Akira Shoji
14–18 · 38 recorded bouts · 1996–2026
Akira Shoji finished 50% of 14 wins inside the distance — the 5th percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68″ (172.7 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, light heavyweight, heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Akira Shoji, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
14–18
37 bouts on record
Finish rate
50%
of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 5th percentile
The career, bout by bout
38 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
31y
1996–2026
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2000
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
38
37 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | L | Hideki Sekine | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Kazuo Misaki | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Gilbert Yvel | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Carlos Toyota | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Kyacey Uscola | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Todd Medina | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Kazuo Misaki | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Mark Weir | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Dean Lister | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Paulo Filho | Decision | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Yukio Kawabe | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Murilo Rua | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Maurício Rua | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Dustin Denes | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Alex Stiebling | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Paulo Filho | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | W | David Roberts | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Jeremy Horn | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Semmy Schilt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Dan Henderson | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2000 | L | Ricardo Almeida | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Herman Renting | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | John Renken | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Mark Coleman | Decision | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Ebenezer Fontes Braga | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Ryushi Yanagisawa | Draw | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Larry Parker | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Guy Mezger | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | L | Igor Vovchanchyn | Decision | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Wallid Ismail | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | D | Adriano de Souza | Draw | 3 |
| 1998 | D | Daijiro Matsui | Draw | 4 |
| 1998 | W | Juan Mott | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | D | Renzo Gracie | Draw | 3 |
| 1997 | L | Kaichi Tsuji | Decision | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Vidal Serradilla | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | D | Manabu Ohara | Draw | 1 |
| — | D | Manabu Ohara | Draw | — |
21 of these opponents have their own page here.
How this is worked out
- Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 324 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
Source: Akira Shoji on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-03-16. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.