Kohi
Takayuki Kohiruimaki
Kyokushin base carried into K-1 rules: conditioned to the body, dangerous with the head kick, learning hand defence along the way.
Takayuki Kohiruimaki came into K-1 MAX from Kyokushin, which is the most common route into the Japanese lighter divisions and leaves a recognisable signature: heavy body conditioning, head kicks as a genuine finishing weapon, and a period of learning head defence in public because nothing had ever been thrown at his head with a fist.
He fought through the strongest years of MAX, in a division containing Masato, Buakaw, Souwer and Petrosyan, which is a hard place to build a record and an easy place to be remembered as a supporting name. His 40–20–2 is a fair reflection of competing at that level for a decade.
He later competed under the ring name Taishin, which is why his Wikipedia article sits at that title — a mismatch our sourcing process had to resolve before accepting the record.