Ryūshi Yanagisawa
24–25 · 64 recorded bouts · 1993–2009
Ryūshi Yanagisawa finished 79% of 24 wins inside the distance — the 51st percentile for light heavyweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: heavyweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Peak era | 1990s | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Ryūshi Yanagisawa, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
24–25
58 bouts on record
Finish rate
79%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 51st percentile
The career, bout by bout
64 recorded bouts from 1993 to 2009. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
1993–2009
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1996
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
64
64 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | L | Lee Dool-Hee | Decision | 2 |
| 2009 | L | Bernard Ackah | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Kim Young-Hyun | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Ryuta Noji | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Chalid Arrab | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Fedor Emelianenko | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Bobby Hoffman | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Wataru Sakata | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Tatsufumi Tomihira | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2001 | D | Nobuaki Kakuda | Draw | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Takashi Sonoda | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2000 | L | Ibragim Magomedov | Decision | — |
| 2000 | L | Randy Couture | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Borislav Jeliazkov | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Sanae Kikuta | Decision | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Musashi | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | L | Bob Stines | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Akira Shoji | Draw | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Leon Dijk | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Takafumi Ito | Draw | 2 |
| 1999 | L | Jason DeLucia | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Manabu Yamada | Draw | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Satoshi Hasegawa | Draw | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Evan Tanner | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Kosei Kubota | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Guy Mezger | Decision | 1 |
| 1998 | D | Yuki Kondo | Draw | 1 |
| 1998 | D | Keiichiro Yamamiya | Draw | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Omar Bouiche | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Jason DeLucia | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Jason Godsey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | John Lober | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Les Johnston | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Paul Varelans | Decision | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Keiichiro Yamamiya | Decision | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Paul Lazenby | Decision | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Kim Jong-Wang | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Edward Thurston | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Jack McGlaughlin | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | D | Takafumi Ito | Draw | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Semmy Schilt | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Guy Mezger | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Kazuo Takahashi | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Takaku Fuke | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Oleg Taktarov | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Vernon White | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Larry Papadopoulos | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Frank Shamrock | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Masakatsu Funaki | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | L | Bas Rutten | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | D | Guy Mezger | Draw | 1 |
| 1995 | L | Jason DeLucia | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | L | Takafumi Ito | Decision | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Gregory Smit | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Christopher DeWeaver | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | L | Ken Shamrock | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Todd Bjornethun | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | James Mathews | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Vernon White | KO/TKO | 1 |
Showing the 60 most recent of 64 recorded bouts.
24 of these opponents have their own page here.
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Ryūshi Yanagisawa competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 24 | 25 | 4 |
| Kickboxing | 2 | 6 | 2 |
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 183 light 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: Ryūshi Yanagisawa on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-01-21. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.