Yuichi Watanabe
6–3 · 9 recorded bouts · 1989–1992
Yuichi Watanabe finished 83% of 6 wins inside the distance — the 76th 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 | 68″ (172.7 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA | |
| Peak era | 1980s | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Yuichi Watanabe, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
6–3
9 bouts on record
Finish rate
83%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 76th percentile
The career, bout by bout
9 recorded bouts from 1989 to 1992. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
4y
1989–1992
Longest unbeaten run
4
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1991
3 bouts
Recorded bouts
9
9 with a date
Fights
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | W | Naoki Sakurada | Submission | 3 |
| 1992 | W | Tomonori Ohara | Submission | 1 |
| 1991 | L | Naoki Sakurada | Submission | 5 |
| 1991 | W | Kazuhiro Kusayanagi | Submission | 1 |
| 1991 | W | Tomonori Ohara | Decision | 5 |
| 1990 | L | Yuji Ito | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1990 | W | Kazuhiro Sakamoto | Submission | 2 |
| 1989 | L | Naoki Sakurada | Submission | 1 |
| 1989 | W | Yuji Ito | Submission | 1 |
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: Yuichi Watanabe on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-19. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.