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Akira Kikuchi 菊地昭

16–4 · 20 recorded bouts · 2002–2007

MMA record

16–4

Akira Kikuchi 菊地昭 finished 75% of 16 wins inside the distance — the 56th percentile for welterweight MMA, where the median is 73%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

2000win v Kolo Koka, 2002, submissionwin v Shigetoshi Iwase, 2002, decisionwin v Jani Lax, 2002, submissionwin v Yoichi Fukumoto, 2002, submissionloss v Jake Shields, 2003, decisionwin v Seichi Ikemoto, 2003, submissionwin v Toru Nakayama, 2003, kowin v Jake Shields, 2004, decisionwin v Ramunas Komas, 2004, submissionwin v Jutaro Nakao, 2004, decisionwin v Sammy Morgan, 2004, submissionwin v Kiuma Kunioku, 2005, decisionwin v Katsuya Inoue, 2005, kowin v Jason Brudvik, 2005, kowin v Ronald Jhun, 2006, submissionloss v Shinya Aoki, 2006, decisionloss v Yoshiyuki Yoshida, 2007, kowin v Ju Pyo Hong, 2007, kowin v Jared Rollins, 2007, koloss v Shinya Aoki, 2007, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2002–2007

SOURCE·Akira Kikuchi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-19

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-19. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
  3. A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
  4. Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 299 welterweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2007 L Yoshiyuki Yoshida KO/TKO1
2007 W Ju Pyo Hong KO/TKO1
2007 W Jared Rollins KO/TKO2
2007 L Shinya Aoki Decision3
2006 W Ronald Jhun Submission1
2006 L Shinya Aoki Decision3
2005 W Kiuma Kunioku Decision3
2005 W Katsuya Inoue KO/TKO1
2005 W Jason Brudvik KO/TKO1
2004 W Jake Shields Decision3
2004 W Ramunas Komas Submission2
2004 W Jutaro Nakao Decision3
2004 W Sammy Morgan Submission1
2003 L Jake Shields Decision3
2003 W Seichi Ikemoto Submission2
2003 W Toru Nakayama KO/TKO1
2002 W Kolo Koka Submission1
2002 W Shigetoshi Iwase Decision2
2002 W Jani Lax Submission1
2002 W Yoichi Fukumoto Submission1

5 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Akira Kikuchi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-19

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height68″ (172.7 cm)
Stance—
DivisionWelterweight MMA
Most active decade2000s — 20 of 20 dated bouts
CountryJapan

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Akira Kikuchi 菊地昭, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

win vs Kolo Koka (2002)win vs Shigetoshi Iwase (2002)win vs Jani Lax (2002)win vs Yoichi Fukumoto (2002)loss vs Jake Shields (2003)win vs Seichi Ikemoto (2003)win vs Toru Nakayama (2003)win vs Jake Shields (2004)win vs Ramunas Komas (2004)win vs Jutaro Nakao (2004)win vs Sammy Morgan (2004)win vs Kiuma Kunioku (2005)win vs Katsuya Inoue (2005)win vs Jason Brudvik (2005)win vs Ronald Jhun (2006)loss vs Shinya Aoki (2006)loss vs Yoshiyuki Yoshida (2007)win vs Ju Pyo Hong (2007)win vs Jared Rollins (2007)loss vs Shinya Aoki (2007)
winlossdraw / NC2002–2007

Record

MMA record

16–4

20 bouts on record

Finish rate

75%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 56th percentile

KO/TKO: 5 (31%)Submission: 7 (44%)Decision: 4 (25%)
  • KO/TKO 31%
  • Submission 44%
  • Decision 25%

The career, bout by bout

20 recorded bouts from 2002 to 2007. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

6y

2002–2007

Longest unbeaten run

10

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2002

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

20

20 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Akira Kikuchi 菊地昭's record?
16–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 20 bouts individually.
Does a no contest change a record here?
No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

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