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Naoki Sano

0–4 · 4 recorded bouts · 1998–2000

MMA record — counted from the fight table

0–4

Naoki Sano has 4 recorded bouts between 1998 and 2000, a career spanning 3 years, and a longest unbeaten run of 0.

19902000loss v Satoshi Honma, 1998, koloss v Royler Gracie, 1998, submissionloss v Keiichiro Yamamiya, 1999, koloss v Carlos Newton, 2000, submission
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1998–2000

SOURCE·Naoki Sano — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-26

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 2026-07-26. 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 95 1990s 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
2000 L Carlos Newton Submission1
1999 L Keiichiro Yamamiya KO/TKO1
1998 L Satoshi Honma KO/TKO1
1998 L Royler Gracie Submission1

3 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Naoki Sano — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-26

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height70.9″ (180 cm)
Stance—
DivisionSuper Heavyweight MMA
inferred from the listed weight, not stated as a class
Most active decade1990s — 3 of 4 dated bouts
CountryJapan

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

2000 loss vs Satoshi Honma (1998)loss vs Royler Gracie (1998)loss vs Keiichiro Yamamiya (1999)loss vs Carlos Newton (2000)
winlossdraw / NC1998–2000

Record

MMA record

0–4

4 bouts counted from the fight table

The career, bout by bout

4 recorded bouts from 1998 to 2000. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

3y

1998–2000

Longest unbeaten run

0

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1998

2 bouts

Recorded bouts

4

4 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Naoki Sano's record?
0–4 in MMA. The article states no summary record, so this figure is counted from the 4 bouts its own results table lists.
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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