Nick Thompson
38–14 · 53 recorded bouts · 2003–2011
38–14
Nick Thompson finished 84% of 38 wins inside the distance — the 79th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Nick Thompson (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-12-22
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 2025-12-22. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | L | Ben Askren | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Taisuke Okuno | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2009 | L | Dan Hornbuckle | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | L | Tim Kennedy | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Paul Daley | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Travis McCullough | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Jake Shields | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Michael Costa | Submission | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Fabricio Monteiro | Decision | 3 |
| 2008 | W | John Troyer | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Mark Weir | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Eddie Alvarez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | W | Dustin Denes | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Ansar Chalangov | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Joe Winterfeldt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Davion Peterson | Submission | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Steven Bratland | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Yancy Cuellar | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Chris Wilson | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Karo Parisyan | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Alex Carter | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Anthony White | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Keith Wisniewski | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Josh Neer | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Dereck Keasley | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Victor Moreno | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Chris Connelly | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Brian Fitzsimmons | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Ed Herman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Yushin Okami | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Marcel Ferreira | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Joey Clark | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Nuri Shakir | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Paul Purcell | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Brian Green | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Brian Gassaway | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Jesse Chilton | Submission | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Darren Hines | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | D | Daryl Guthmiller | Draw | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Brian Ebersole | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Sean Huffman | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | John Renken | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Ricky Seleuce | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Thiago Goncalves | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Brian Moore | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Jeff Doyle | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Mike Quinlan | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Emyr Bussade | Decision | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Kyle Helsper | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Dan Hart | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Dustin Denes | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Kyle Helsper | Submission | 1 |
| undated | L | Brian Ebersole | KO/TKO | — |
14 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Nick Thompson (fighter) — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-12-22
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 73″ (185.4 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, welterweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 50 of 52 dated bouts | |
| Country | United States |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Nick Thompson, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
38–14
53 bouts on record
Finish rate
84%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 79th percentile
The career, bout by bout
53 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2011. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
9y
2003–2011
Longest unbeaten run
9
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
15 bouts
Recorded bouts
53
52 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Nick Thompson's record?
- 38–14 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 53 bouts individually.
- How many of Nick Thompson's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 53. 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 304 lightweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Thompson sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA50 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsNick Thompson went 9 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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