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Tatsuro Taira vs Kyoji HoriguchiFantasy matchup — not a booked fight

#4 at Flyweight · #5 at Flyweight
Not a booked fightFANTASY MATCHUP — this fight is not booked. What our two blind models would say if it were.
Tatsuro Taira
UFC 8-2 · Pro 18-2
#4 at Flyweight
VS
Kyoji Horiguchi
UFC 9-2 · Pro 36-6
#5 at Flyweight

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Tatsuro Taira 65% Kyoji Horiguchi 35%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Tatsuro Taira at 65% — a clear lean.

Our two reads agree, and closely. Both land on Tatsuro Taira — 65% on the first, 64% on the second, 1 point apart.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 58%.

KO/TKO
22%
Submission
21%
Decision
58%
These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Tatsuro Taira vs Kyoji Horiguchi — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 8-2UFC recordUFC 9-2
18-2Pro record36-6
5' 7"Height5' 4"
70"▲Reach63"
OrthodoxStanceOrthodox
26Age35
125 lbs.Weight125 lbs.
JapanNationalityJapan
Naha, OkinawaHometownTakasaki, Gunma
The Blackbelt JapanFighting out ofAmerican Top Team
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Tatsuro Taira (left) vs Kyoji Horiguchi (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min
2.87
vs
3.64
Striking accuracy
54%
vs
47%
Strikes absorbed / min
3.1
vs
2.08
Striking defence
44%
vs
64%
Takedowns / 15 min
3.57
vs
1.67
Takedown accuracy
43%
vs
40%
Takedown defence
46%
vs
61%
Sub attempts / 15 min
1.3
vs
0.1
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Tatsuro Taira and Kyoji Horiguchi have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

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