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Kana Watanabe

66″ reach · 0% reach advantage · 27th percentile

MMA record

13–5

Kana Watanabe has a reach of 66″ against a height of 66″ — a reach advantage of 0%, short for flyweight MMA and the 27th percentile of the 82 compared here.

20102020win v Shizuka Sugiyama, 2017, decisionwin v Hikari Sato, 2017, submissionwin v Shizuka Sugiyama, 2018, kowin v Asami Nakai, 2018, submissionwin v Yukari Nabe, 2018, decisionwin v Ilara Joanne, 2019, kowin v Kang Hee-eun, 2019, submissionwin v Justyna Haba, 2019, decisionwin v Kang Soo-min, 2019, koloss v Liz Carmouche, 2021, kowin v Alejandra Lara, 2021, decisionwin v Denise Kielholtz, 2022, submissionwin v Veta Arteaga, 2023, decisionloss v Ilima-Lei Macfarlane, 2023, decisionloss v Liz Carmouche, 2024, submissionwin v Shanna Young, 2024, decisionloss v Jena Bishop, 2025, decisionloss v Paulina Wiśniewska, 2026, ko
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 2017–2026

SOURCE·Kana Watanabe — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29

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 2026-07-29. 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 82 flyweight 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
2026 L Paulina Wiśniewska KO/TKO2
2025 L Jena Bishop Decision3
2024 L Liz Carmouche Submission3
2024 W Shanna Young Decision3
2023 W Veta Arteaga Decision3
2023 L Ilima-Lei Macfarlane Decision3
2022 W Denise Kielholtz Submission2
2021 L Liz Carmouche KO/TKO1
2021 W Alejandra Lara Decision3
2019 W Ilara Joanne KO/TKO3
2019 W Kang Hee-eun Submission1
2019 W Justyna Haba Decision3
2019 W Kang Soo-min KO/TKO1
2018 W Shizuka Sugiyama KO/TKO1
2018 W Asami Nakai Submission1
2018 W Yukari Nabe Decision3
2017 W Shizuka Sugiyama Decision3
2017 W Hikari Sato Submission2

8 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Kana Watanabe — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-29

Reach in context

Reach advantage

0%

66″ reach on a 66″ frame

Compared against 82 flyweight MMA fighters. Median 1.51%.

-4.7%flyweight MMA reach advantage5.9%
Measurements
Reach66″ (167.6 cm)39th pct
Height66″ (167.6 cm)54th pct
StanceOrthodox
DivisionFlyweight MMA
Most active decade2010s — 9 of 18 dated bouts
CountryJapan

Record

MMA record

13–5

19 bouts on record

Finish rate

54%

of wins ended inside the distance — flyweight MMA median 58%, 42nd percentile

KO/TKO: 3 (23%)Submission: 4 (31%)Decision: 6 (46%)
  • KO/TKO 23%
  • Submission 31%
  • Decision 46%

The career, bout by bout

18 recorded bouts from 2017 to 2026. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

2020 win vs Shizuka Sugiyama (2017)win vs Hikari Sato (2017)win vs Shizuka Sugiyama (2018)win vs Asami Nakai (2018)win vs Yukari Nabe (2018)win vs Ilara Joanne (2019)win vs Kang Hee-eun (2019)win vs Justyna Haba (2019)win vs Kang Soo-min (2019)loss vs Liz Carmouche (2021)win vs Alejandra Lara (2021)win vs Denise Kielholtz (2022)win vs Veta Arteaga (2023)loss vs Ilima-Lei Macfarlane (2023)loss vs Liz Carmouche (2024)win vs Shanna Young (2024)loss vs Jena Bishop (2025)loss vs Paulina Wiśniewska (2026)
winlossdraw / NC2017–2026

Career span

10y

2017–2026

Longest unbeaten run

9

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

2019

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

18

18 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Kana Watanabe's record?
13–5 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 18 bouts individually.
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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