Wataru Sakata
13–14 · 26 recorded bouts · 1995–2016
Wataru Sakata finished 77% of 13 wins inside the distance — the 46th 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 | 68.9″ (175 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Wataru Sakata, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
13–14
27 bouts on record
Finish rate
77%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 46th percentile
The career, bout by bout
26 recorded bouts from 1995 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
1995–2016
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1999
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
26
25 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | L | Hayato Sakurai | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Daniel Gracie | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Mario Sperry | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Toro Irison | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Kosei Kubota | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Adrian Serrano | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Ryushi Yanagisawa | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Dave Menne | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Gustavo Machado | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Mansour Heidari | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Branden Lee Hinkle | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Renzo Gracie | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Chris Watts | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Hiromitsu Kanehara | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Borislav Jeliazkov | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Sean Alvarez | Decision | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Dick Vrij | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Chris Haseman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Kenichi Yamamoto | Decision | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Willie Peeters | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Valentijn Overeem | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Sean McCully | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Willie Peeters | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Mikhail Ilyukhin | Submission | — |
| 1995 | L | Tsuyoshi Kosaka | Submission | — |
| — | W | Dick Vrij | KO/TKO | — |
19 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 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: Wataru Sakata on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-06-22. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.