Hideki Kadowaki

Hideki Kadowaki is the kind of fighter whose record rewards a closer look. He turned pro with Shooto in 2000, won its lightweight rookie tournament in 2002, submitted Rumina Sato in 2007 and took the Shooto World Lightweight title from Akitoshi Tamura in 2008 before losing it later that year — all built on the unglamorous stuff that happens behind closed doors, the thousand rounds of sparring nobody films, the weight cuts nobody posts about. 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.

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Hideki Kadowaki is a Japanese mixed martial artist born on May 28, 1976, in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture. A professional since 2000, he has competed for Shooto, DEEP and World Victory Road, won the Shooto lightweight rookie tournament in 2002 and held the Shooto World Lightweight title in 2008.

Name (English)

Hideki Kadowaki

Name (Japanese)

門脇英基

Reading

かどわき ひでき

Born

March 28, 1976 (age 50)

Origin

Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Mixed Martial Artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%96%80%E8%84%87%E8%8B%B1%E5%9F%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5752381

Tags

• From Chiba Prefecture
• Mixed Martial Artist

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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