Izuru Takeuchi
25–11 · 42 recorded bouts · 1997–2009
Izuru Takeuchi finished 24% of 25 wins inside the distance — the 1st percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 71″ (180.3 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 2: middleweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Izuru Takeuchi, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
25–11
43 bouts on record
Finish rate
24%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 1st percentile
The career, bout by bout
42 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2009. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
13y
1997–2009
Longest unbeaten run
5
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2004
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
42
42 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | L | Ichiro Kanai | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | D | Takenori Sato | Draw | 3 |
| 2008 | L | Joe Doerksen | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2008 | W | Junior Santos | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Hiromitsu Kanehara | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Yuichi Nakanishi | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Bryan Rafiq | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Daisuke Watanabe | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Kyacey Uscola | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Yuichi Nakanishi | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | W | Hikaru Sato | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Yushin Okami | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Azat Askerov | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Myung Ho Bae | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Kozo Urita | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Hiromitsu Miura | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Nate Marquardt | Submission | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Yuji Hisamatsu | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Seiki Ryo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Mitsuhiro Ito | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | D | Osami Shibuya | Draw | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Kiuma Kunioku | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | D | Marcel Ferreira | Draw | 3 |
| 2003 | D | Eiji Ishikawa | Draw | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Kosei Kubota | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Nate Marquardt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Chris Lytle | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Nate Marquardt | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Dustin Denes | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Ronald Jhun | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | D | Martijn de Jong | Draw | 3 |
| 2000 | L | Patrick Fortrie | Decision | — |
| 2000 | W | Frederique Ferrera | Submission | — |
| 2000 | W | Florentim Amorim | Decision | — |
| 2000 | W | Shiko Yamashita | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | D | Ryuta Sakurai | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Ahmed Lazizi | Decision | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Nobuhiro Tsurumaki | Decision | 2 |
| 1998 | D | Ryuta Sakurai | Draw | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Yuki Sasaki | Decision | 2 |
| 1997 | L | Masanori Suda | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Motohiko Sugiyama | Decision | 2 |
14 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 304 lightweight 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: Izuru Takeuchi on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-02-08. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.