Ryūshi Yanagisawa
24–25 · 64 recorded bouts · 1993–2009
24–25
Ryūshi Yanagisawa finished 79% of 24 wins inside the distance — the 51st percentile for light heavyweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Ryūshi Yanagisawa — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-01-21
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 2025-01-21. 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 183 light heavyweight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | L | Lee Dool-Hee | Decision | 2 |
| 2009 | L | Bernard Ackah | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Kim Young-Hyun | Decision | 3 |
| 2004 | L | Ryuta Noji | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Chalid Arrab | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Fedor Emelianenko | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | L | Bobby Hoffman | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | W | Wataru Sakata | Decision | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Tatsufumi Tomihira | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2001 | D | Nobuaki Kakuda | Draw | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Takashi Sonoda | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2000 | L | Ibragim Magomedov | Decision | — |
| 2000 | L | Randy Couture | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Borislav Jeliazkov | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Sanae Kikuta | Decision | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Musashi | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | L | Bob Stines | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Akira Shoji | Draw | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Leon Dijk | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Takafumi Ito | Draw | 2 |
| 1999 | L | Jason DeLucia | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Manabu Yamada | Draw | 1 |
| 1999 | D | Satoshi Hasegawa | Draw | 2 |
| 1998 | L | Evan Tanner | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Kosei Kubota | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | L | Guy Mezger | Decision | 1 |
| 1998 | D | Yuki Kondo | Draw | 1 |
| 1998 | D | Keiichiro Yamamiya | Draw | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Omar Bouiche | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Jason DeLucia | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Jason Godsey | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | John Lober | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Les Johnston | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Paul Varelans | Decision | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Keiichiro Yamamiya | Decision | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Paul Lazenby | Decision | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Kim Jong-Wang | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Edward Thurston | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Jack McGlaughlin | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | D | Takafumi Ito | Draw | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Semmy Schilt | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Guy Mezger | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Kazuo Takahashi | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Takaku Fuke | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Oleg Taktarov | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Vernon White | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Larry Papadopoulos | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Frank Shamrock | Decision | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Masakatsu Funaki | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | L | Bas Rutten | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | D | Guy Mezger | Draw | 1 |
| 1995 | L | Jason DeLucia | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | L | Takafumi Ito | Decision | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Gregory Smit | Submission | 1 |
| 1995 | W | Christopher DeWeaver | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | L | Ken Shamrock | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | Todd Bjornethun | Submission | 1 |
| 1994 | W | James Mathews | Submission | 1 |
| 1993 | W | Vernon White | KO/TKO | 1 |
Showing 60 of 64 recorded bouts, most recent first.
24 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Ryūshi Yanagisawa — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-01-21
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 75″ (190.5 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 2: heavyweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 47 of 64 dated bouts | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Ryūshi Yanagisawa, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
24–25
58 bouts on record
Finish rate
79%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 51st percentile
The career, bout by bout
64 recorded bouts from 1993 to 2009. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
1993–2009
Longest unbeaten run
7
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1996
11 bouts
Recorded bouts
64
64 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Ryūshi Yanagisawa competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 24 | 25 | 4 |
| Kickboxing | 2 | 6 | 2 |
What this record does and does not say
- What is Ryūshi Yanagisawa's record?
- 24–25 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 64 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 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Yanagisawa sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 1990s MMA47 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsRyūshi Yanagisawa went 7 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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