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Kenichi Yamamoto
5-12-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record5-12-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 3 (UFC)L W W
DivisionWelterweight
Age50
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision. Top 17% of Welterweights: absorbs only 1.93 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
HometownKadoma, Osaka
Fighting out ofPower of Dream
Height6' 0"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age50
Date of birthJul 11, 1976
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record5-12-2
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Kenichi Yamamoto’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 / min0.30
Striking accuracy46%
Strikes absorbed / min1.93
Striking defence38%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.00
Takedown accuracy0%
Takedown defence10%
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
Defence48
Grappling / TD18
Cardio limited sample50
Chin limited sample73
Fight IQ44

Strike zones

Strike zones

Kenichi Yamamoto

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

HEAD25.0%FIELD 62%BODY70.8%FIELD 21%LEGS4.2%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Ground striker 75% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
25.0%−37.3 vs field
BODY
70.8%+49.7 vs field
LEGS
4.2%−12.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 17%CLINCH 8%GROUND 75%

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.

Limited sample3 UFC fights · 24 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Kenichi Yamamoto

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

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.99 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−1.99 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
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: 5-12-2. In the UFC: 2-1. Kenichi Yamamoto’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
2000-12-16LPat MiletichSubmissionR2UFC 29: Defense of the Belts
1999-11-19WKatsuhisa FujiiSubmissionR2UFC 23: Ultimate Japan 2
1999-11-19WDaiju TakaseDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 23: Ultimate Japan 2

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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