Naoya Uematsu
15–8 · 25 recorded bouts · 1997–2008
Naoya Uematsu finished 80% of 15 wins inside the distance — the 70th 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 | 64″ (162.6 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 3: bantamweight, featherweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Naoya Uematsu, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
15–8
25 bouts on record
Finish rate
80%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 70th percentile
The career, bout by bout
25 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2008. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
12y
1997–2008
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1999
4 bouts
Recorded bouts
25
25 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | L | Daiki Hata | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | James Doolan | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Marcos Galvao | Decision | 3 |
| 2006 | L | Urijah Faber | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Kenji Osawa | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | L | Gilbert Melendez | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Hideki Kadowaki | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Jens Pulver | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Katsuya Toida | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | W | Jin Kazeta | Submission | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Joao Roque | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Bao Quach | Decision | 2 |
| 2002 | D | Kazuhiro Inoue | Draw | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Mike Cardoso | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Noboru Asahi | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Joey Gilbert | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Kimihito Nonaka | Submission | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Ryan Diaz | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Eric Payne | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Mamoru Okochi | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 1998 | D | Kimihito Nonaka | Draw | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Katsuya Toida | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Caol Uno | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Mitsuo Matsumoto | Decision | 2 |
| 1997 | W | Takashi Ochi | Submission | 1 |
10 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: Naoya Uematsu on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-03-15. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.