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Katsunori Kikuno

UFC 2-3Pro 24-8-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Katsunori Kikuno’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 2-3 first fight 2014-01-04 · last fight 2015-09-26
Pro record24-8-2
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L W
DivisionFeatherweight
Age44
Height5' 8"
StanceOrthodox

5' 8" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Featherweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision. Top 9% of Featherweights: completes 75% of his takedown attempts and avoids 61% of the strikes thrown at him.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

Nicknamepending
NationalityJapan
Born inKagoshima, Japan Wikipedia
CampTeam Kikuno
Height5' 8"
Reach66"
StanceOrthodox
Age44
Date of birthOct 31, 1981
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record24-8-2
UFC recordUFC 2-3 first fight 2014-01-04 · last fight 2015-09-26
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 submission, 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Katsunori Kikuno’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min2.64
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min2.47
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.88
Takedown accuracy75%
Takedown defence76%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Featherweight.
Striking41
Defence76
Grappling / TD63
Cardio limited sample70
Chin3
Fight IQ51

Strike zones

Strike zones

Katsunori Kikuno

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD67.1%ACC 39%BODY15.2%ACC 60%LEGS17.7%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 67% head / 15% body / 18% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
67.1% acc 39%+4.0 vs field
BODY
15.2% acc 60%−5.0 vs field
LEGS
17.7%+1.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 90%CLINCH 6%GROUND 4%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

5 UFC fights · 79 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Katsunori Kikuno

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.88takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.88 takedowns per 15 minutes at 75% completion — +32pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS49
1.88 / 15m−0.70 vs field
ATTEMPTS21
2.51 / 15m−3.60 vs field
ACCURACY91
75%+32pp vs field
SUB ATT50
0.80 / 15m−0.47 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.09 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked in Featherweight

Deep stats facts

Career and last-five-fight figures from round-by-round UFC records, with where each ranks among every UFC fighter who has fought enough to be ranked. Tap a stat name for the full leaderboard.

 CareerLast 5 fights
Striking
Strikes landedSignificant strikes landed per minute of fight time.
2.85/minsmall sample (5 fights)
2.85/min#1,084 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
3.93/minsmall sample (5 fights)
3.93/min#1,084 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
45.1%small sample (5 fights)
45.1%#968 of 1,752 ranked in the UFC
Durability
Knockdowns per 100 head strikesKnockdowns suffered for every 100 head strikes absorbed. Lower means more punishment taken without going down.
3.80small sample (5 fights)
3.80small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
60%small sample (5 fights)
60%#1,487 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
90.9%#88 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
90.9%#85 of 1,498 ranked in the UFC
Get-up speedSeconds the opponent stays in control after each takedown landed on this fighter. Lower means back on their feet faster.
48 secsmall sample (5 fights)
48 secsmall sample (5 fights)
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
114%small sample (1 fight)
114%small sample (1 fight)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.00 per 15 minsmall sample (5 fights)
0.00 per 15 min#1,006 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%#1,209 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#927 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
20%#337 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
20%#304 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC

† Needs round-by-round data, which is missing for some UFC bouts. Those fights are left out, not estimated.

Every figure is built from UFC fights that have round-by-round data. Some older bouts do not, and are left out rather than estimated. Figures to 2015-09-26.

Recent form

Pro record: 24-8-2. In the UFC: 2-3. Katsunori Kikuno’s last 5 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Full UFC career — 5 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2015-09-26LDiego BrandaoKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson
2015-03-21LEdimilson SouzaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Maia vs LaFlare
2014-09-20WSam SiciliaSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Nelson
2014-05-24LTony FergusonKO/TKOR1UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw
2014-01-04WQuinn MulhernDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Saffiedine vs Lim

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

On the map

The 4 cities Katsunori Kikuno has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Saitama, Japan — 2 bouts, 2014–2015Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 1 bout, 2014Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 1 bout, 2015Singapore, Singapore — 1 bout, 2014

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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