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Yuta Sasaki
21-6-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Yuta Sasaki’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Submission grappler

Pro record21-6-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W L
DivisionFlyweight
Age36
Height5' 10"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 10" southpaw submission grappler campaigning at Flyweight. 4 UFC wins — 4 submission.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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

NicknameUlka
NationalityJapan
HometownNumazu, Shizuoka
Fighting out ofSerra-Longo Fight Team
Height5' 10"
Reach71.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age36
Date of birthOct 07, 1989
Weight125 lbs.
Pro record21-6-2
Finish split4 UFC wins — 4 submission

Career rates facts

Career averages over Yuta Sasaki’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 / min2.16
Striking accuracy41%
Strikes absorbed / min2.50
Striking defence50%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min3.03
Takedown accuracy43%
Takedown defence41%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Flyweight 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 Flyweight.
Striking36
Defence57
Grappling / TD71
Cardio limited sample46
Chin32
Fight IQ48

Strike zones

Strike zones

Yuta Sasaki

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

HEAD59.8%ACC 34%BODY23.7%ACC 64%LEGS16.5%ACC 64%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 60% head / 24% body / 16% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
59.8% acc 34%−3.4 vs field
BODY
23.7% acc 64%+2.9 vs field
LEGS
16.5% acc 64%+0.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 68%CLINCH 9%GROUND 22%

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.

9 UFC fights · 139 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Yuta Sasaki

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

3.03takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 3.03 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +0.89 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS77
3.03 / 15m+0.89 vs field
ATTEMPTS74
7.05 / 15m+1.38 vs field
ACCURACY65
43%+1pp vs field
SUB ATT71
1.20 / 15m+0.06 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 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 Flyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 21-6-2. In the UFC: 4-5. Yuta Sasaki’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 — 9 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2018-11-17LAlexandre PantojaSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Magny vs. Ponzinibbio
2018-06-23WJenel LausaSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards
2017-09-22LJussier FormigaSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Saint Preux vs. Okami
2017-06-17WJustin ScogginsSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia
2017-02-11LWilson ReisDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 208: Holm vs. De Randamie
2016-05-08WWillie GatesSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski
2015-06-20LTaylor LapilusKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Jedrzejczyk vs Penne
2014-12-20LLeandro IssaSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Machida vs Dollaway
2014-08-23WRoland DelormeSubmissionR1

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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