Matt Skelton
80″ reach · +6.67% reach advantage · 90th percentile
0–1
Matt Skelton has a reach of 80″ against a height of 75″ — a reach advantage of +6.67%, exceptional for heavyweight MMA and the 90th percentile of the 140 compared here.
SOURCE·Matt Skelton — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-03
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 2026-06-03. 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 140 heavyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | L | Anthony Joshua | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | John McDermott | Decision | 10 |
| 2012 | L | David Price | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Jakov Gospic | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Ladislav Kovarik | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2012 | W | Tom Dallas | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2010 | L | Michael Sprott | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Kevin McBride | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Ali Adams | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | W | Lee Swaby | KO/TKO | 5 |
| 2010 | L | Kubrat Pulev | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2009 | L | Francesco Pianeta | KO/TKO | 8 |
| 2009 | L | Martin Rogan | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2008 | W | Paolo Vidoz | KO/TKO | 9 |
| 2008 | L | Ruslan Chagaev | Decision | 12 |
| 2007 | W | Michael Sprott | — | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Danny Williams | — | 12 |
| 2006 | W | Suren Kalachyan | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2005 | W | John McDermott | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Mark Krence | KO/TKO | 7 |
| 2005 | W | Fabio Moli | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2004 | W | Keith Long | KO/TKO | 11 |
| 2004 | W | Bob Mirovic | — | 4 |
| 2004 | W | Michael Sprott | KO/TKO | 12 |
| 2004 | W | Julius Francis | — | 10 |
| 2003 | W | Costel Patriche | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Ratko Draskovic | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Costi Marin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Mike Holden | KO/TKO | 6 |
| 2003 | W | Antoine Palatis | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2003 | W | Dave Clarke | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Alexey Varakin | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Jacklord Jacobs | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2002 | W | Neil Kirkwood | — | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Alvin Miller | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Gifford Shillingford | — | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Tom Erikson | Submission | 1 |
| undated | ? | Submission | — | 2001 |
| undated | ? | Opponent | — | — |
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Matt Skelton — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-03
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+6.67%
80″ reach on a 75″ frame
Compared against 140 heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 3.22%.
| Reach | 80″ (203.2 cm) | 76th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | 48th pct |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 26 of 37 dated bouts | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Record
MMA record
0–1
1 bouts on record
The career, bout by bout
39 recorded bouts from 2001 to 2014. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
14y
2001–2014
Longest unbeaten run
22
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2003
8 bouts
Recorded bouts
39
37 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Matt Skelton competed in 3, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | — | 1 | — |
| Boxing | 28 | 9 | 23 |
| Kickboxing | 63 | 8 | 57 |
Closest in build
heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Juan Espino+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Ovince Saint Preux+6.67% 80″ reach · 90th pct
- Soa Palelei+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Ben Rothwell+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Cheick Kongo+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Jake Hager+6.58% 81″ reach · 87th pct
- Bob Sapp+6.49% 82″ reach · 86th pct
- Johnny Walker+6.49% 82″ reach · 86th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Matt Skelton's record?
- 0–1 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 39 bouts individually.
- How many of Matt Skelton's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 39. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- 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 335 heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Skelton sits inside.
335 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA26 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsMatt Skelton went 22 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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