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Norifumi Yamamoto

UFC 0-3 (1 draw/NC)Pro 18-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 0-3 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2011-02-05 · last fight 2015-02-28
Pro record18-6
Last 4 (UFC)D L L L
DivisionBantamweight
Age49
Height5' 4"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 4" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Bantamweight. Top 13% of Bantamweights: absorbs only 2.01 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 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 social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameKid
NationalityJapan
Hometown (per Sherdog)Kawasaki, Kanagawa
CampKrazy Bee
Height5' 4"
Reach66"
StanceSouthpaw
Age49
Date of birthMar 15, 1977
Weight135 lbs.
Pro record18-6
UFC recordUFC 0-3 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2011-02-05 · last fight 2015-02-28
Finish splitpending
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Norifumi 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 / min2.09
Striking accuracy45%
Strikes absorbed / min2.01
Striking defence57%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.41
Takedown accuracy22%
Takedown defence45%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Bantamweight 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 Bantamweight.
Striking46
Defence76
Grappling / TD12
Cardio16
Chin56
Fight IQ41

Strike zones

Strike zones

Norifumi Yamamoto

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

HEAD70.4%ACC 31%BODY16.9%FIELD 22%LEGS12.7%FIELD 16%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 70.4% upstairs — +8.8 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
70.4% acc 31%+8.8 vs field
BODY
16.9%−5.0 vs field
LEGS
12.7%−3.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 82%CLINCH 16%GROUND 3%

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.

4 UFC fights · 71 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Norifumi Yamamoto

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

0.41takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.41 takedowns and 0.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS7
0.41 / 15m−1.69 vs field
ATTEMPTS15
1.86 / 15m−3.75 vs field
ACCURACY17
22%−19pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.08 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.50 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 Bantamweight

Recent form

Pro record: 18-6. In the UFC: 0-3-1. Norifumi Yamamoto’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-02-28DRoman SalazarCould not continueR2UFC 184: Rousey vs Zingano
2012-02-25LVaughan LeeSubmissionR1UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson
2011-11-12LDarren UyenoyamaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos
2011-02-05LDemetrious JohnsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 126: Silva vs Belfort

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 4 cities Norifumi Yamamoto 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, 2011Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2011Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2015Saitama, Japan — 1 bout, 2012Hometown: Kawasaki, Kanagawa

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

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