Naoki Inoue Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

ResultOpponentMethodDetailEvent

L

Matt Schnell

Flyweight · Decision · Split · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards · Jun 23, 2018

Decision

R3 · 5:00

Split

UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards

Jun 23, 2018

W

Carls John De Tomas

Flyweight · Decision · Unanimous · R3 · 5:00

UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia · Jun 17, 2017

Decision

R3 · 5:00

Unanimous

UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Correia

Jun 17, 2017

Outside the UFC

20-4across 24 bouts · 4 promotions · wins by 2 KO · 9 sub · 9 decRIZIN · Deep · PFL · CFFC 72

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Marcirley Alves15-5	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	PFL	May 23, 2026
L	Danny Sabatello18-4-1	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	RIZIN	Dec 31, 2025
W	Ryuya Fukuda26-10-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RIZIN	Jul 27, 2025
W	Yuki Motoya39-14	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	RIZIN	Mar 30, 2025
W	Soo Chul Kim24-9-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	3:55	RIZIN	Sep 29, 2024
W	Shoko Sato38-17-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RIZIN	Mar 23, 2024
L	Juan Archuleta31-7	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RIZIN	May 6, 2023
W	Kenta Takizawa15-13	Submission	Kimura	R2	3:53	RIZIN	Dec 31, 2022
L	Hiromasa Ougikubo30-9-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RIZIN	Dec 31, 2021
W	Yuto Hokamura16-16-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RIZIN	Sep 19, 2021
W	Shintaro Ishiwatari26-9-4	KO/TKO	Punches and Soccer Kick	R1	1:58	RIZIN	Jun 13, 2021
W	Yuki Motoya39-14	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	3:00	RIZIN	Dec 31, 2020
W	Shuto Watanabe29-9-5	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	1:40	RIZIN	Aug 9, 2020
W	Trent Girdham17-7-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	RIZIN	Feb 22, 2020
W	Toshiaki Kitada16-13-4	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:41	Deep	Dec 15, 2019
L	Sean Santella24-9-2	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	CFFC 72	Feb 16, 2019
W	Tomohiro Adaniya19-18-3	Decision	Majority	R2	5:00	Deep	Mar 18, 2017
W	Yuya Shibata19-8	Submission	Armbar	R2	2:51	Deep	Oct 9, 2016
W	Go Minamide11-6-1	Decision	Majority	R2	5:00	Deep	Aug 27, 2016
W	Naoyuki Kato11-11-3	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	0:44	Deep	Jun 12, 2016
W	Iyori Akiba3-2	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	4:32	Deep	Apr 23, 2016
W	Chikara Shimabukuro15-21-4	Decision	Unanimous	R2	5:00	Deep	Dec 20, 2015
W	Kenji Yamanaka11-10-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:21	Deep	May 16, 2015
W	Kanta Sato10-4	Submission	Armbar	R1	2:49	Deep	Mar 8, 2015

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

Amateur

4-0across 4 amateur bouts · 1 promotionDeep

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Tomonaga Icho7-9-1	Submission	Armbar	R1	0:49	Deep	Feb 1, 2015
W	Takuya Maruoka1-5-1	Submission	Armbar	R1	3:21	Deep	Feb 1, 2015
W	Kenichi Kimura0-3	Decision	Unanimous	R2	3:00	Deep	Mar 2, 2014
W	Gaku Sakamoto4-4	Submission	Armbar	R1	3:04	Deep	Feb 9, 2014

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

2 wins, 0 losses

W2

L0

Submission

9 wins, 0 losses

W9

L0

Decision

10 wins, 5 losses

W10

L5

Finishes

UFC KOs

0

Below avg · 10%Bantamweight

Knockdowns / fight

0.00

Below avg · 0.24Bantamweight

UFC submissions

0

Below avg · 8%Bantamweight

Submission attempts / fight

2.50

Above avg · 0.37Bantamweight

KO history

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

Naoki Inoue

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 strikes · Never submittedin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

2 scorecards on file

Naoki Inoue

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

3 rounds total

3

Won

0

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC44th

35%110 / 312

Striking accuracy

60%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+0.30 differential

Landed3.67

Absorbed3.37

60%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-5%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Naoki Inoue

Landed per 15

Head

A

78th

41.0

78th

Body

F

2nd

2.0

2nd

Leg

A

82nd

12.0

82nd

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

C

54th

31.0

54th

Body

A+

96th

3.0

96th

Leg

F

8th

16.5

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.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	41.0	82	267	31%
Body	2.0	4	7	57%
Leg	12.0	24	38	63%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	31.0	62	194	32%
Body	3.0	6	15	40%
Leg	16.5	33	48	69%

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

Naoki Inoue

0%

Takedown accuracy

60%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min+4.0 min net

On top4.6

On bottom0.6

Offense

Takedowns

C

42nd

0.0

42nd

TD accuracy

0%

Sub attempts

A+

87th

2.5

87th

Control

B

66th

4.6 min

66th

Defense

TD defense

60%

Controlled

0.6 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	0 / 3
Submission attempts	5
Control time	9:15

Defense

TDs defended	3 / 5
Control absorbed	1:17

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (30min 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

Naoki Inoue

2 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 30 min

160%

R3 pace · 2 bouts

Inoue builds (+22% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Inoue lifts to 160% of round-1 output by round 3 (2 bouts).

Inoue ▲ BUILDSOutput / 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

Inouelanded / min

Takedown attempts

Inoueattempts / min

Control time

Inoue% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	3.9	2.6	3.0	0.00	32%	2
R2	5.5	4.7	3.8	0.00	20%	2
R3	6.2	3.7	3.3	0.30	41%	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

Naoki Inoue

2 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

30/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

C

49th

32%

49th

Win quality

F

18th

28%

18th

Limited UFC sample (2 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

Ranked 6–15Ranked #6–#15 at the time
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Ranked 6–15	1	0-1	0%
Unproven	1	1-0	100%

Highest-quality opponents

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

Pre-UFC opposition

Strong

Opponents' combined record

502-245-37

.672 win rate

Winning-record opponents

21 of 24

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

24

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	Matt Schnell	Ranked 6–15	51	Jun 23, 2018
W	Carls John De Tomas	Unproven	8	Jun 17, 2017

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

2 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

—

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

—

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 bout

3 months

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Naoki Inoue

Active

3 monthssince last bout

vs Marcirley Alves · May 23, 2026

Fight-by-fight odds & scoring

DFSAs favorite 1-1

58.30

DK avg

93.10

Median

93.10

Ceiling

23.50

Floor

50%

Boom

0%

Bust

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