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Daijiro Matsui 松井大二郎

12–30 · 55 recorded bouts · 1998–2021

Daijiro Matsui 松井大二郎 finished 25% of 12 wins inside the distance — the 1st percentile for middleweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height68.9″ (175 cm)
Stance
DivisionMiddleweight MMA
competed at 2: light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last
Peak era1990s
CountryJapan

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Daijiro Matsui 松井大二郎, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2000 2010 2020 draw vs Sanae Kikuta (1998)draw vs Akira Shoji (1998)loss vs Wanderlei Silva (1999)win vs Bob Schrijber (1999)loss vs Carlos Newton (1999)loss vs Amir Rahnavardi (2000)loss vs Vitor Belfort (2000)loss vs Todd Medina (2000)loss vs Igor Vovchanchyn (2000)win vs Quinton Jackson (2001)loss vs Murilo Rua (2001)loss vs Ebenezer Fontes Braga (2001)win vs Jose Landi-Jons (2001)win vs Rick Kerns (2001)win vs Kazuki Okubo (2002)win vs Rory Singer (2002)loss vs Jerrel Venetiaan (2002)loss vs Rodrigo Gracie (2002)loss vs Paulo Filho (2004)loss vs Ryo Chonan (2004)draw vs Alex Reid (2005)win vs Daisuke Watanabe (2005)draw vs Elvis Sinosic (2005)loss vs Brian Foster (2005)loss vs Flavio Luiz Moura (2006)loss vs Yuki Kondo (2006)loss vs Pierre Guillet (2006)win vs Curtis Stout (2006)loss vs Carlos Toyota (2007)loss vs Mark Weir (2007)win vs Tom Watson (2007)loss vs Ichiro Kanai (2008)loss vs Lee Eun-Soo (2008)loss vs Yuichi Nakanishi (2008)win vs Young Choi (2008)win vs Il Chul Park (2009)loss vs Daniel Madrid (2009)loss vs Min Suk Heo (2009)win vs Tomoaki Hata (2010)loss vs Dool Hee Lee (2010)draw vs Hiroki Ozaki (2011)loss vs Eiji Ishikawa (2012)draw vs Hiromitsu Kanehara (2012)loss vs Toshikazu Suzuki (2013)loss vs Kazuhiro Nakamura (2013)loss vs Keiichiro Yamamiya (2013)win vs Koji Yamade (2016)win vs Tetsuo Kondo (2016)draw vs Tomoya Suzuki (2016)win vs Hideaki Sumi (2016)loss vs Hiroki Tanaka (2017)loss vs Dae Hwan Kim (2017)win vs Genya Waku (2017)loss vs Young Choi (2021)
winlossdraw / NC1998–2021

Record

MMA record

12–30

49 bouts on record

Finish rate

25%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 1st percentile

KO/TKO: 2 (17%)Submission: 1 (8%)Decision: 9 (75%)
  • KO/TKO 17%
  • Submission 8%
  • Decision 75%

The career, bout by bout

55 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2021. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

24y

1998–2021

Longest unbeaten run

4

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2001

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

55

54 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2021 L Young Choi KO/TKO1
2017 L Hiroki Tanaka Decision3
2017 L Dae Hwan Kim KO/TKO1
2017 W Genya Waku Decision2
2016 W Koji Yamade Decision2
2016 W Tetsuo Kondo KO/TKO1
2016 D Tomoya Suzuki Draw2
2016 W Hideaki Sumi KO/TKO1
2013 L Toshikazu Suzuki Decision2
2013 L Kazuhiro Nakamura KO/TKO1
2013 L Keiichiro Yamamiya Decision1
2012 L Eiji Ishikawa Decision2
2012 D Hiromitsu Kanehara Draw2
2011 D Hiroki Ozaki Draw2
2010 W Tomoaki Hata Decision2
2010 L Dool Hee Lee Decision2
2009 W Il Chul Park Decision2
2009 L Daniel Madrid Submission2
2009 L Min Suk Heo KO/TKO1
2008 L Ichiro Kanai Submission1
2008 L Lee Eun-Soo Decision3
2008 L Yuichi Nakanishi Decision2
2008 W Young Choi Decision3
2007 L Carlos Toyota KO/TKO2
2007 L Mark Weir Decision3
2007 W Tom Watson Submission1
2006 L Flavio Luiz Moura Decision3
2006 L Yuki Kondo Decision3
2006 L Pierre Guillet KO/TKO2
2006 W Curtis Stout Decision3
2005 D Alex Reid Draw3
2005 W Daisuke Watanabe KO/TKO2
2005 D Elvis Sinosic Draw2
2005 L Brian Foster KO/TKO1
2004 L Paulo Filho Decision3
2004 L Ryo Chonan Decision3
2002 W Kazuki Okubo Decision3
2002 W Rory Singer Decision2
2002 L Jerrel Venetiaan Decision3
2002 L Rodrigo Gracie Submission3
2001 W Quinton Jackson DQ1
2001 L Murilo Rua KO/TKO3
2001 L Ebenezer Fontes Braga Decision3
2001 W Jose Landi-Jons Decision3
2001 W Rick Kerns Decision2
2000 L Amir Rahnavardi Decision3
2000 L Vitor Belfort Decision2
2000 L Todd Medina Decision2
2000 L Igor Vovchanchyn KO/TKO1
1999 L Wanderlei Silva Decision2
1999 W Bob Schrijber DQ1
1999 L Carlos Newton Decision3
1998 D Sanae Kikuta Draw3
1998 D Akira Shoji Draw4
D Hiromitsu Kanehara Draw

19 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 244 middleweight 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: Daijiro Matsui on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-06-03. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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