Clay French
19–6 · 25 recorded bouts · 2004–2014
19–6
Clay French finished 68% of 19 wins inside the distance — the 47th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Clay French — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-06
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 2026-01-06. 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 304 lightweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | L | Thiago Meller | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | W | James Krause | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Billy Stamp | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Sean Wilson | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Eiji Mitsuoka | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Bryan Neville | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Michael Johnson | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Rory MacDonald | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Satoru Kitaoka | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Jameel Massouh | Submission | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Jason Ireland | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Bobby Mosley | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Sam Jackson | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Buddy Clinton | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Dominic Bjerke | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Mac Danzig | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Shinya Aoki | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Justin James | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Alonzo Martinez | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | James Kugler | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Alex Carter | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Norm Alexander | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Josh Arocho | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Joe Veres | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Eric Gwaltney | Decision | 2 |
7 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Clay French — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-01-06
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 65.7″ (167 cm) | |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 21 of 25 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Clay French, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
19–6
25 bouts on record
Finish rate
68%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 47th percentile
The career, bout by bout
25 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
11y
2004–2014
Longest unbeaten run
10
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2006
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
25
25 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Clay French's record?
- 19–6 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 25 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 French sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA21 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsClay French went 10 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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