 | Valeri Ignatov | Win | Unanimous Decision · R3 · 5:00 | Lightweight | UFC 22: Only One Can be Champion |
Bouts are matched to this fighter on ID, never on name — 25 rows in the archive list Matt Hughes as one of the two fighters. The bout count here is a count of rows in this archive and will not always equal the career record above, which is a separate stored field. The database also holds an Elo rating for each fighter; it is a current rating that already contains the results below, so it is not published on this page.
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