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Tatsuya Kawajiri

69″ reach · +3.12% reach advantage · 69th percentile

Tatsuya Kawajiri has a reach of 69″ against a height of 66.9″ — a reach advantage of +3.12%, above average for featherweight MMA and the 69th percentile of the 119 compared here.

Reach in context

Reach advantage

+3.12%

69″ reach on a 66.9″ frame

Compared against 119 featherweight MMA fighters. Median 2.75%.

-1.5%featherweight MMA reach advantage8.2%
Measurements
Reach69″ (175.3 cm)29th pct
Height66.9″ (170 cm)24th pct
Stance
DivisionFeatherweight MMA
competed at 3: welterweight, lightweight, featherweight — compared here against the last
Peak era2000s
CountryJapan

Record

MMA record

36–14

52 bouts on record

Finish rate

61%

of wins ended inside the distance — featherweight MMA median 65%, 41st percentile

KO/TKO: 12 (33%)Submission: 10 (28%)Decision: 14 (39%)
  • KO/TKO 33%
  • Submission 28%
  • Decision 39%

The career, bout by bout

55 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2019. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2000 2010 loss vs Takumi Nakayama (2000)win vs Kazumichi Takada (2001)win vs Yohei Suzuki (2001)loss vs Vítor Ribeiro (2002)win vs Ken Omatsu (2002)win vs Tsutomu Shiiki (2002)win vs Daisuke Sugie (2002)win vs Takeshi Yamazaki (2002)win vs Masaya Takita (2002)win vs Ryan Bow (2003)win vs Yves Edwards (2003)win vs Takumi Nakayama (2003)win vs Vítor Ribeiro (2004)win vs Mindaugas Laurinaitis (2004)draw vs Caol Uno (2004)loss vs Takanori Gomi (2005)win vs Luiz Firmino (2005)win vs In Seok Kim (2005)win vs Jani Lax (2005)loss vs Gilbert Melendez (2006)win vs Per Eklund (2006)win vs Chris Brennan (2006)win vs Charles Bennett (2006)win vs Joachim Hansen (2006)win vs Luiz Azeredo (2007)loss vs Eddie Alvarez (2008)win vs Luiz Firmino (2008)win vs Kultar Gill (2008)win vs Kozo Takeda (2008)win vs Kazunori Yokota (2009)win vs Melchor Manibusan (2009)win vs Gesias Cavalcante (2009)win vs Ross Ebañez (2009)loss vs Masato Kobayashi (2009)win vs Josh Thomson (2010)loss vs Shinya Aoki (2010)win vs Kazuyuki Miyata (2011)win vs Joachim Hansen (2011)win vs Drew Fickett (2011)loss vs Gilbert Melendez (2011)win vs Michihiro Omigawa (2012)win vs Donald Sanchez (2012)loss vs Clay Guida (2014)win vs Sean Soriano (2014)win vs Kiren Handa (2014)win vs Jason Knight (2015)win vs Dennis Siver (2015)loss vs Kron Gracie (2016)loss vs Cub Swanson (2016)loss vs Dennis Bermudez (2016)loss vs Gabriel Oliveira (2017)win vs Anthony Birchak (2017)loss vs Satoru Kitaoka (2018)loss vs Patricky Freire (2019)win vs Ali Abdulkhalikov (2019)
winlossdraw / NC2000–2019

Career span

20y

2000–2019

Longest unbeaten run

10

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2002

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

55

55 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2019 L Patricky Freire KO/TKO1
2019 W Ali Abdulkhalikov Decision3
2018 L Satoru Kitaoka Decision3
2017 L Gabriel Oliveira KO/TKO2
2017 W Anthony Birchak Decision2
2016 L Kron Gracie Submission2
2016 L Cub Swanson Decision3
2016 L Dennis Bermudez Decision3
2015 W Jason Knight Decision3
2015 W Dennis Siver Decision3
2014 L Clay Guida Decision3
2014 W Sean Soriano Submission2
2014 W Kiren Handa Decision3
2012 W Michihiro Omigawa Decision3
2012 W Donald Sanchez Submission1
2011 W Kazuyuki Miyata Submission2
2011 W Joachim Hansen Submission3
2011 W Drew Fickett KO/TKO1
2011 L Gilbert Melendez KO/TKO1
2010 W Josh Thomson Decision3
2010 L Shinya Aoki Submission1
2009 W Kazunori Yokota Decision3
2009 W Melchor Manibusan KO/TKO1
2009 W Gesias Cavalcante Decision2
2009 W Ross Ebañez Submission1
2009 L Masato Kobayashi KO/TKO2
2008 L Eddie Alvarez KO/TKO1
2008 W Luiz Firmino Decision2
2008 W Kultar Gill Decision2
2008 W Kozo Takeda
2007 W Luiz Azeredo Decision2
2006 L Gilbert Melendez Decision2
2006 W Per Eklund KO/TKO1
2006 W Chris Brennan KO/TKO1
2006 W Charles Bennett Submission1
2006 W Joachim Hansen DQ1
2005 L Takanori Gomi Submission1
2005 W Luiz Firmino Decision2
2005 W In Seok Kim KO/TKO1
2005 W Jani Lax KO/TKO1
2004 W Vítor Ribeiro KO/TKO2
2004 W Mindaugas Laurinaitis KO/TKO2
2004 D Caol Uno Draw3
2003 W Ryan Bow KO/TKO1
2003 W Yves Edwards Decision3
2003 W Takumi Nakayama KO/TKO1
2002 L Vítor Ribeiro Decision3
2002 W Ken Omatsu Submission1
2002 W Tsutomu Shiiki Submission1
2002 W Daisuke Sugie KO/TKO2
2002 W Takeshi Yamazaki Decision2
2002 W Masaya Takita KO/TKO2
2001 W Kazumichi Takada Submission1
2001 W Yohei Suzuki Submission1
2000 L Takumi Nakayama Submission1

30 of these opponents have their own page here.

Records in more than one sport

Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Tatsuya Kawajiri competed in 2, so the records sit together here.

DisciplineWonLostBy KO
MMA361412
Kickboxing211

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 119 featherweight 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: Tatsuya Kawajiri on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-19. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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