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Yuki Nakai 中井祐樹

8–2 · 11 recorded bouts · 1993–1995

MMA record

8–2

Yuki Nakai 中井祐樹 finished 88% of 8 wins inside the distance — the 84th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

1990UNFILEDloss v Noboru Asahi, 1993, decisionwin v Masakazu Kuramochi, 1993, submissionwin v Hiroki Noritsugi, 1993, submissionwin v Kazuhiro Kusayanagi, 1994, decisiondraw v Arthur Cathiard, 1994, drawwin v Kyuhei Ueno, 1994, submissionwin v Jun Kikawada, 1994, submissionloss v Rickson Gracie, 1995, submissionwin v Hiraoki Matsutani, 1995, submissionwin v Craig Pittman, no date on recordwin v Gerard Gordeau, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1993–1995 · 2 UNDATED

SOURCE·Yuki Nakai — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-19

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 2026-07-19. 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 304 lightweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

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
1995 L Rickson Gracie Submission1
1995 W Hiraoki Matsutani Submission1
1994 W Kazuhiro Kusayanagi Decision4
1994 D Arthur Cathiard Draw3
1994 W Kyuhei Ueno Submission5
1994 W Jun Kikawada Submission1
1993 L Noboru Asahi Decision5
1993 W Masakazu Kuramochi Submission2
1993 W Hiroki Noritsugi Submission1
undated W Craig Pittman Submission—
undated W Gerard Gordeau Submission—

3 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Yuki Nakai — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-19

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height66″ (167.6 cm)
Stance—
DivisionLightweight MMA
inferred from the listed weight, not stated as a class
Most active decade1990s — 9 of 9 dated bouts
CountryJapan

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Yuki Nakai 中井祐樹, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

loss vs Noboru Asahi (1993)win vs Masakazu Kuramochi (1993)win vs Hiroki Noritsugi (1993)win vs Kazuhiro Kusayanagi (1994)draw vs Arthur Cathiard (1994)win vs Kyuhei Ueno (1994)win vs Jun Kikawada (1994)loss vs Rickson Gracie (1995)win vs Hiraoki Matsutani (1995)
winlossdraw / NC1993–1995

Record

MMA record

8–2

11 bouts on record

Finish rate

88%

of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 84th percentile

Submission: 7 (88%)Decision: 1 (13%)
  • Submission 88%
  • Decision 13%

The career, bout by bout

11 recorded bouts from 1993 to 1995. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

3y

1993–1995

Longest unbeaten run

5

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1994

4 bouts

Recorded bouts

11

9 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Yuki Nakai 中井祐樹's record?
8–2 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 11 bouts individually.
How many of Yuki Nakai 中井祐樹's bouts have no date?
2 of 11. 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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