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Keita Nakamura
34-10-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Keita Nakamura’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record34-10-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W L
DivisionWelterweight
Age42
Height5' 11"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 11" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 4 UFC wins — 2 submission, 2 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameK-Taro
NationalityJapan
HometownKatsushika, Tokyo
Fighting out ofUnited Gym Tokyo
Height5' 11"
Reach73.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age42
Date of birthMay 22, 1984
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record34-10-2
Finish split4 UFC wins — 2 submission, 2 decision

Career rates facts

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

Striking
Strikes landed / min2.23
Striking accuracy36%
Strikes absorbed / min3.20
Striking defence58%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.65
Takedown accuracy48%
Takedown defence63%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking30
Defence62
Grappling / TD44
Cardio19
Chin89
Fight IQ49

Strike zones

Strike zones

Keita Nakamura

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

HEAD79.3%ACC 32%BODY14.5%ACC 62%LEGS6.2%ACC 60%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 79.3% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +17.0 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
79.3% acc 32%+17.0 vs field
BODY
14.5% acc 62%−6.6 vs field
LEGS
6.2% acc 60%−10.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 79%CLINCH 11%GROUND 10%

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.

11 UFC fights · 337 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Keita Nakamura

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

1.65takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.65 takedowns per 15 minutes at 48% completion — +2pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS54
1.65 / 15m−0.34 vs field
ATTEMPTS41
3.44 / 15m−1.50 vs field
ACCURACY61
48%+2pp vs field
SUB ATT18
0.30 / 15m−1.02 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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 Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 34-10-2. In the UFC: 4-7. Keita Nakamura’s last 8 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 — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2019-04-20LSultan AlievDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik
2018-12-01WSalim TouahriDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa
2018-04-21LAnthony Rocco MartinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee
2017-09-22WAlex MoronoDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Saint Preux vs. Okami
2016-10-01LElizeu Zaleski dos SantosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson
2016-07-13WKyle NokeSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker
2016-02-27LTom BreeseDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bisping
2015-09-26WLi JingliangSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson
2008-02-02LRob EmersonDecision (split)R3UFC 81: Breaking Point
2007-04-05LDrew FickettDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Stevenson vs Guillard
2006-12-13LBrock LarsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Sanchez vs Riggs

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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