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Paul Hughes

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Age: 27
Last 5: W W W W L
Association: Fight Academy Ireland
Pro Debut Date: 2017-02-24
Pro Record: 13-2-0
Current Ranking:
#12 Lightweight
'Big League' Record: 10-2-0
Last 3 Years: 5-1-0
Win Finish %: 69.2%
Combat Age: 31
Quality Perf. %: 93.3%
Last Quality Perf.: 2025-01-25
540 Metric: .786
Rating Points: 484
Highest Quarterly Ranking: 1/01/2025

#10 Lightweight
Last Fight Date: 1/25/2025 [Professional Fighters League]
Last Opponent: [#10 LW] Usman Nurmagomedov
Opponent's Last 5: W W NC W W
Next Fight: Professional Fighters League - PFL Europe 1: 2025 Regular Season
Next Opponent: [#45 LW] Bruno Miranda
Opponent's Last 5: W W L L W

Complete Professional MMA Fight History
Fighter rankings represent most recent generated quarterly rating prior to the fight

  Opponent Outcome
L Usman Nurmagomedov
#14 Lightweight 		Decision (Majority)
Round 5
  Professional Fighters League - PFL Road to...
Saturday, January 25th 2025
W A.J. McKee
#9 Lightweight 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
  PFL Super Fights - Battle of the Giants: B...
Saturday, October 19th 2024
W Bobby King
#189 Lightweight 		TKO (Punches and Elbows)
Round 2
  Bellator Champions Series Dublin - Jackson...
Saturday, June 22nd 2024
W Fabiano Silva
#304 Lightweight 		TKO (Knee and Elbows)
Round 1
  CW 170 - Cage Warriors 170: Dublin
Saturday, April 6th 2024
W Jan Quaeyhaegens
#285 Lightweight 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
  CW 161 - Cage Warriors 161: Dublin
Saturday, October 14th 2023
W Jordan Vucenic
#102 Featherweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 5
  CW 145 - Cage Warriors 145
Friday, November 4th 2022
W Morgan Charriere
#120 Featherweight 		Decision (Majority)
Round 5
  CW 128 - Cage Warriors 128
Friday, October 1st 2021
W James Hendin
#287 Featherweight 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
  Cage Warriors 120: Richardson vs. Kauppinen
Thursday, March 18th 2021
L Jordan Vucenic
#305 Featherweight 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
  CW 119 - Cage Warriors 119: The Trilogy St...
Saturday, December 12th 2020
W Aidan Stephen
#527 Lightweight 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 3
  CW 116 - Cage Warriors 116
Saturday, September 26th 2020
W Youri Panada KO (Head Kick)
Round 2
  CW 112 - Cage Warriors 112
Saturday, March 7th 2020
W Kalifa Seydi SUB
Round 1
  Cage Conflict 2: Hellraiser
Saturday, October 26th 2019
W Mateusz Makarowski Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
  Cage Warriors - Unplugged 2
Friday, September 6th 2019
W Stephen ONeill TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  CC 1 - Cage Conflict 1
Saturday, March 9th 2019
W Adam Gustab TKO (Punches)
Round 1
  BAMMA 28 - Parke vs. Redmond
Friday, February 24th 2017
  Opponent Event Outcome
L Usman Nurmagomedov
#14 Lightweight 		  Professional Fighters League - PFL Road to...
Saturday, January 25th 2025 		Decision (Majority)
Round 5
W A.J. McKee
#9 Lightweight 		  PFL Super Fights - Battle of the Giants: B...
Saturday, October 19th 2024 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
W Bobby King
#189 Lightweight 		  Bellator Champions Series Dublin - Jackson...
Saturday, June 22nd 2024 		TKO (Punches and Elbows)
Round 2
W Fabiano Silva
#304 Lightweight 		  CW 170 - Cage Warriors 170: Dublin
Saturday, April 6th 2024 		TKO (Knee and Elbows)
Round 1
W Jan Quaeyhaegens
#285 Lightweight 		  CW 161 - Cage Warriors 161: Dublin
Saturday, October 14th 2023 		KO (Punches)
Round 1
W Jordan Vucenic
#102 Featherweight 		  CW 145 - Cage Warriors 145
Friday, November 4th 2022 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 5
W Morgan Charriere
#120 Featherweight 		  CW 128 - Cage Warriors 128
Friday, October 1st 2021 		Decision (Majority)
Round 5
W James Hendin
#287 Featherweight 		  Cage Warriors 120: Richardson vs. Kauppinen
Thursday, March 18th 2021 		Decision (Unanimous)
Round 3
L Jordan Vucenic
#305 Featherweight 		  CW 119 - Cage Warriors 119: The Trilogy St...
Saturday, December 12th 2020 		Decision (Split)
Round 3
W Aidan Stephen
#527 Lightweight 		  CW 116 - Cage Warriors 116
Saturday, September 26th 2020 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 3
W Youri Panada   CW 112 - Cage Warriors 112
Saturday, March 7th 2020 		KO (Head Kick)
Round 2
W Kalifa Seydi   Cage Conflict 2: Hellraiser
Saturday, October 26th 2019 		SUB
Round 1
W Mateusz Makarowski   Cage Warriors - Unplugged 2
Friday, September 6th 2019 		Submission (Rear Naked Choke)
Round 1
W Stephen ONeill   CC 1 - Cage Conflict 1
Saturday, March 9th 2019 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1
W Adam Gustab   BAMMA 28 - Parke vs. Redmond
Friday, February 24th 2017 		TKO (Punches)
Round 1

Quarterly Generated Historical Rankings
Rating bar represents the fighter's standing relative to the top of the division at the time

Date ↑ ↓ Rank Record Points
01/01/2025 85 #10 Lightweight 13-1-0
552
10/01/2024 6 #95 Lightweight 12-1-0
121
07/01/2024 18 #101 Lightweight 12-1-0
121
04/01/2024 1 #119 Lightweight 10-1-0
92
01/01/2024 NR #120 Lightweight 10-1-0
92
10/01/2023 5 #92 Featherweight 9-1-0
92
07/01/2023   #87 Featherweight 9-1-0
92
04/01/2023 4 #87 Featherweight 9-1-0
92
01/01/2023 54 #83 Featherweight 9-1-0
92
10/01/2022 8 #137 Featherweight 8-1-0
66
07/01/2022 10 #129 Featherweight 8-1-0
66
04/01/2022 6 #139 Featherweight 8-1-0
66
01/01/2022 3 #133 Featherweight 8-1-0
66
10/01/2021 62 #130 Featherweight 8-1-0
66
07/01/2021 18 #192 Featherweight 7-1-0
48
04/01/2021 106 #174 Featherweight 7-1-0
48
01/01/2021 47 #280 Featherweight 6-1-0
37
10/01/2020 NR #233 Featherweight 6-0-0
43
07/01/2020 22 #516 Lightweight 5-0-0
28
04/01/2020 73 #538 Lightweight 5-0-0
28
01/01/2020 NR #611 Lightweight 4-0-0
25


A fighter's rank (US) state is assigned based on the state that the fighter most frequently fought in professionally, within the past three years. If there is a tie, the most recent state is used. The Win-Loss-Draw record for the fighter in the "Big Leagues". The Big Leagues refer to the top organizations based on a statistical analysis we performed. Some organizations were counted as one, due to mergers, etc. A quality performance is a fight in which the fighter fought an acceptable opponent, and substantiated their current rating (at the time) based on the outcome. At it's most basic level, one can equate "combat age" to "dog years" in that it will mirror the basic human lifecycle. With this computation, we expect fighters to hit their respective "peak" in the years that your typical adult "peaks" in life, somewhere between 25 and 40. We will expect most fighters to start their descent at some point in their 40s and be far removed from their peak by 60. This is an experimental metric that attempts to reflect a fighter's recent opposition quality. The metric goes back 1,080 days, and looks at all the fighter's opponents' W-L-D records within a window of 540 days before, and 540 days after their respective bout(s) with the fighter. All of the records are added up and the cumulative win percentage is presented by this metric in a "strength of schedule" format. These ranking sets have been generated by a recent version of the software, using recent data and will not match previously published issues of the rankings, especially since a majority of these generated sets are for dates much earlier than the site’s inception.
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