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Yuki Sasaki 佐々木有生

25–22 · 49 recorded bouts · 1998–2017

Yuki Sasaki 佐々木有生 finished 68% of 25 wins inside the distance — the 43rd percentile for welterweight MMA, where the median is 73%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height72″ (182.9 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionWelterweight MMA
competed at 2: middleweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Peak era2000s
CountryJapan

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Yuki Sasaki 佐々木有生, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2000 2010 win vs Kazuhiro Kusayanagi (1998)win vs Nobuhiro Tsurumaki (1998)win vs Izuru Takeuchi (1998)win vs Yasushi Warita (1998)loss vs Larry Papadopoulos (1999)win vs Ryuta Sakurai (1999)loss vs Martijn de Jong (2000)loss vs Masanori Suda (2000)win vs Ronald Jhun (2000)win vs Osami Shibuya (2001)win vs Daisuke Ishii (2001)win vs Jason DeLucia (2001)loss vs Ikuhisa Minowa (2001)win vs Daisuke Watanabe (2001)loss vs Rodrigo Gracie (2002)loss vs Ikuhisa Minowa (2002)win vs Alex Stiebling (2002)win vs John Glover (2002)draw vs Gustavo Machado (2002)win vs Keiichiro Yamamiya (2002)loss vs David Terrell (2003)win vs Heath Sims (2003)loss vs Daisuke Watanabe (2003)loss vs Ricardo Almeida (2003)win vs Yuya Shirai (2004)win vs Buck Meredith (2004)loss vs Fabio Leopoldo (2004)win vs Yukiya Naito (2004)win vs Takanori Kuno (2005)loss vs Gustavo Machado (2005)loss vs Dean Lister (2006)win vs Paul Taylor (2006)loss vs Leonardo Lucio Nascimento (2006)win vs Rodney Glunder (2006)win vs Bo Guk So (2007)loss vs Kazuhiro Nakamura (2008)win vs Yuki Kondo (2008)loss vs Jorge Santiago (2008)loss vs Sean Salmon (2009)loss vs Mamed Khalidov (2010)loss vs Paulo Filho (2010)loss vs Xavier Lucas (2010)win vs Hidetaka Monma (2011)draw vs Hiromitsu Kanehara (2012)loss vs Keita Nakamura (2012)win vs Ryul Kim (2013)win vs Hidenobu Koike (2015)loss vs Tahar Hadbi (2016)loss vs Glenn Sparv (2017)
winlossdraw / NC1998–2017

Record

MMA record

25–22

49 bouts on record

Finish rate

68%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 43rd percentile

KO/TKO: 2 (8%)Submission: 15 (60%)Decision: 8 (32%)
  • KO/TKO 8%
  • Submission 60%
  • Decision 32%

The career, bout by bout

49 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2017. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

20y

1998–2017

Longest unbeaten run

4

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2002

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

49

49 with a date

Fights

YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2017 L Glenn Sparv KO/TKO1
2016 L Tahar Hadbi Decision2
2015 W Hidenobu Koike Submission1
2013 W Ryul Kim Decision3
2012 D Hiromitsu Kanehara Draw3
2012 L Keita Nakamura Decision3
2011 W Hidetaka Monma Decision3
2010 L Mamed Khalidov KO/TKO1
2010 L Paulo Filho Decision3
2010 L Xavier Lucas KO/TKO5
2009 L Sean Salmon Decision1
2008 L Kazuhiro Nakamura Decision1
2008 W Yuki Kondo Submission2
2008 L Jorge Santiago Submission3
2007 W Bo Guk So Submission1
2006 L Dean Lister Decision3
2006 W Paul Taylor Submission1
2006 L Leonardo Lucio Nascimento Submission1
2006 W Rodney Glunder Submission1
2005 W Takanori Kuno KO/TKO1
2005 L Gustavo Machado Decision3
2004 W Yuya Shirai Decision3
2004 W Buck Meredith Submission2
2004 L Fabio Leopoldo Decision3
2004 W Yukiya Naito Decision3
2003 L David Terrell KO/TKO2
2003 W Heath Sims Decision3
2003 L Daisuke Watanabe KO/TKO1
2003 L Ricardo Almeida Decision3
2002 L Rodrigo Gracie Decision3
2002 L Ikuhisa Minowa Decision3
2002 W Alex Stiebling Decision3
2002 W John Glover Submission2
2002 D Gustavo Machado Draw3
2002 W Keiichiro Yamamiya Submission1
2001 W Osami Shibuya Submission3
2001 W Daisuke Ishii Submission1
2001 W Jason DeLucia Submission2
2001 L Ikuhisa Minowa Submission3
2001 W Daisuke Watanabe Submission1
2000 L Martijn de Jong Submission1
2000 L Masanori Suda Decision3
2000 W Ronald Jhun Submission3
1999 L Larry Papadopoulos Decision3
1999 W Ryuta Sakurai Submission1
1998 W Kazuhiro Kusayanagi KO/TKO1
1998 W Nobuhiro Tsurumaki Decision2
1998 W Izuru Takeuchi Decision2
1998 W Yasushi Warita Submission1

23 of these opponents have their own page here.

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 299 welterweight 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: Yuki Sasaki (mixed martial artist) on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2025-02-02. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.

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