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Kanako Murata
12-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Kanako Murata’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record12-3
Current streak2 losses
Last 3 (UFC)L L W
DivisionWomen's Strawweight
Age33
Height5' 1"
StanceOrthodox

5' 1" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Women's Strawweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision. Best of Women's Strawweights: stuffs 100% of the takedowns tried on her and connects with 56% of her significant strikes.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

Nicknamepending
NationalityJapan
HometownMatsuyama, Ehime
Fighting out ofCombat Sports Academy
Height5' 1"
Reach62.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age33
Date of birthAug 10, 1993
Weight115 lbs.
Pro record12-3
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Kanako Murata’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on her official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min2.15
Striking accuracy56%
Strikes absorbed / min2.40
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.38
Takedown accuracy56%
Takedown defence100%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Women's Strawweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Women's Strawweight.
Striking54
Defence68
Grappling / TD82
Cardio61
Chin limited sample39
Fight IQ61

Our calls on Kanako Murata’s fights

We have not called one of Kanako Murata’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Kanako Murata’s fights, 0 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Kanako Murata

Where the strikes go — and where they land on her. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD76.7%ACC 56%BODY16.3%FIELD 23%LEGS7.0%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Ground striker 56% of what she lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
76.7% acc 56%+15.0 vs field
BODY
16.3%−6.4 vs field
LEGS
7.0%−8.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 38%CLINCH 6%GROUND 56%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

3 UFC fights · 86 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Kanako Murata

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

3.38takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.38 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.75 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS92
3.38 / 15m+1.75 vs field
ATTEMPTS75
6.04 / 15m+1.62 vs field
ACCURACY78
56%+13pp vs field
SUB ATT77
0.80 / 15m−0.02 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

Recent form

Pro record: 12-3. In the UFC: 1-2. Kanako Murata’s last 3 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Full UFC career — 3 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2023-10-07LVanessa DemopoulosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Dawson vs. Green
2021-06-19LVirna JandirobaTKO (doctor)R2
2020-11-14WRanda MarkosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Dos Anjos

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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