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Masanori Kanehara

67″ reach · -1.45% reach advantage · 13th percentile

Masanori Kanehara has a reach of 67″ against a height of 68″ — a reach advantage of -1.45%, unusually short for bantamweight MMA and the 13th percentile of the 101 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

-1.45%

67″ reach on a 68″ frame

Compared against 101 bantamweight MMA fighters. Median 1.51%.

-2.9%bantamweight MMA reach advantage8.9%
Measurements
Reach67″ (170.2 cm)25th pct
Height68″ (172.7 cm)67th pct
Stance
DivisionBantamweight MMA
competed at 3: lightweight, featherweight, bantamweight — compared here against the last
Peak era2000s
CountryJapan

Record

MMA record

31–15

51 bouts on record

Finish rate

71%

of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight MMA median 68%, 57th percentile

KO/TKO: 11 (35%)Submission: 11 (35%)Decision: 9 (29%)
  • KO/TKO 35%
  • Submission 35%
  • Decision 29%

The career, bout by bout

48 recorded bouts from 2005 to 2025. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2010 2020 loss vs Shinya Sato (2005)draw vs Norimasa Isozaki (2005)draw vs Hiroyuki Ota (2005)draw vs Masayuki Okude (2005)win vs Taro Himura (2006)win vs Kenichi Ito (2006)draw vs Hiroyuki Ota (2006)win vs Hisashi Hiyama (2006)win vs Toshiyuki Saito (2006)draw vs Naoyuki Kotani (2007)win vs Yoichiro Karsuyama (2007)loss vs Tashiro Nishiuchi (2007)win vs Arunas Jurgelenas (2007)win vs Tetsu Suzuki (2007)win vs Shinya Sato (2007)loss vs Takafumi Otsuka (2008)win vs Isamu Sugiuchi (2008)loss vs Erikas Petraitis (2008)win vs Shunichi Shimizu (2008)win vs Norifumi Yamamoto (2009)win vs Michihiro Omigawa (2009)win vs Jung Chan-sung (2009)win vs Kim Jong-man (2009)win vs Kenji Arai (2009)loss vs Yoshiro Maeda (2010)loss vs Marlon Sandro (2010)win vs Brady Harrison (2011)loss vs Rasul Mirzaev (2011)win vs Motoshi Miyaji (2011)win vs Tom McKenna (2012)win vs Tony Reyes (2012)win vs Jake Hattan (2012)win vs Joe Pearson (2013)win vs Wade Choate (2013)win vs Alex Caceres (2014)loss vs Toshiaki Kitada (2014)loss vs Rani Yahya (2015)win vs Charlie Alaniz (2016)loss vs Michael McDonald (2016)win vs Jomhod Chuwattana (2018)loss vs Victor Henry (2020)win vs Takahiro Ashida (2021)win vs Kazumasa Majima (2022)win vs Kleber Koike Erbst (2023)win vs Sora Yamamoto (2023)loss vs Chihiro Suzuki (2024)loss vs YA-MAN (2025)
winlossdraw / NC2005–2025

Career span

21y

2005–2025

Longest unbeaten run

7

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2007

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

48

47 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2025 L YA-MAN KO/TKO3
2024 L Chihiro Suzuki KO/TKO1
2023 W Kleber Koike Erbst Decision3
2023 W Sora Yamamoto Decision3
2022 W Kazumasa Majima KO/TKO3
2021 W Takahiro Ashida KO/TKO2
2020 L Victor Henry KO/TKO2
2018 W Jomhod Chuwattana Submission1
2016 W Charlie Alaniz KO/TKO1
2016 L Michael McDonald Submission2
2015 L Rani Yahya Decision3
2014 W Alex Caceres Decision3
2014 L Toshiaki Kitada DQ1
2013 W Joe Pearson KO/TKO1
2013 W Wade Choate Submission1
2012 W Tom McKenna KO/TKO1
2012 W Tony Reyes KO/TKO1
2012 W Jake Hattan Submission1
2011 W Brady Harrison Submission3
2011 L Rasul Mirzaev KO/TKO1
2011 W Motoshi Miyaji KO/TKO2
2010 L Yoshiro Maeda KO/TKO1
2010 L Marlon Sandro KO/TKO1
2009 W Norifumi Yamamoto Decision3
2009 W Michihiro Omigawa Decision3
2009 W Jung Chan-sung Decision3
2009 W Kim Jong-man Decision3
2009 W Kenji Arai KO/TKO1
2008 L Takafumi Otsuka Decision2
2008 W Isamu Sugiuchi KO/TKO1
2008 L Erikas Petraitis Decision2
2008 W Shunichi Shimizu Submission2
2007 D Naoyuki Kotani Draw2
2007 W Yoichiro Karsuyama Submission1
2007 L Tashiro Nishiuchi KO/TKO1
2007 W Arunas Jurgelenas Submission1
2007 W Tetsu Suzuki Decision2
2007 W Shinya Sato Submission1
2006 W Taro Himura Submission1
2006 W Kenichi Ito KO/TKO2
2006 D Hiroyuki Ota Draw2
2006 W Hisashi Hiyama Submission1
2006 W Toshiyuki Saito KO/TKO1
2005 L Shinya Sato Submission2
2005 D Norimasa Isozaki Draw2
2005 D Hiroyuki Ota Draw2
2005 D Masayuki Okude Draw2
L Hatsu Hioki Decision

15 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 101 bantamweight 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: Masanori Kanehara on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-10. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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