Hideki Kadowaki

Hideki Kadowaki is one of those fighters who exists mostly in the margins of the public record, and honestly there's something kind of fitting about that for a mixed martial artist — the whole sport is built on the unglamorous stuff that happens behind closed doors, the thousand rounds of sparring nobody films, the weight cuts nobody posts about. Born in 1976 in Ichihara, Chiba — an industrial city that doesn't exactly scream celebrity hometown — he's a Gemini, which in my completely unscientific estimation tracks well for a fighter: adaptable, quick-reading, hard to pin down. I don't know much about his specific career record or where he competed, and I'd rather say that plainly than dress up guesses as facts. What I do know is that anyone who commits to MMA as a career in Japan during that era had to be genuinely obsessed with the craft, and that kind of obsession deserves at least a nod.

Hideki Kadowaki is a Japanese mixed martial artist born on May 28, 1976, in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture. He is a Gemini born in the Year of the Dragon. Detailed career and personal information has not been made public.

Name (English)

Hideki Kadowaki

Name (Japanese)

門脇英基

Reading

かどわき ひでき

Born

May 28, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dragon (辰)

Origin

Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Mixed Martial Artist

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%96%80%E8%84%87%E8%8B%B1%E5%9F%BA

Tags

• From Chiba Prefecture
• Mixed Martial Artist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.