Kazuo Takahashi
29–28 · 60 recorded bouts · 1992–2018
29–28
Kazuo Takahashi finished 69% of 29 wins inside the distance — the 29th percentile for middleweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Kazuo Takahashi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-05-27
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2025-05-27. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 244 middleweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
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.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | L | Duško Todorović | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Ryo Kawamura | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | W | Kenichi Yamamoto | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Yuji Sakuragi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | W | Chang Seob Lee | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Antony Rea | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Valentijn Overeem | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Fábio Silva | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Mark Burch | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Melvin Manhoef | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | L | Vitor Belfort | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Kestutis Arbocius | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Yuji Sakuragi | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Igor Vovchanchyn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Heath Herring | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Josh Barnett | Submission | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Tsuyoshi Ozawa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Hideki Tadao | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Katsuhisa Fujii | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Marcelo Tigre | DQ | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Hiroya Takada | Submission | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Katsuomi Inagaki | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | David Frendin | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Mitsuyoshi Sato | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | L | Sanae Kikuta | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Masutatsu Yano | Decision | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Semmy Schilt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | John Cronk | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Osami Shibuya | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | D | John Lober | Draw | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Omar Bouiche | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Minoru Suzuki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | D | Katsuomi Inagaki | Draw | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Semmy Schilt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Leon Dijk | Decision | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Osami Shibuya | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Yuki Kondo | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Kim Jong Wang | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Jason Godsey | Submission | 2 |
| 1997 | L | Jason DeLucia | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Satoshi Hasegawa | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | L | Semmy Schilt | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Wallid Ismail | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Keiichiro Yamamiya | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Vernon White | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Ryushi Yanagisawa | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | D | Manabu Yamada | Draw | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Takafumi Ito | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Jason DeLucia | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Ken Shamrock | Decision | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Scott Bessac | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Osami Shibuya | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | L | Bas Rutten | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Andre Van Den Oetelaar | Decision | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Katsuomi Inagaki | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | L | Masakatsu Funaki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1993 | W | James Mathews | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | L | Ken Shamrock | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | W | George Weingeroff | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1992 | W | Superman Sattasaba | Submission | 1 |
22 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Kazuo Takahashi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-05-27
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70″ (177.8 cm) | |
| Stance | Orthodox | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 3: heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 33 of 60 dated bouts | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Kazuo Takahashi, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
29–28
60 bouts on record
Finish rate
69%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 29th percentile
The career, bout by bout
60 recorded bouts from 1992 to 2018. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
27y
1992–2018
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1996
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
60
60 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Kazuo Takahashi's record?
- 29–28 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 60 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.
Where this record leads
The 244 middleweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Takahashi sits inside.
244 FIGHTERS 1990s MMA33 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsKazuo Takahashi went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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