Gavin Hughes
EnglandGavin Hughes, “Big Tasty”, is a Lightweight from England with an official record of 11-5. Cage Brothers holds 14 of those bouts: 9 wins and 5 losses, the wins coming 4 by knockout, 4 by submission and 1 by decision. The most recent bout on file is a decision loss to Claudio Pacella at 2025 PFL Europe Regular Season: Belfast on 10 May 2025.
| Date | Opponent | Result | Method | Round | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2025 | Claudio Pacella | LOSS | DECDecision - Unanimous | R3 · 5:00 | 2025 PFL Europe Regular Season: Belfast |
| Sep 21, 2024 | Dean Trueman | WIN | SUBSubmission (Guillotine) | R2 | CW 178: Cage Warriors 178 |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Chris Bungard | LOSS | DECDecision - Split | R3 | CW 152: Cage Warriors 152 |
| May 6, 2022 | Yves Landu | LOSS | KOBody Shot | R1 · 3:01 | Bellator 280: Bader vs. Kongo 2 |
| Sep 26, 2020 | Daniele Scatizzi | LOSS | SUBGuillotine Choke | R1 · 1:41 | Bellator Europe: Edwards vs. van Steenis |
| May 4, 2019 | Mohammad Yahya | WIN | SUBSubmission (Rear Naked Choke) | R2 · 4:51 | Bellator Europe: Primus vs. Wilde |
| Mar 31, 2018 | Martin van Staden | LOSS | KOKO/TKO | R2 · 0:20 | EFC 68: EFC Worldwide 68 |
| Nov 4, 2017 | Deon Bruning | WIN | DECDecision - Unanimous | R3 | EFC 65: EFC Worldwide 65 |
| May 12, 2017 | Danny Nash | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R2 · 1:31 | TFC: Tanko Fighting Championships 4 |
| Apr 16, 2017 | Joe Barnett | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 | Aeron MMA FC 1: Dawn of the Dragon |
| Oct 1, 2016 | Chris Bungard | WIN | SUBSubmission (Guillotine) | R1 · 3:44 | ACB 47: Braveheart |
| May 21, 2016 | Tom Pedreno | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 | ICE FC: ICE Fighting Championships 14 |
| Feb 20, 2016 | Manuel Bernal | WIN | KOKO/TKO | R1 · - | ICE FC: ICE Fighting Championships 11 |
| Dec 5, 2015 | Alejandro Kratz-Ferrer | WIN | SUBSubmission (Guillotine) | R1 · 0:32 | ICE FC: ICE Fighting Championship 10 |
Wins, losses and draws are Gavin Hughes’s official record. Everything else is counted from the 14 bouts we hold a full result for — method, round and time. Per-fight striking and grappling statistics are not published in our data source, so they are not shown.
Gavin Hughes’s record, in numbers
Gavin Hughes’s official record is 11-5. Every figure on this page is counted instead from the 14 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for — 9 wins, 5 losses — because 2 bouts from the official record are not in the history we hold.
The 9 wins break down as 4 by knockout, 4 by submission and 1 by decision — 8 of 9 inside the distance, a finish rate of 89%. Across the 13 of 14 bouts with a recorded finishing round, the average bout lasted 5 minutes 26 seconds.
Gavin Hughes has been stopped 3 times in the 14 bouts on file — 2 by knockout and 1 by submission — which is 21% of them.
Of the 14 bouts Cage Brothers holds a result for, 1 was the main event of the card. One of them has come since October 2024.
Set against the 623 Lightweight fighters Cage Brothers holds eight or more bouts for, Gavin Hughes has a finish rate above 85% of them, a record of avoiding stoppage above 32% of them and a two-year bout count above 64% of them. The comparison is made inside the division rather than across the whole roster, because how often a division finishes depends heavily on what it weighs.
Gavin Hughes is listed at 5ft 10in with a reach of 69in.
These figures are recomputed from Gavin Hughes’s bout history each time results are synced, so they follow the record rather than a fixed snapshot.