Takaya Takemoto
UFC Debut
Record
Streak
W1
Age
Date of birth
- Fighting out of
- Nagoya, Aichi
- Born
- Japan
- Camp
- Alive
- Weight class
- Featherweight
- Height
- 5'5" · 165 cm
Before the UFC
Takaya Takemoto makes their UFC debut
Our striking, grappling, and schedule metrics are measured from UFC fights, so they come online after this bout. Here is the career they bring in — and how live the opposition has been.
Pre-UFC opposition
StrongOpponents' combined record
334-234-56
.588 win rate
Winning-record opponents
14 of 19
carried winning pro records
Pro bouts faced
33
19 opponents with records on file
A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.
UFC fight history
No UFC bouts on record yet.
Outside the UFC
across 33 bouts · 9 promotions · wins by 10 sub · 10 decGladiator · Pancrase · ROMAN · Fighting Nexus · BTC +4
| Res | Opponent | Outcome | Finish | Rd | Time | Promotion | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | Yuki Teramoto | Submission | Hammerlock | R1 | 5:26 | ROMAN | Jul 12, 2026 |
| L | Decision | Unanimous | R1 | 15:00 | ROMAN | Mar 15, 2026 | |
| W | Daisuke Matsumoto6-18-2 | Decision | Unanimous | R1 | 15:00 | ROMAN | Oct 11, 2025 |
| W | Godwin Amos Langbayan | Submission | Inverted Triangle Choke | R1 | 3:03 | BTC | May 14, 2025 |
| L | Trent Girdham17-7-1 | Decision | Unanimous | R3 | 5:00 | BTC | Feb 26, 2025 |
| L | Daichi Takenaka17-4-1 | Decision | Unanimous | R3 | 5:00 | Gladiator | Jul 7, 2024 |
| W | Detchadin Srosirisuphathin | Submission | Inverted Triangle Kimura | R1 | 4:25 | Gladiator | May 5, 2024 |
| W | Decision | Split | R3 | 5:00 | Gladiator | Sep 30, 2023 | |
| W | Jayson Margallo | Submission | Inverted Triangle Kimura | R1 | 3:04 | Gladiator | Jun 11, 2023 |
| W | Kunihisa Sasa10-6-1 | Decision | Split | R2 | 5:00 | Gladiator | Jun 26, 2022 |
| W | Kosuke Eda | Decision | Split | R2 | 5:00 | Gladiator | May 1, 2022 |
| L | Keita Fukushima | Decision | Unanimous | R2 | 5:00 | Gladiator | Jan 23, 2022 |
| NC | Makoto Kamaya26-16-3 | No Contest | Missed Weight | R1 | 3:24 | Gladiator | Sep 26, 2021 |
| L | Motonobu Tezuka30-18-6 | Decision | Unanimous | R3 | 5:00 | Grachan | Aug 7, 2021 |
| W | Shunichi Shimizu39-32-13 | Decision | Unanimous | R3 | 5:00 | Gladiator | Feb 7, 2021 |
| W | Shuichi Kanda | Decision | Unanimous | R3 | 5:00 | Gladiator | Feb 23, 2020 |
| W | Yuki Uejima14-12-4 | Decision | Unanimous | R2 | 5:00 | Gladiator | Jul 7, 2019 |
| W | Jin Guk Kim3-9 | Submission | Rear-Naked Choke | R1 | 0:58 | Gladiator | Apr 14, 2019 |
| L | Shuto Watanabe29-9-5 | Disqualification | Illegal Upkick | R1 | 1:54 | Fighting Nexus | Dec 16, 2018 |
| W | Yoji Saito8-9-1 | Decision | Unanimous | R2 | 5:00 | Fighting Nexus | Aug 11, 2018 |
| W | Seong Min Kim | Submission | Armbar | R1 | 1:07 | Fighting Nexus | May 6, 2018 |
| D | Shuto Watanabe29-9-5 | Draw | Split | R2 | 5:00 | Gladiator | Jan 21, 2018 |
| W | Submission | Inverted Triangle Choke | R2 | 4:09 | Gladiator | Aug 13, 2017 | |
| L | Yasuhiro Kawamura | Decision | Unanimous | R3 | 3:00 | Pancrase | Feb 5, 2017 |
| L | Jun Doi20-13-1 | Decision | Unanimous | R3 | 5:00 | Tribe Tokyo Fight | Sep 19, 2016 |
| W | Yusuke Kagiyama20-19-3 | Submission | Rear-Naked Choke | R1 | 3:59 | Pancrase | Jul 31, 2016 |
| W | Rikiya Tsujikawa | Submission | Rear-Naked Choke | R1 | 3:21 | Heat | Mar 6, 2016 |
| L | Jun Doi20-13-1 | Decision | Unanimous | R3 | 3:00 | Pancrase | Dec 23, 2015 |
| W | Masahiro Oishi31-26-9 | Decision | Unanimous | R2 | 5:00 | Grandslam MMA 3 | Sep 12, 2015 |
| L | Shuichi Kanda | KO/TKO | Elbows and Punches | R2 | 1:54 | Pancrase | May 31, 2015 |
| W | Atsuhiro Takano | Decision | Unanimous | R3 | 3:00 | Pancrase | Mar 15, 2015 |
| W | Go Yamazaki | Submission | Rear-Naked Choke | R1 | 3:32 | Heat | Sep 7, 2014 |
| L | Katsuhiro Sakanaka | Decision | Unanimous | R2 | 5:00 | Pancrase | Jan 12, 2013 |
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.