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Naoki Inoue

21–4 · 28 recorded bouts · 2014–2026

MMA record

21–4

Naoki Inoue finished 52% of 21 wins inside the distance — the 37th percentile for flyweight MMA, where the median is 58%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

20102020win v Kenichi Kimura, 2014, decisionwin v Gaku Sakamoto, 2014, submissionwin v Chikara Shimabukuro, 2015, decisionwin v Kenji Yamanaka, 2015, submissionwin v Kanta Sato, 2015, submissionwin v Yuya Shibata, 2016, submissionwin v Go Minamide, 2016, decisionwin v Naoyuki Kato, 2016, submissionwin v Iyori Akiba, 2016, submissionwin v Carls John de Tomas, 2017, decisionwin v Tomohiro Adaniya, 2017, decisionloss v Matt Schnell, 2018, decisionwin v Toshiaki Kitada, 2019, submissionloss v Sean Santella, 2019, decisionwin v Yuki Motoya, 2020, submissionwin v Shooto Watanabe, 2020, submissionwin v Trent Girdham, 2020, decisionloss v Hiromasa Ougikubo, 2021, decisionwin v Yuto Hokamura, 2021, decisionwin v Shintaro Ishiwatari, 2021, kowin v Kenta Takizawa, 2022, submissionloss v Juan Archuleta, 2023, decisionwin v Soo Chul Kim, 2024, kowin v Shoko Sato, 2024, decisionloss v Danny Sabatello, 2025, decisionwin v Ryuya Fukuda, 2025, decisionwin v Yuki Motoya, 2025, decisionwin v Marcirley Alves, 2026, decision
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2014–2026

SOURCE·Naoki Inoue — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-10

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 2026-07-10. 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 150 flyweight 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 W Marcirley Alves Decision3
2025 L Danny Sabatello Decision3
2025 W Ryuya Fukuda Decision3
2025 W Yuki Motoya Decision3
2024 W Soo Chul Kim KO/TKO1
2024 W Shoko Sato Decision3
2023 L Juan Archuleta Decision3
2022 W Kenta Takizawa Submission2
2021 L Hiromasa Ougikubo Decision3
2021 W Yuto Hokamura Decision3
2021 W Shintaro Ishiwatari KO/TKO1
2020 W Yuki Motoya Submission1
2020 W Shooto Watanabe Submission1
2020 W Trent Girdham Decision3
2019 W Toshiaki Kitada Submission1
2019 L Sean Santella Decision3
2018 L Matt Schnell Decision3
2017 W Carls John de Tomas Decision3
2017 W Tomohiro Adaniya Decision2
2016 W Yuya Shibata Submission2
2016 W Go Minamide Decision2
2016 W Naoyuki Kato Submission1
2016 W Iyori Akiba Submission1
2015 W Chikara Shimabukuro Decision2
2015 W Kenji Yamanaka Submission1
2015 W Kanta Sato Submission1
2014 W Kenichi Kimura Decision3
2014 W Gaku Sakamoto Submission1

4 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Naoki Inoue — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-10

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height68″ (172.7 cm)
Stance—
DivisionFlyweight MMA
competed at 2: bantamweight, flyweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2010s — 14 of 28 dated bouts
CountryJapan

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

2020 win vs Kenichi Kimura (2014)win vs Gaku Sakamoto (2014)win vs Chikara Shimabukuro (2015)win vs Kenji Yamanaka (2015)win vs Kanta Sato (2015)win vs Yuya Shibata (2016)win vs Go Minamide (2016)win vs Naoyuki Kato (2016)win vs Iyori Akiba (2016)win vs Carls John de Tomas (2017)win vs Tomohiro Adaniya (2017)loss vs Matt Schnell (2018)win vs Toshiaki Kitada (2019)loss vs Sean Santella (2019)win vs Yuki Motoya (2020)win vs Shooto Watanabe (2020)win vs Trent Girdham (2020)loss vs Hiromasa Ougikubo (2021)win vs Yuto Hokamura (2021)win vs Shintaro Ishiwatari (2021)win vs Kenta Takizawa (2022)loss vs Juan Archuleta (2023)win vs Soo Chul Kim (2024)win vs Shoko Sato (2024)loss vs Danny Sabatello (2025)win vs Ryuya Fukuda (2025)win vs Yuki Motoya (2025)win vs Marcirley Alves (2026)
winlossdraw / NC2014–2026

Record

MMA record

21–4

25 bouts on record

Finish rate

52%

of wins ended inside the distance — flyweight MMA median 58%, 37th percentile

KO/TKO: 2 (10%)Submission: 9 (43%)Decision: 10 (48%)
  • KO/TKO 10%
  • Submission 43%
  • Decision 48%

The career, bout by bout

28 recorded bouts from 2014 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

13y

2014–2026

Longest unbeaten run

11

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2016

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

28

28 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Naoki Inoue's record?
21–4 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 28 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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