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Naoya Ogawa 小川直也

7–2 · 9 recorded bouts · 1997–2005

MMA record

7–2

Naoya Ogawa 小川直也 finished 100% of 7 wins inside the distance — the 72nd percentile for heavyweight MMA, where the median is 85%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

19902000win v Rens Vrolijk, 1997, submissionwin v Rob Peters, 1999, submissionwin v Gary Goodridge, 1999, submissionwin v Masaaki Satake, 2000, submissionwin v Matt Ghaffari, 2002, koloss v Fedor Emelianenko, 2004, submissionwin v Paulo Cesar Silva, 2004, kowin v Stefan Leko, 2004, submissionloss v Hidehiko Yoshida, 2005, submission
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1997–2005

SOURCE·Naoya Ogawa — 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 324 heavyweight 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
2005 L Hidehiko Yoshida Submission1
2004 L Fedor Emelianenko Submission1
2004 W Paulo Cesar Silva KO/TKO1
2004 W Stefan Leko Submission1
2002 W Matt Ghaffari KO/TKO1
2000 W Masaaki Satake Submission2
1999 W Rob Peters Submission—
1999 W Gary Goodridge Submission2
1997 W Rens Vrolijk Submission1

4 of these opponents have their own page here.

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

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height76″ (193 cm)
Stance—
DivisionHeavyweight MMA
Most active decade2000s — 6 of 9 dated bouts
CountryJapan

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Naoya Ogawa 小川直也, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2000 win vs Rens Vrolijk (1997)win vs Rob Peters (1999)win vs Gary Goodridge (1999)win vs Masaaki Satake (2000)win vs Matt Ghaffari (2002)loss vs Fedor Emelianenko (2004)win vs Paulo Cesar Silva (2004)win vs Stefan Leko (2004)loss vs Hidehiko Yoshida (2005)
winlossdraw / NC1997–2005

Record

MMA record

7–2

9 bouts on record

Finish rate

100%

of wins ended inside the distance — heavyweight MMA median 85%, 72nd percentile

KO/TKO: 2 (29%)Submission: 5 (71%)
  • KO/TKO 29%
  • Submission 71%

The career, bout by bout

9 recorded bouts from 1997 to 2005. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

9y

1997–2005

Longest unbeaten run

5

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2004

3 bouts

Recorded bouts

9

9 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Naoya Ogawa 小川直也's record?
7–2 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 9 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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