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Kozo Urita

17–21 · 40 recorded bouts · 2003–2026

MMA record

17–21

Kozo Urita finished 71% of 17 wins inside the distance — the 32nd percentile for middleweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

200020102020UNFILEDwin v David Davitashvili, 2003, submissionwin v Jin O Kim, 2004, decisionloss v Keiichiro Yamamiya, 2004, decisionwin v Yuta Nakamura, 2005, decisionloss v Izuru Takeuchi, 2005, decisionwin v Moriyuki Yamada, 2005, submissionloss v Valery Pliev, 2005, decisionwin v Alavutdin Gadjiev, 2006, decisionwin v Rikuhei Fujii, 2006, decisionloss v Marcelo Brito, 2006, submissionloss v Hidemi Mihara, 2006, decisionloss v Arman Gambaryan, 2006, decisiondraw v Yuichi Nakanishi, 2006, drawwin v Riki Fukuda, 2006, koloss v Yuya Shirai, 2007, submissionloss v Ichiro Kanai, 2007, koresult not stated v Hoon Kim, 2007loss v Ryuta Sakurai, 2008, submissionloss v Vladimir Yushko, 2008, decisionwin v Hoon Kim, 2008, kowin v Barry Guerin, 2009, kowin v Sharihyar Abbasov, 2009, koloss v Jerry Nelson, 2009, decisionwin v Gadji Zaipulaev, 2010, decisionwin v Gennadiy Kovalev, 2012, koloss v Yusuke Kawaguchi, 2016, decisionloss v Brandon Hashimoto, 2022, decisionwin v Katsuyoshi Sasaki, 2022, koloss v Hidetaka Arato, 2022, decisionloss v Radek Hecl, 2023, koloss v Hon Hsing, 2023, decisionloss v Ryutaro Sato, 2024, kowin v Tesshin Isobe, 2024, decisionloss v Yuji Inoue, 2025, koloss v Joilton Lutterbach, 2025, kowin v Kenichi Nakayama, 2025, submissionloss v Shuto Masui, 2026, submissionwin v Ken Ogawa, no date on recordwin v Toshihiro Hosoe, no date on recordwin v Motohiro Tachihara, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2003–2026 · 3 UNDATED

SOURCE·Kozo Urita — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-16

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 2026-05-16. 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 244 middleweight 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
2026 L Shuto Masui Submission2
2025 L Yuji Inoue KO/TKO1
2025 L Joilton Lutterbach KO/TKO1
2025 W Kenichi Nakayama Submission1
2024 L Ryutaro Sato KO/TKO1
2024 W Tesshin Isobe Decision3
2023 L Radek Hecl KO/TKO1
2023 L Hon Hsing Decision2
2022 L Brandon Hashimoto Decision2
2022 W Katsuyoshi Sasaki KO/TKO2
2022 L Hidetaka Arato Decision2
2016 L Yusuke Kawaguchi Decision2
2012 W Gennadiy Kovalev KO/TKO1
2010 W Gadji Zaipulaev Decision3
2009 W Barry Guerin KO/TKO1
2009 W Sharihyar Abbasov KO/TKO2
2009 L Jerry Nelson Decision3
2008 L Ryuta Sakurai Submission1
2008 L Vladimir Yushko Decision2
2008 W Hoon Kim KO/TKO2
2007 L Yuya Shirai Submission1
2007 L Ichiro Kanai KO/TKO1
2007 ? Hoon Kim —1
2006 W Alavutdin Gadjiev Decision2
2006 W Rikuhei Fujii Decision2
2006 L Marcelo Brito Submission1
2006 L Hidemi Mihara Decision2
2006 L Arman Gambaryan Decision3
2006 D Yuichi Nakanishi Draw2
2006 W Riki Fukuda KO/TKO1
2005 W Yuta Nakamura Decision3
2005 L Izuru Takeuchi Decision2
2005 W Moriyuki Yamada Submission2
2005 L Valery Pliev Decision3
2004 W Jin O Kim Decision3
2004 L Keiichiro Yamamiya Decision2
2003 W David Davitashvili Submission2
undated W Ken Ogawa KO/TKO—
undated W Toshihiro Hosoe Submission—
undated W Motohiro Tachihara Submission—

4 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Kozo Urita — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-16

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height68.5″ (174 cm)
Stance—
DivisionMiddleweight MMA
competed at 2: light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2000s — 23 of 37 dated bouts
CountryJapan

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

2010 2020 win vs David Davitashvili (2003)win vs Jin O Kim (2004)loss vs Keiichiro Yamamiya (2004)win vs Yuta Nakamura (2005)loss vs Izuru Takeuchi (2005)win vs Moriyuki Yamada (2005)loss vs Valery Pliev (2005)win vs Alavutdin Gadjiev (2006)win vs Rikuhei Fujii (2006)loss vs Marcelo Brito (2006)loss vs Hidemi Mihara (2006)loss vs Arman Gambaryan (2006)draw vs Yuichi Nakanishi (2006)win vs Riki Fukuda (2006)loss vs Yuya Shirai (2007)loss vs Ichiro Kanai (2007)? vs Hoon Kim (2007)loss vs Ryuta Sakurai (2008)loss vs Vladimir Yushko (2008)win vs Hoon Kim (2008)win vs Barry Guerin (2009)win vs Sharihyar Abbasov (2009)loss vs Jerry Nelson (2009)win vs Gadji Zaipulaev (2010)win vs Gennadiy Kovalev (2012)loss vs Yusuke Kawaguchi (2016)loss vs Brandon Hashimoto (2022)win vs Katsuyoshi Sasaki (2022)loss vs Hidetaka Arato (2022)loss vs Radek Hecl (2023)loss vs Hon Hsing (2023)loss vs Ryutaro Sato (2024)win vs Tesshin Isobe (2024)loss vs Yuji Inoue (2025)loss vs Joilton Lutterbach (2025)win vs Kenichi Nakayama (2025)loss vs Shuto Masui (2026)
winlossdraw / NC2003–2026

Record

MMA record

17–21

40 bouts on record

Finish rate

71%

of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 32nd percentile

KO/TKO: 8 (47%)Submission: 4 (24%)Decision: 5 (29%)
  • KO/TKO 47%
  • Submission 24%
  • Decision 29%

The career, bout by bout

40 recorded bouts from 2003 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

24y

2003–2026

Longest unbeaten run

3

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2006

7 bouts

Recorded bouts

40

37 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Kozo Urita's record?
17–21 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 40 bouts individually.
How many of Kozo Urita's bouts have no date?
3 of 40. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
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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