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Heavyweight MMA · 1990s

Akebono

0–4 · 11 recorded bouts · 2004–2015

Akebono has 11 recorded bouts between 2004 and 2015, a career spanning 12 years, and a longest unbeaten run of 1.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height79.9″ (203 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
Peak era1990s
CountryJapan

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Akebono, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2010 loss vs Remy Bonjasky (2004)loss vs Rick Roufus (2004)loss vs Zhang Qingjun (2004)loss vs Musashi (2004)loss vs Choi Hong-man (2005)win vs Nobuaki Kakuda (2005)loss vs Choi Hong-man (2006)loss vs Bob Sapp (2015)
winlossdraw / NC2004–2015

Record

MMA record

0–4

4 bouts on record

The career, bout by bout

11 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

12y

2004–2015

Longest unbeaten run

1

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2004

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

11

8 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2015 L Bob Sapp Decision2
2006 L Choi Hong-man KO/TKO2
2005 L Choi Hong-man KO/TKO1
2005 W Nobuaki Kakuda Decision3
2004 L Remy Bonjasky KO/TKO3
2004 L Rick Roufus Decision3
2004 L Zhang Qingjun Decision4
2004 L Musashi Decision3
L Submission 1
L Decision 5
L Bob Sapp KO/TKO2003

3 of these opponents have their own page here.

Records in more than one sport

Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Akebono competed in 2, so the records sit together here.

DisciplineWonLostBy KO
MMA4
Kickboxing19

How this is worked out

  1. Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
  2. Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
  3. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 362 heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Full methodology →

Source: Akebono Tarō on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-08-03. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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