Masanori Kanehara Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	#8Michael McDonald Bantamweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R2	2:09	UFC 195: Lawler vs. Condit	Jan 2, 2016
L	Rani Yahya Bantamweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Mir vs. Duffee	Jul 15, 2015
W	#10Alex Caceres Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Nelson	Sep 20, 2014

Outside the UFC

28-12-5across 45 bouts · 12 promotions · wins by 11 KO · 10 sub · 7 decZst · RIZIN · Deep · Sengoku · Pancrase +7

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
L	Ren Sugiyama3-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R3	2:51	RIZIN	Jul 27, 2025
L	Chihiro Suzuki13-6	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	4:20	RIZIN	Apr 29, 2024
W	Kleber Koike Erbst35-9-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RIZIN	Sep 24, 2023
W	Sora Yamamoto12-9	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RIZIN	Apr 29, 2023
W	Kazumasa Majima19-6	KO/TKO	Punches	R3	3:37	RIZIN	Apr 16, 2022
W	Takahiro Ashida26-17-2	KO/TKO	Punches and Elbows	R2	1:18	RIZIN	Oct 24, 2021
L	Victor Henry25-7	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	0:45	RIZIN	Feb 22, 2020
W	Jomhod Chuwattana0-1	Submission	Arm-Triangle Choke	R1	1:55	Deep	Apr 1, 2018
W	Charlie Alaniz10-4	KO/TKO	Doctor Stoppage	R1	0:30	Deep	Dec 17, 2016
L	Toshiaki Kitada16-13-4	DQ	Fighter Thrown from Ring	R1	1:37	Deep	Apr 29, 2014
W	Joe Pearson45-31-1	KO/TKO	Punch	R1	0:21	Pancrase	Sep 29, 2013
W	Wade Choate15-17	Submission	Arm-Triangle Choke	R1	4:16	Deep	Apr 26, 2013
W	Tom McKenna7-4	KO/TKO	Punch to the Body	R1	2:45	Deep	Dec 22, 2012
W	Tony Reyes7-10	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	4:28	Deep	Jul 21, 2012
W	Jake Hattan11-2	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:16	Heat	Apr 8, 2012
W	Brady Harrison12-12	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R3	4:59	Xplode Fight Series	Nov 19, 2011
L	Rasul Mirzaev19-4	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:47	Fight Nights	Jul 7, 2011
W	Motoshi Miyaji11-13-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R2	0:09	Pancrase	Jun 5, 2011
L	Yoshiro Maeda40-19-3	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:27	SRC	Dec 30, 2010
L	Marlon Sandro29-7-2	KO/TKO	Punch	R1	0:38	SRC	Jun 20, 2010
W	Norifumi Yamamoto18-6	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	K-1	Dec 31, 2009
W	Michihiro Omigawa19-15-1	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	Sengoku	Aug 2, 2009
L	Hatsu Hioki30-12-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Sengoku	Aug 2, 2009
W	Chan Sung Jung17-8	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Sengoku	May 2, 2009
W	Jong Man Kim23-11-3	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Sengoku	Mar 20, 2009
W	Kenji Arai15-15-5	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	3:14	Pancrase	Feb 1, 2009
L	Takafumi Otsuka30-18-1	Decision	Split	R2	5:00	Deep	Oct 23, 2008
W	Isamu Sugiuchi10-10-3	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	0:47	Zst	Aug 24, 2008
L	Erikas Petraitis20-10-2	Decision	Unanimous	R2	5:00	Shooto	Mar 16, 2008
W	Shunichi Shimizu39-32-13	Submission	Armbar	R2	0:22	Zst	Feb 24, 2008
D	Naoyuki Kotani37-20-7	Draw	Time Limit	R2	5:00	Zst 15	Nov 23, 2007
W	Yoichiro Toriyama3-8-2	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:45	Zst	Oct 7, 2007
L	Tashiro Nishiuchi17-9-13	KO/TKO	Head Kick and Punch	R1	3:59	Zst	Jun 10, 2007
W	Arunas Jurgelenas1-6	Submission	Choke	R1	1:47	Shooto	Apr 14, 2007
W	Tetsu Suzuki13-12-3	Decision	Majority	R2	5:00	K-1	Mar 12, 2007
W	Shinya Sato10-15-7	Submission	Armbar	R1	0:56	Zst	Feb 12, 2007
W	Taro Himura1-4	Submission	Armbar	R1	2:20	Zst	Dec 17, 2006
W	Kenichi Ito12-13-6	KO/TKO	Punch	R2	1:00	Zst	Oct 1, 2006
D	Hiroyuki Ota16-11-9	Draw	Time Limit	R2	5:00	Zst	Aug 27, 2006
W	Hisashi Hiyama1-4-1	Submission	Armbar	R1	0:56	Zst	Jun 4, 2006
W	Toshiyuki Saito7-7-4	KO/TKO	Knee	R1	1:37	Zst	Apr 23, 2006
L	Shinya Sato10-15-7	Submission	Kimura	R2	2:47	Zst	Nov 23, 2005
D	Norimichi Isozaki0-2-1	Draw	Time Limit	R2	5:00	Zst	Sep 10, 2005
D	Hiroyuki Ota16-11-9	Draw	Time Limit	R2	5:00	Zst	Jul 24, 2005
D	Masayuki Okude14-10-6	Draw	Time Limit	R2	5:00	Zst	Apr 17, 2005

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) and Dana White’s Contender Series — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Amateur

2-2across 4 amateur bouts · 2 promotionsZst · Deep

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Satoru Ida0-3-1	Decision	Unanimous	R1	5:00	Zst	Jan 23, 2005
L	Masayuki Okude14-10-6	Submission	Armbar	R1	4:22	Zst	Nov 3, 2004
W	Yuki Takaya0-3	Submission	Armbar	R1	2:35	Zst	Sep 12, 2004
L	Isamu Sugiuchi10-10-3	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	1:44	Deep	Sep 15, 2003

Amateur (pre-professional) bouts — shown for context only and excluded from the professional record and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

11 wins, 7 losses

W11

L7

Submission

10 wins, 2 losses

W10

L2

Decision

8 wins, 4 losses

W8

L4

Other

0 wins, 1 loss

Disqualifications and other results

W0

L1

Finishes

UFC KOs

0

Below avg · 11%Featherweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.00

Below avg · 0.23Featherweight

UFC submissions

0

Below avg · 7%Featherweight

Submission attempts / fight

1.00

Above avg · 0.40Featherweight

KO history

Knockout power and chin durability (UFC; clean KOs only).

Masanori Kanehara

PowerChin

Knockout rate

0%

0 KO/TKO wins

Knockdowns dealt

0

0.00 per 100 head

Clean KO losses

0

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

0

0.00 per 100 head

Chin gauges use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Never finished by strikesin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

2 scorecards on file

Masanori Kanehara

Scorecard luck

Wrong end of the cards

Won just 0 of 1 coin-flip decision — repeatedly on the wrong end of close calls. Judges have given them 0 of 1 round they disagreed on (0%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

0–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

0–1

Won – Lost

0% went their way

Unanimous1 decision · 50%

1W

Split1 decision · 50%

1L

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

None scoredno 10-8 rounds in this fighter’s decisions

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC53rd

49%71 / 130

Striking accuracy

62%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+0.25 differential

Landed1.88

Absorbed1.63

63%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+11%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head63%36th45
Body30%50th21
Leg7%31st5

Color = division rank · green elite → red low · % = share of strikes

Sig. strikes by position

65%Standing

Standing65%46
Clinch17%12
Ground18%13

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Masanori Kanehara

Landed per 15

Head

F

14th

18.2

14th

Body

D

38th

8.5

38th

Leg

F

8th

2.0

8th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

A+

96th

12.9

96th

Body

A+

97th

2.8

97th

Leg

B

67th

5.7

67th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	18.2	45	97	46%
Body	8.5	21	27	78%
Leg	2.0	5	6	83%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	12.9	32	123	26%
Body	2.8	7	19	37%
Leg	5.7	14	17	82%

UFCStats career rates, per 15 minutes. Percentiles vs the division; absorbed is inverted so higher is better.

Grappling

Per-15-minute breakdown of takedowns, submissions, and ground control.

UFC only

Masanori Kanehara

67%

Takedown accuracy

64%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min+4.8 min net

On top7.3

On bottom2.5

Offense

Takedowns

B

59th

1.6

59th

TD accuracy

67%

Sub attempts

A

73rd

1.2

73rd

Control

A

83rd

7.3 min

83rd

Defense

TD defense

C

55th

64%

55th

Controlled

2.5 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	4 / 6
Submission attempts	3
Control time	18:01

Defense

TDs defended	7 / 11
Control absorbed	6:08

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (37min total). Value colors reflect the per-15 rate’s percentile against the current weight class baseline; raw totals without a division reference stay neutral.

Pace & fade

Round-by-round work rate, and whether they fade.

UFC only

Masanori Kanehara

3 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 37 min

92%

R3 pace · 2 bouts

Kanehara fades (-8% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Kanehara keeps 92% of round-1 output by round 3 (2 bouts).

Kanehara ▼ FADESOutput / min

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Kaneharalanded / min

Takedown attempts

Kaneharaattempts / min

Control time

Kanehara% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	4.5	1.9	1.3	0.20	48%	3
R2	4.7	1.3	1.2	0.16	71%	3
R3	3.7	2.6	1.8	0.10	21%	2

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Opponent quality, ranked across the UFC. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Masanori Kanehara

3 resolved UFC bouts · 2 ranked at the time

Schedule Score

38/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

A+

91st

68%

91st

Win quality

F

12th

25%

12th

Limited UFC sample (3 bouts). The headline Schedule Score is held toward a rookie baseline until a fighter has 6+ UFC bouts — a thin UFC résumé hasn’t yet proven a strong schedule. The component bars above are not down-weighted.

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

1

2

Top-5Ranked #1–#5 at the time
Top-15Ranked #6–#15 at the time

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Top-5	1	0-1	0%
Top-15	2	1-1	50%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

Pre-UFC opposition

Strong

Opponents' combined record

734-477-119

.606 win rate

Winning-record opponents

29 of 45

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

45

all opponents have records on file

A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Michael McDonald#8	Top-5	82	Jan 2, 2016
L	Rani Yahya	Top-15	52	Jul 15, 2015
W	Alex Caceres#10	Top-15	68	Sep 20, 2014

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.

Career cohorts

3 resolved UFC bouts

Performance broken down by situation — camp length, response to the previous result, title-fight presence, and rematches. Computed across every completed UFC bout.

Camp length

Days between fights

Short turnaround

< 100 days

—

Typical camp

100–180 days

0-1

1 bout

Long layoff

> 180 days

0-1

1 bout

UFC debut

first UFC bout

1-0

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

0-1

1 bout

After a win

next bout after a win

0-1

1 bout

First UFC bout

no precedent

1-0

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

—

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

—

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

—

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

—

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

—

Activity & layoff

Last fight, activity, and divisional context.

Time since last UFC bout

11 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Masanori Kanehara

Within a year

11 monthssince last bout

vs Ren Sugiyama · Jul 27, 2025

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 0-1As underdog 1-1

54.9

DK avg

45.5

Median

80.3

Ceiling

38.8

Floor

33%

Boom

0%

Bust

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