Norifumi Yamamoto Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
NC	Roman Salazar Bantamweight	No Contest	—	R2	2:37	UFC 184: Rousey vs. Zingano	Feb 28, 2015
L	Vaughan Lee Bantamweight	Submission	Armbar From Bottom Guard	R1	4:29	UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson	Feb 25, 2012
L	Darren Uyenoyama Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos	Nov 12, 2011
L	Demetrious Johnson Bantamweight	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	UFC 126: Silva vs. Belfort	Feb 5, 2011

Outside the UFC

18-3, 1 NCacross 22 bouts · 7 promotions · wins by 13 KO · 2 sub · 3 decK-1 · Shooto · DREAM · K-1 MAX · K-1 HERO's +2

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Federico Lopez10-6	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:41	DREAM	May 29, 2010
L	Masanori Kanehara29-14-5	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	K-1	Dec 31, 2009
L	Joe Warren15-8	Decision	Split	R2	5:00	DREAM	May 26, 2009
W	Rani Yahya28-12-1	KO/TKO	Punches and Soccer Kicks	R2	3:11	K-1	Dec 31, 2007
W	Bibiano Fernandes25-6	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	K-1 HERO's	Sep 17, 2007
W	Istvan Majoros0-1	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	3:46	K-1	Dec 31, 2006
W	Kazuyuki Miyata16-9	KO/TKO	Flying Knee	R1	0:04	K-1	May 3, 2006
W	Genki Sudo15-4-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	4:39	K-1	Dec 31, 2005
W	Caol Uno35-23-5	KO/TKO	Cut	R2	4:04	K-1	Sep 7, 2005
W	Royler Gracie5-5-1	KO/TKO	Punch	R2	0:38	K-1	Sep 7, 2005
W	Ian James Schaffa7-9-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R3	1:23	K-1	Jul 6, 2005
W	Narantungalag Jadambaa14-6	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	1:55	K-1	Oct 13, 2004
W	Kazuya Yasuhiro0-3	Submission	Armbar	R2	2:40	K-1 MAX	Jul 7, 2004
W	Tony Valente0-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	0:58	K-1 MAX	Apr 7, 2004
W	Caleb Mitchell5-4	KO/TKO	Punch	R1	0:40	Shooto	Sep 5, 2003
W	Jeff Curran36-18-1	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	SB 29	May 9, 2003
W	Tetsuo Katsuta7-5-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	2:45	Shooto	Sep 16, 2002
L	Stephen Palling11-7-1	KO/TKO	Cut	R1	0:30	Shooto	May 5, 2002
NC	Josh Thomson22-9	No Contest	Yamamoto Kicked in Groin	R2	2:00	Shogun 1	Dec 15, 2001
W	Hideki Kadowaki17-17-3	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	4:02	Shooto	Sep 2, 2001
W	Masashi Kameda2-6-3	KO/TKO	Punch	R1	4:17	Shooto	Jul 6, 2001
W	Masato Shiozawa7-2	Decision	Unanimous	R2	5:00	Shooto	Mar 2, 2001

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.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

13 wins, 1 loss

W13

L1

Submission

2 wins, 1 loss

W2

L1

Decision

3 wins, 4 losses

W3

L4

KO history

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

Norifumi Yamamoto

PowerChin

Knockout rate

—

No UFC win on record

Knockdowns dealt

—

No UFC win on record

Clean KO losses

0

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

1

3.03 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

Norifumi Yamamoto

Scorecard luck

Wrong end of the cards

No split or majority decisions on file — this read comes from contested rounds alone. Judges have given them 0 of 1 round they disagreed on (0%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

None on file

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

0–1

Won – Lost

0% went their way

Unanimous2 decisions · 100%

2L

Split

None

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

1 round total

0

Won

1

Lost

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC51st

45%52 / 142

Striking accuracy

57%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min+0.08 differential

Landed2.09

Absorbed2.01

51%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

+2%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Strike maps

Sig. strikes by target

Head73%36th38
Body21%40th11
Leg6%32nd3

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

Sig. strikes by position

79%Standing

Standing79%41
Clinch17%9
Ground4%2

Striking zones

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

UFC only

Norifumi Yamamoto

Landed per 15

Head

F

15th

16.5

15th

Body

F

16th

4.8

16th

Leg

F

5th

1.3

5th

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+

93rd

14.4

93rd

Body

C

57th

9.6

57th

Leg

A

71st

5.2

71st

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	16.5	38	123	31%
Body	4.8	11	16	69%
Leg	1.3	3	3	100%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	14.4	33	106	31%
Body	9.6	22	27	81%
Leg	5.2	12	17	71%

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

Norifumi Yamamoto

25%

Takedown accuracy

37%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-1.9 min net

On top2.3

On bottom4.2

Offense

Takedowns

C

51st

0.9

51st

TD accuracy

D

35th

25%

35th

Sub attempts

C

53rd

0.0

53rd

Control

C

53rd

2.3 min

53rd

Defense

TD defense

F

18th

37%

18th

Controlled

4.2 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	2 / 8
Submission attempts	0
Control time	5:16

Defense

TDs defended	7 / 19
Control absorbed	9:37

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (34min 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

Norifumi Yamamoto

3 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 34 min

83%

R3 pace · 2 bouts

Yamamoto fades (-32% per round through round 3). Within fights that reached round 3, Yamamoto drops to 83% of round-1 output by round 3 (2 bouts).

Yamamoto ▼ 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

Yamamotolanded / min

Takedown attempts

Yamamotoattempts / min

Control time

Yamamoto% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	4.0	2.4	2.3	0.28	19%	3
R2	1.6	0.9	1.7	0.20	2%	2
R3	2.3	0.8	1.6	0.20	23%	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

Norifumi Yamamoto

4 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

29/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

F

19th

20%

19th

Win quality

F

15th

27%

15th

Limited UFC sample (4 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

Cross-div champHeld a title in another weight class at the time
Cross-div rankedRanked #1–#15 in another division at the time
UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Cross-div champ	1	0-1	0%
Cross-div ranked	1	0-1	0%
Unproven	2	0-1, 1 NC	0%

Highest-quality opponents

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

Pre-UFC opposition

Strong

Opponents' combined record

306-175-26

.636 win rate

Winning-record opponents

15 of 22

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

22

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
NC	Roman Salazar	Unproven	8	Feb 28, 2015
L	Vaughan Lee	Unproven	8	Feb 25, 2012
L	Darren Uyenoyama	Cross-div ranked	32	Nov 12, 2011
L	Demetrious Johnson	Cross-div champ	54	Feb 5, 2011

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

0-1

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

0-2

2 bouts

After a win

next bout after a win

—

First UFC bout

no precedent

0-1

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

11y 4mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Norifumi Yamamoto

Extended layoff

11y 4mosince last bout

vs Roman Salazar · Feb 28, 2015

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs favorite 0-3

16.0

DK avg

14.6

Median

25.9

Ceiling

7.4

Floor

0%

Boom

67%

Bust

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