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Mizuto Hirota
18-10-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record18-10-2
Current streak3 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L W D
DivisionLightweight
Age45
Height5' 7"
StanceOrthodox

5' 7" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight. 1 UFC win — 1 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknamePugnus
NationalityJapan
HometownIsahaya, Nagasaki
Fighting out ofCave
Height5' 7"
Reach67.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age45
Date of birthMay 05, 1981
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record18-10-2
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Mizuto Hirota’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 / min3.36
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min3.50
Striking defence54%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.36
Takedown accuracy50%
Takedown defence58%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking52
Defence51
Grappling / TD40
Cardio81
Chin58
Fight IQ56

Strike zones

Strike zones

Mizuto Hirota

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

HEAD72.0%ACC 33%BODY14.4%ACC 67%LEGS13.6%ACC 88%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 72.0% upstairs — +9.9 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
72.0% acc 33%+9.9 vs field
BODY
14.4% acc 67%−6.4 vs field
LEGS
13.6% acc 88%−3.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 83%CLINCH 7%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.

7 UFC fights · 367 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Mizuto Hirota

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

1.36takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.36 landed per 15 minutes — −0.77 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS40
1.36 / 15m−0.77 vs field
ATTEMPTS27
2.72 / 15m−2.68 vs field
ACCURACY75
50%+6pp vs field
SUB ATT5
0.10 / 15m−1.20 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 18-10-2. In the UFC: 1-5-1. Mizuto Hirota’s last 7 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.

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