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Hitomi Akano

61″ reach · -4.74% reach advantage · 0th percentile

MMA record

18–10

Hitomi Akano has a reach of 61″ against a height of 64″ — a reach advantage of -4.74%, unusually short for bantamweight MMA and the 0th percentile of the 101 compared here.

20002010UNFILEDloss v Megumi Yabushita, 2004, decisionwin v Keiko Tamai, 2005, submissionwin v Asako Saioka, 2005, decisionwin v Takayo Hashi, 2005, submissionwin v Kinuka Sasaki, 2005, submissionwin v Seri Saito, 2005, submissionwin v Mika Harigai, 2005, submissionwin v Keiko Tamai, 2006, submissionwin v Molly Helsel, 2006, submissionwin v Emma Bush, 2006, decisionloss v Tara LaRosa, 2006, decisionwin v Debi Purcell, 2006, decisionloss v Vanessa Porto, 2007, decisionloss v Takayo Hashi, 2007, decisionwin v Liz Posener, 2007, submissionloss v Amanda Buckner, 2007, decisionwin v Mika Harigai, 2008, submissionwin v Hiroko Yamanaka, 2008, submissionwin v Megumi Yabushita, 2008, submissionwin v Miki Morifuji, 2009, submissionloss v Cris Cyborg, 2009, koloss v Miesha Tate, 2010, decisionwin v Carina Damm, 2010, submissionloss v Hiroko Yamanaka, 2010, decisionwin v Roxanne Modafferi, 2011, decisionwin v Chisa Yonezawa, 2011, submissionloss v Alexis Davis, 2012, submissionloss v Sara McMann, 2012, decisionwin v Megumi Yabushita, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2004–2012 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Hitomi Akano — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-12-22

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2025-12-22. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
  3. A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
  4. Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 101 bantamweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

Bout record

Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2012 L Alexis Davis Submission2
2012 L Sara McMann Decision3
2011 W Roxanne Modafferi Decision2
2011 W Chisa Yonezawa Submission1
2010 L Miesha Tate Decision3
2010 W Carina Damm Submission2
2010 L Hiroko Yamanaka Decision2
2009 W Miki Morifuji Submission2
2009 L Cris Cyborg KO/TKO3
2008 W Mika Harigai Submission1
2008 W Hiroko Yamanaka Submission2
2008 W Megumi Yabushita Submission2
2007 L Vanessa Porto Decision5
2007 L Takayo Hashi Decision3
2007 W Liz Posener Submission2
2007 L Amanda Buckner Decision3
2006 W Keiko Tamai Submission2
2006 W Molly Helsel Submission2
2006 W Emma Bush Decision2
2006 L Tara LaRosa Decision3
2006 W Debi Purcell Decision2
2005 W Keiko Tamai Submission1
2005 W Asako Saioka Decision2
2005 W Takayo Hashi Submission1
2005 W Kinuka Sasaki Submission1
2005 W Seri Saito Submission2
2005 W Mika Harigai Submission1
2004 L Megumi Yabushita Decision2
undated W Megumi Yabushita Submission—

15 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Hitomi Akano — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2025-12-22

Reach in context

Reach advantage

-4.74%

61″ reach on a 64″ frame

Compared against 101 bantamweight MMA fighters. Median 1.51%.

-2.9%bantamweight MMA reach advantage8.9%
Measurements
Reach61″ (154.9 cm)0th pct
Height64″ (162.6 cm)4th pct
Stance—
DivisionBantamweight MMA
inferred from the listed weight, not stated as a class
Most active decade2000s — 21 of 28 dated bouts
CountryJapan

Record

MMA record

18–10

28 bouts on record

Finish rate

78%

of wins ended inside the distance — bantamweight MMA median 68%, 72nd percentile

Submission: 14 (78%)Decision: 4 (22%)
  • Submission 78%
  • Decision 22%

The career, bout by bout

29 recorded bouts from 2004 to 2012. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2010 loss vs Megumi Yabushita (2004)win vs Keiko Tamai (2005)win vs Asako Saioka (2005)win vs Takayo Hashi (2005)win vs Kinuka Sasaki (2005)win vs Seri Saito (2005)win vs Mika Harigai (2005)win vs Keiko Tamai (2006)win vs Molly Helsel (2006)win vs Emma Bush (2006)loss vs Tara LaRosa (2006)win vs Debi Purcell (2006)loss vs Vanessa Porto (2007)loss vs Takayo Hashi (2007)win vs Liz Posener (2007)loss vs Amanda Buckner (2007)win vs Mika Harigai (2008)win vs Hiroko Yamanaka (2008)win vs Megumi Yabushita (2008)win vs Miki Morifuji (2009)loss vs Cris Cyborg (2009)loss vs Miesha Tate (2010)win vs Carina Damm (2010)loss vs Hiroko Yamanaka (2010)win vs Roxanne Modafferi (2011)win vs Chisa Yonezawa (2011)loss vs Alexis Davis (2012)loss vs Sara McMann (2012)
winlossdraw / NC2004–2012

Career span

9y

2004–2012

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2005

6 bouts

Recorded bouts

29

28 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Hitomi Akano's record?
18–10 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 29 bouts individually.
How many of Hitomi Akano's bouts have no date?
1 of 29. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
Does a no contest change a record here?
No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.

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