Matt Bessette
25–9 · 36 recorded bouts · 2007–2021
25–9
Matt Bessette finished 68% of 25 wins inside the distance — the 55th percentile for featherweight MMA, where the median is 65%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Matt Bessette — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-03-02
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 2026-03-02. 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 222 featherweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | W | Ryan Dela Cruz | Submission | 3 |
| 2020 | L | Jeremy Kennedy | Decision | 3 |
| 2020 | W | Charles Cheeks III | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2019 | W | Tim Dooling | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Steven Peterson | Decision | 3 |
| 2018 | L | Enrique Barzola | Decision | 3 |
| 2017 | N | Kurt Holobaugh | — | 1 |
| 2017 | W | Rey Trujillo | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2017 | W | Kevin Croom | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2016 | W | Joe Pingitore | Submission | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Ran Weathers | Submission | 1 |
| 2016 | W | Keith Richardson | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2016 | W | Taurean Bogguess | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Kevin Roddy | Submission | 1 |
| 2015 | L | Lenny Wheeler | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Khama Worthy | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | W | Josh LaBerge | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | L | Scott Cleve | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | L | Daniel Weichel | Decision | 3 |
| 2014 | W | Diego Nunes | Decision | 3 |
| 2013 | W | Nick Piedmont | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Jeff Anderson | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Paul Barrow | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Aniss Alhajjajy | Decision | 3 |
| 2012 | L | Andres Jeudi | DQ | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Saul Almeida | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | L | Joe Proctor | Decision | 5 |
| 2011 | W | John Benoit | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | W | Anthony Kaponis | Decision | 5 |
| 2010 | W | Andrew Amaral | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Andrew Carron | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Chris Chappell | Submission | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Jeff Camera | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Andres Lebron | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Bill Jones | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Chris Correira | Submission | 3 |
8 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Matt Bessette — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-03-02
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Featherweight MMA competed at 2: lightweight, featherweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2010s — 27 of 36 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Matt Bessette, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
25–9
34 bouts on record
Finish rate
68%
of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight MMA median 65%, 55th percentile
The career, bout by bout
36 recorded bouts from 2007 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
15y
2007–2021
Longest unbeaten run
8
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2012
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
36
36 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Matt Bessette's record?
- 25–9 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 36 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 225 featherweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Bessette sits inside.
225 FIGHTERS 2010s MMA27 of these bouts fall in the 2010s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
1,144 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMatt Bessette went 8 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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