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Japan
Satsumasendai, Kagoshima
Yuya Wakamatsu
"
Little Piranha
"
AGE
29
/
Feb 9, 1995
HEIGHT
5'5"
/
165.1 cm
WEIGHT
139 lbs
/
63.05 kg
ASSOCIATION
Tribe Tokyo MMA
CLASS
Featherweight
Wins
18
KO
/
TKO
12
67%
SUBMISSIONS
0
0%
DECISIONS
6
33%
Losses
6
KO
/
TKO
2
33%
SUBMISSIONS
3
50%
DECISIONS
1
17%
Upcoming Fights
One Championship
March 23, 2025
Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan
Yuya Wakamatsu
18-6-0 (WIN-LOSS-DRAW)
Adriano Moraes
21-5-0 (WIN-LOSS-DRAW)
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FIGHT HISTORY - PRO
Result
Fighter
Event
Method/
Referee
R
Time
win
Gilbert Nakatani
One Championship - One on Prime Video 26
Dec / 06 / 2024
Decision (Unanimous)
Herb Dean
3
5:00
win
Danny Kingad
One Championship - One 165: Superlek vs. Takeru
Jan / 28 / 2024
Decision (Unanimous)
Herb Dean
3
5:00
win
Wei Xie
One Championship - One on Prime Video 12: Superlek vs. Khalilov
Jul / 14 / 2023
TKO (Punches)
Mohamad Sulaiman
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1
2:03
loss
Sung Hoon Woo
One Championship - One 163: Akimoto vs. Petchtanong
Nov / 19 / 2022
TKO (Elbows and Punches)
Olivier Coste
1
2:46
loss
Adriano Moraes
One Championship - One X
Mar / 26 / 2022
Submission (Guillotine Choke)
Mohamad Sulaiman
3
3:58
win
Yong Hu
One Championship - Winter Warriors
Dec / 03 / 2021
Decision (Unanimous)
Justin Brown
3
5:00
win
Reece McLaren
One Championship - One on TNT 3
Apr / 07 / 2021
Decision (Unanimous)
Mohamad Sulaiman
3
5:00
win
Kyu Sung Kim
One Championship - Inside the Matrix 2
Oct / 30 / 2020
KO (Punch)
Justin Brown
1
1:46
win
Dae Hwan Kim
One Championship - Century - Part 1
Oct / 12 / 2019
Decision (Unanimous)
Kemp Cheng
3
5:00
win
Geje Eustaquio
One Championship - Dawn of Heroes
Aug / 02 / 2019
KO (Punch)
Kemp Cheng
1
1:59
loss
Demetrious Johnson
One Championship - A New Era
Mar / 31 / 2019
Submission (Guillotine Choke)
Olivier Coste
2
2:40
loss
Danny Kingad
One Championship - Conquest of Heroes
Sep / 22 / 2018
Decision (Unanimous)
Olivier Coste
3
5:00
win
Mamoru Yamaguchi
Pancrase 297 - Sato vs. Franca
Jul / 01 / 2018
TKO (Punches)
Motohiro Tsuruwa
2
0:39
loss
Senzo Ikeda
Pancrase 293 - Senzo vs. Wakamatsu
Feb / 04 / 2018
TKO (Knees and Elbows)
Motohiro Tsuruwa
5
2:18
win
Shohei Masumizu
Pancrase - 290
Oct / 08 / 2017
TKO (Punches)
Junichi Ota
2
2:53
win
Takahiro Furumaki
Pancrase - 287
May / 28 / 2017
KO (Punch)
Motohiro Tsuruwa
2
2:27
win
Yuki Uejima
Pancrase - 285
Mar / 12 / 2017
TKO (Punches)
Junichi Ota
1
2:49
win
Yusuke Ogikubo
Pancrase - 283
Dec / 18 / 2016
Decision (Split)
Kenji Kosuge
3
3:00
win
Kazuhisa Tanaka
Pancrase - 280
Sep / 11 / 2016
KO (Knee to the Body)
Junichi Ota
1
2:06
win
Masayuki Watanabe
Pancrase - 278
Jun / 12 / 2016
TKO (Punches)
Motohiro Tsuruwa
3
1:35
win
Naoki Tanada
Pancrase - 276
Mar / 13 / 2016
TKO (Punches)
Akira Yamazaki
1
2:50
win
Sadashi Hamamatsu
Pancrase - 274
Dec / 20 / 2015
TKO (Punches)
Yoshinori Umeki
1
0:40
win
Yoshinari Shinba
Zst - Zst 48 / Zst Challenge 148
Oct / 18 / 2015
KO (Punches)
1
2:37
loss
Yuto Sekiguchi
Vale Tudo Japan - VTJ in Osaka
Jun / 21 / 2015
Submission (Armbar)
Naoya Uematsu
1
2:43
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