Wataru Sakata
13–14 · 26 recorded bouts · 1995–2016
13–14
Wataru Sakata finished 77% of 13 wins inside the distance — the 46th percentile for light heavyweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Wataru Sakata — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-22
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 2026-06-22. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | L | Hayato Sakurai | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | L | Daniel Gracie | Submission | 1 |
| 2002 | L | Mario Sperry | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | W | Toro Irison | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Kosei Kubota | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Adrian Serrano | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Ryushi Yanagisawa | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Dave Menne | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Gustavo Machado | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Mansour Heidari | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Branden Lee Hinkle | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Renzo Gracie | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Chris Watts | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Hiromitsu Kanehara | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Borislav Jeliazkov | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | L | Sean Alvarez | Decision | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Dick Vrij | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Chris Haseman | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Kenichi Yamamoto | Decision | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Willie Peeters | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Valentijn Overeem | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Sean McCully | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Willie Peeters | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Mikhail Ilyukhin | Submission | — |
| 1995 | L | Tsuyoshi Kosaka | Submission | — |
| undated | W | Dick Vrij | KO/TKO | — |
19 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Wataru Sakata — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-22
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 68.9″ (175 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA | |
| Most active decade | 1990s — 14 of 25 dated bouts | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Wataru Sakata, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
13–14
27 bouts on record
Finish rate
77%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 46th percentile
The career, bout by bout
26 recorded bouts from 1995 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
22y
1995–2016
Longest unbeaten run
6
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1999
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
26
25 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Wataru Sakata's record?
- 13–14 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 26 bouts individually.
- How many of Wataru Sakata's bouts have no date?
- 1 of 26. 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.
Where this record leads
The 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sakata sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 1990s MMA14 of these bouts fall in the 1990s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
95 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsWataru Sakata went 6 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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