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Keita Nakamura

UFC 4-7Pro 34-10-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

UFC recordUFC 4-7 first fight 2006-12-13 · last fight 2019-04-20
Pro record34-10-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W L W L
DivisionWelterweight
Age42
Height5' 11"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 11" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 4 UFC wins — 2 submission, 2 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameK-Taro
NationalityJapan
Born inTokyo, Japan Wikipedia
Fights out ofTokyo, Japan Wikipedia
CampUnited Gym Tokyo
Height5' 11"
Reach73"
StanceSouthpaw
Age42
Date of birthMay 22, 1984
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record34-10-2
UFC recordUFC 4-7 first fight 2006-12-13 · last fight 2019-04-20
Finish split4 UFC wins — 2 submission, 2 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Keita Nakamura’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 / min2.23
Striking accuracy36%
Strikes absorbed / min3.20
Striking defence58%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.65
Takedown accuracy48%
Takedown defence63%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight 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 Welterweight.
Striking29
Defence62
Grappling / TD44
Cardio19
Chin89
Fight IQ49

Strike zones

Strike zones

Keita Nakamura

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

HEAD79.3%ACC 32%BODY14.5%ACC 62%LEGS6.2%ACC 60%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 79.3% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +16.8 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
79.3% acc 32%+16.8 vs field
BODY
14.5% acc 62%−6.5 vs field
LEGS
6.2% acc 60%−10.3 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 79%CLINCH 11%GROUND 10%

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.

11 UFC fights · 337 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Keita Nakamura

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

1.65takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.65 takedowns per 15 minutes at 48% completion — +2pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS53
1.65 / 15m−0.45 vs field
ATTEMPTS40
3.44 / 15m−1.63 vs field
ACCURACY61
48%+2pp vs field
SUB ATT18
0.30 / 15m−1.03 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 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 Welterweight

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.
2.14/min#1,084 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
1.93/min#1,548 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strikes absorbedSignificant strikes taken per minute. Lower is better.
3.33/min#620 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
2.49/min#368 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Strike accuracyShare of significant strikes thrown that land.
35.7%#1,109 of 1,211 ranked in the UFC
35.8%#1,489 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.
0.29#130 of 399 ranked in the UFC
0.00small sample (5 fights)
Knockout lossesShare of decided fights lost by KO or TKO. Lower is better.
0%#94 of 803 ranked in the UFC
0%#171 of 1,568 ranked in the UFC
Grappling
Takedown defenceShare of opponent takedown attempts that are stopped.
63.9%#531 of 1,094 ranked in the UFC
62.5%#826 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.
155 sec#736 of 990 ranked in the UFC
164 sec#964 of 1,245 ranked in the UFC
Cardio and late rounds
Round-3 pace kept†Round-3 striking pace as a share of round-1 pace. 100% means no fade.
128%small sample (9 fights)
108%small sample (5 fights)
Finishing
Knockdowns scoredKnockdowns scored per 15 minutes of fight time.
0.38 per 15 min#428 of 1,232 ranked in the UFC
0.20 per 15 min#839 of 1,820 ranked in the UFC
Knockout winsShare of decided fights won by KO or TKO.
0%#981 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#1,003 of 1,862 ranked in the UFC
Submission winsShare of decided fights won by submission.
18%#291 of 1,265 ranked in the UFC
0%#832 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 2019-04-20.

Recent form

Pro record: 34-10-2. In the UFC: 4-7. Keita Nakamura’s last 8 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 — 11 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2019-04-20LSultan AlievDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik
2018-12-01WSalim TouahriDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa
2018-04-21LAnthony Rocco MartinDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee
2017-09-22WAlex MoronoDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Saint Preux vs. Okami
2016-10-01LElizeu Zaleski dos SantosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lineker vs. Dodson
2016-07-13WKyle NokeSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: McDonald vs. Lineker
2016-02-27LTom BreeseDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Silva vs Bisping
2015-09-26WLi JingliangSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson
2008-02-02LRob EmersonDecision (split)R3UFC 81: Breaking Point
2007-04-05LDrew FickettDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Stevenson vs Guillard
2006-12-13LBrock LarsonDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Sanchez vs Riggs

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 10 cities Keita Nakamura 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.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 2 bouts, 2007–2008Adelaide, South Australia, Australia — 1 bout, 2018Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2018London, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2016Portland, Oregon, USA — 1 bout, 2016Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 1 bout, 2019Saitama, Japan — 1 bout, 2015Saitama, Saitama, Japan — 1 bout, 2017San Diego, California, USA — 1 bout, 2006Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA — 1 bout, 2016

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

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