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Akihiro Murayama 村山暁弘

25–15 · 48 recorded bouts · 2003–2025

Akihiro Murayama 村山暁弘 finished 48% of 25 wins inside the distance — the 11th percentile for welterweight MMA, where the median is 73%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height70″ (177.8 cm)
Stance
DivisionWelterweight MMA
competed at 3: light heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Peak era2000s
CountryJapan

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

2010 2020 draw vs Shinpei Sotoyama (2003)win vs Kenji Nagai (2003)loss vs Petras Markevicius (2004)draw vs Wataru Takahashi (2004)win vs Dai Moriyama (2004)loss vs Ryuhei Sato (2004)win vs Masashi Yozen (2005)win vs Yoshinori Ashikawa (2005)win vs Nobuyuki Shimakawa (2005)draw vs Akihiko Adachi (2006)draw vs Osami Shibuya (2006)win vs Makoto Maeda (2007)win vs Akihiko Adachi (2007)win vs Seiji Furukawa (2007)loss vs Rikuhei Fujii (2008)win vs Hiroki Sato (2008)loss vs Yoichiro Sato (2009)draw vs Ikkei Nagamura (2009)win vs Kang Jung-min (2010)loss vs Kenta Takagi (2010)win vs Keita Nakamura (2011)win vs Yoichiro Sato (2011)draw vs Sojiro Orui (2012)draw vs Yuya Shirai (2013)win vs Yuki Kondo (2013)draw vs Takenori Sato (2013)win vs Yuta Nakamura (2013)win vs Shingo Suzuki (2014)loss vs Gota Yamashita (2014)win vs Thiago Gonçalves (2014)win vs Kosei Kubota (2015)win vs Daniel Roberts (2015)loss vs Hiromitsu Miura (2016)win vs Shingo Suzuki (2016)loss vs Takashi Sato (2017)loss vs Hiroyuki Tetsuka (2018)win vs Takaaki Nara (2018)loss vs J.J. Ambrose (2019)win vs Masayuki Kikuiri (2020)win vs Yuki Kondo (2020)loss vs Masayuki Kikuiri (2021)win vs Hiroki Nagaoka (2022)loss vs Yusaku Kinoshita (2022)loss vs Genpei Hayashi (2023)win vs Takahiro Kawanaka (2024)loss vs Kota Shirakawa (2024)loss vs Spike Carlyle (2025)win vs Hiroki Nagaoka (2025)
winlossdraw / NC2003–2025

Record

MMA record

25–15

49 bouts on record

Finish rate

48%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 11th percentile

KO/TKO: 6 (24%)Submission: 6 (24%)Decision: 13 (52%)
  • KO/TKO 24%
  • Submission 24%
  • Decision 52%

The career, bout by bout

48 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

23y

2003–2025

Longest unbeaten run

6

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2004

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

48

48 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2025 L Spike Carlyle KO/TKO1
2025 W Hiroki Nagaoka Decision3
2024 W Takahiro Kawanaka Decision3
2024 L Kota Shirakawa Decision3
2023 L Genpei Hayashi Decision5
2022 W Hiroki Nagaoka Decision3
2022 L Yusaku Kinoshita KO/TKO1
2021 L Masayuki Kikuiri Decision5
2020 W Masayuki Kikuiri Decision3
2020 W Yuki Kondo Decision3
2019 L J.J. Ambrose Decision3
2018 L Hiroyuki Tetsuka Decision3
2018 W Takaaki Nara Submission1
2017 L Takashi Sato KO/TKO1
2016 L Hiromitsu Miura Decision5
2016 W Shingo Suzuki KO/TKO4
2015 W Kosei Kubota Decision3
2015 W Daniel Roberts Decision3
2014 W Shingo Suzuki KO/TKO3
2014 L Gota Yamashita Decision3
2014 W Thiago Gonçalves Decision3
2013 D Yuya Shirai Draw3
2013 W Yuki Kondo Decision3
2013 D Takenori Sato Draw3
2013 W Yuta Nakamura Decision2
2012 D Sojiro Orui Draw3
2011 W Keita Nakamura Submission1
2011 W Yoichiro Sato Decision3
2010 W Kang Jung-min Submission1
2010 L Kenta Takagi KO/TKO1
2009 L Yoichiro Sato Decision2
2009 D Ikkei Nagamura Draw3
2008 L Rikuhei Fujii Decision3
2008 W Hiroki Sato Decision2
2007 W Makoto Maeda KO/TKO1
2007 W Akihiko Adachi Submission2
2007 W Seiji Furukawa Submission1
2006 D Akihiko Adachi Draw2
2006 D Osami Shibuya Draw2
2005 W Masashi Yozen Decision2
2005 W Yoshinori Ashikawa KO/TKO1
2005 W Nobuyuki Shimakawa KO/TKO1
2004 L Petras Markevicius Decision2
2004 D Wataru Takahashi Draw2
2004 W Dai Moriyama KO/TKO2
2004 L Ryuhei Sato Decision2
2003 D Shinpei Sotoyama Draw2
2003 W Kenji Nagai Submission1

5 of these opponents have their own page here.

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 299 welterweight 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: Akihiro Murayama on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-02-22. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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