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Naoyuki Kotani
34-14-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record34-14-7
Current streak5 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L L
DivisionLightweight
Age44
Height5' 8"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 8" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Lightweight.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
HometownYokosuka, Kanagawa
Fighting out ofRodeo Style
Height5' 8"
Reach66.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age44
Date of birthDec 08, 1981
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record34-14-7
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Naoyuki Kotani’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 / min1.02
Striking accuracy31%
Strikes absorbed / min2.89
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.83
Takedown accuracy16%
Takedown defence46%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

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.
Striking13
Defence51
Grappling / TD28
Cardio69
Chin15
Fight IQ35

Strike zones

Strike zones

Naoyuki Kotani

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

HEAD54.5%ACC 24%BODY7.3%FIELD 21%LEGS38.2%ACC 58%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 38.2% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +21.1 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
54.5% acc 24%−7.6 vs field
BODY
7.3%−13.5 vs field
LEGS
38.2% acc 58%+21.1 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 73%CLINCH 7%GROUND 20%

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.

5 UFC fights · 55 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Naoyuki Kotani

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

0.83takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.83 landed per 15 minutes — −1.30 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS22
0.83 / 15m−1.30 vs field
ATTEMPTS59
5.19 / 15m−0.22 vs field
ACCURACY8
16%−28pp vs field
SUB ATT53
0.80 / 15m−0.50 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: 34-14-7. In the UFC: 0-5. Naoyuki Kotani’s last 5 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 — 5 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-09-26LKajan JohnsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson
2014-10-25LYan CabralSubmissionR2UFC 179: Aldo vs Mendes 2
2014-07-19LNorman ParkeKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Brandao
2007-09-08LDennis SiverKO/TKOR2UFC 75: Champion vs Champion
2007-04-05LThiago TavaresDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Stevenson vs Guillard

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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