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Yutaka Saito

4-13 · Featherweight · RIZIN Fighting Federation

GLOBAL RATING36.0Evidence 86%#411 indexed Featherweight
SCOUT SCORE4.0#4414 current pool · #117 Featherweight

Scouting interest, not current strength.

Global Rating measures opponent-adjusted ability. Scout Score asks how interesting this fighter is to scout right now. Evidence 86% is shown separately and does not add points.

Age-adjusted16.5Trajectory20.7Vs expectation16.2Activity18.6
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Global Skill43.5

Chronological fight-graph strength.

Résumé61.7

Quality and breadth of proven wins.

Schedule60.1

Strength of opponents actually faced.

Recent Form16.2

Recent results versus expectation.

Finishing28.8

Quality-adjusted finishing production.

RECRUITING INTELLIGENCE

Recruiting file

ManagementUnknown
ContractUnknown
Open toNot publicly verified
VERIFICATION

What we actually know

Missing public evidence stays unknown. MMA Scouts never labels a fighter unmanaged or a free agent just because no contract or agency record was found.

CONTRACT & REPRESENTATION INTELLIGENCE

What is publicly known

Current contract status: Unknown. Public MMA contract reporting is often incomplete, so MMA Scouts separates reported facts from unknown terms and links every published claim to its evidence.

Contract file

No public contract terms verified yet.

MMA Scouts has not found enough public evidence to publish a deal length, remaining fights, expiration or free-agency date for this fighter. That does not mean no contract exists.

Representation file

Representation is not publicly verified.

No management record is treated as unknown—not unmanaged.

Evidence rule: release or contract expiration with one promotion does not automatically mean global free agency. Exact expirations, remaining fights, purse terms and unmanaged/free-agent labels appear only when a public source explicitly supports them.

TRAINING CAMP INTELLIGENCE

Where this fighter trains

Camp affiliation is published only when public evidence supports it, and dated to when the affiliation actually changed.

Camp file

Training camp is not publicly verified.

No camp record is treated as unknown—not campless.

COACH INTELLIGENCE

Who leads this fighter's corner

Coach affiliation is published only when public evidence supports it, and is tracked separately from training camp -- a fighter can change one without the other.

No publicly verified head coach.

No coach record is treated as unknown, not coachless.

INJURY & AVAILABILITY

Withdrawal and injury history

Published only when a promotion, fighter, camp or reputable outlet has publicly disclosed it.

No publicly reported injury or withdrawal history.

No record is treated as unknown, not a clean bill of health -- only publicly documented events are shown here.

PROFILE

Scouting file

Age38
Height173 cm
NationalityJapan
GymParaestra Koiwa
Career spanSep 19, 2016 – Jul 28, 2024
Organizations3
Title fights1 wins / 3 bouts
Finishes1 KO/TKO · 0 SUB
Avg finish round0.0
DurabilityNever finished
Data completeness85%
BEST PROVEN WINS

Résumé anchors

Opponent values are the opponent's rating state before that fight, not hindsight credit.

Mikuru AsakuraNov 21, 2020Opp. 1680
Mikuru AsakuraNov 21, 2020Opp. 1659
Hiroyuki TakayaSep 22, 2019 · FinishOpp. 1569
Takeshi InoueMay 13, 2018Opp. 1473
RECENT HISTORY

Last 20 fights

LYuta KuboJul 28, 2024 · rizin · FeatherweightTKO
LYuta KuboJul 28, 2024 · rizinTKO
LKleber Koike ErbstDec 31, 2023 · rizin · FeatherweightSubmission
LKleber Koike ErbstDec 31, 2023 · rizinSubmission
LJuntaro UshikuApr 17, 2022 · rizinDecision
LJuntaro UshikuApr 17, 2022 · rizin · FeatherweightDecision
LMikuru AsakuraDec 31, 2021 · rizinDecision
LMikuru AsakuraDec 31, 2021 · rizin · FeatherweightDecision
LJuntaro UshikuOct 24, 2021 · rizin · FeatherweightTKO
LJuntaro UshikuOct 24, 2021 · rizinTKO
WMikuru AsakuraNov 21, 2020 · rizinDecision
WMikuru AsakuraNov 21, 2020 · rizin · FeatherweightDecision
WHiroyuki TakayaSep 22, 2019 · shootoKO
LAgy SardariMay 6, 2019 · shootoDecision
WTakeshi InoueMay 13, 2018 · shootoDecision
LMike GrundyJan 29, 2017 · shootoDecision
LIsao KobayashiSep 19, 2016 · valeDecision
CAREER PATH

Promotion history

rizinNov 21, 2020 – Jul 28, 20242-10
shootoJan 29, 2017 – Sep 22, 20192-2
valeSep 19, 2016 – Sep 19, 20160-1
How this rating works

Global Scout Rating uses the same fight-graph rules for every promotion. A logo does not add points. Beating strong fighters, facing strong schedules, outperforming expectation and building credible evidence does.

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INTELLIGENCE COVERAGE

Professional intel file

8 of 17 core scouting fields currently resolved · 47.1% coverage. Missing evidence stays unknown.

ManagementUnknown
ContractUnknown
Gym / teamParaestra Koiwa
Professional baseUnknown
Fight availabilityUnknown
Open to managementUnknown
Open to teamsUnknown
Open intelligence gapsReachStanceManagementContractFight availabilityManagement availabilityTeam availabilityProfessional baseProfessional contact
SOURCE-BACKED INTEL

Verified context

No external professional-source facts have been attached yet. Warehouse scouting data remains available above.

CAREER INTELLIGENCE

Movement timeline

Promotion move: rizinNov 21, 2020 · Recorded bout after shootoStrong source
Promotion move: shootoJan 29, 2017 · Recorded bout after valeStrong source
INTEL POLICY

What MMA Scouts will and won't claim

Official promotion, management, team, fighter, commission and verified-profile sources take priority. Credible reporting can supplement them. We do not infer free agency, lack of management, availability or a team departure from missing data, and we do not publish private phone numbers, street/home addresses, exact residential locations or private email addresses.