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Kazuhiro Nakamura

UFC 0-2Pro 21-13tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 0-2 first fight 2007-09-22 · last fight 2008-05-24
Pro record21-13
Current streak2 losses
Last 2 (UFC)L L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age47
Height5' 11"
StanceOrthodox

5' 11" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. Top 14% of Light Heavyweights: absorbs only 1.83 significant strikes a minute and avoids 59% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameKaz
NationalityJapan
Hometown (per Sherdog)Fukuyama, Hiroshima
Camppending
Height5' 11"
Reach70"
StanceOrthodox
Age47
Date of birthJul 16, 1979
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record21-13
UFC recordUFC 0-2 first fight 2007-09-22 · last fight 2008-05-24
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Kazuhiro 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 / min1.56
Striking accuracy37%
Strikes absorbed / min1.83
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.73
Takedown accuracy36%
Takedown defence42%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.60

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light Heavyweight 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking28
Defence84
Grappling / TD45
Cardio limited sample47
Chin limited sample27
Fight IQ46

Strike zones

Strike zones

Kazuhiro Nakamura

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

HEAD33.3%ACC 18%BODY47.7%FIELD 19%LEGS19.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Body puncher 47.7% of his landed strikes go to the body — +28.6 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
33.3% acc 18%−30.9 vs field
BODY
47.7%+28.6 vs field
LEGS
19.0%+2.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 43%CLINCH 57%GROUND 0%

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 sample2 UFC fights · 21 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Kazuhiro Nakamura

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

1.73takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.73 landed per 15 minutes — −0.59 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS53
1.73 / 15m−0.59 vs field
ATTEMPTS55
4.81 / 15m−0.70 vs field
ACCURACY41
36%−8pp vs field
SUB ATT41
0.60 / 15m−1.00 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.25 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 21-13. In the UFC: 0-2. Kazuhiro Nakamura’s last 2 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 — 2 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2008-05-24LRameau Thierry SokoudjouKO/TKOR1UFC 84: Ill Will
2007-09-22LLyoto MachidaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 76: Knockout

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.

On the map

The 2 cities Kazuhiro Nakamura has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Anaheim, California, USA — 1 bout, 2007Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2008Hometown: Fukuyama, Hiroshima

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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