Hayato Sakurai 桜井速人
38–13 · 54 recorded bouts · 1996–2016
38–13
Hayato Sakurai 桜井速人 finished 58% of 38 wins inside the distance — the 29th percentile for lightweight MMA, where the median is 69%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Hayato Sakurai — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-19
How this record is compiled
- Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-07-19. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the
MMA recordtemplate — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one. - A bout enters the ledger with whatever fields the source states: result, opponent, method, round, year. Any field the source leaves empty stays empty here. A date that cannot be established is left blank rather than inferred, and the bout is still counted.
- A no contest is counted and printed as a no contest. It is never folded into the wins, the losses or the draws, and it never disappears to make a total balance.
- Where the article's infobox total disagrees with its own results table, both figures are published and each is labelled with where it came from. Nothing is averaged and nothing is reconciled against a second database.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 304 lightweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Bout record
Every bout the article's own results table lists, in order. A dash is a field the source leaves empty — it is not a zero and it is not a guess.
| Year | Result | Opponent | Method | Rd |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | W | Wataru Sakata | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2013 | L | Jae Suk Lim | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Phil Baroni | Decision | 3 |
| 2011 | W | Ryo Chonan | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Jason High | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Nick Diaz | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Akihiro Gono | Submission | 2 |
| 2009 | L | Marius Žaromskis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Shinya Aoki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Katsuyori Shibata | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Kuniyoshi Hironaka | Decision | 2 |
| 2008 | L | David Baron | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Hidetaka Monma | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | D | Rumina Sato | Draw | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Hidehiko Hasegawa | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Mac Danzig | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | W | Luciano Azevedo | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Olaf Alfonso | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Takanori Gomi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Joachim Hansen | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Jens Pulver | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Shinya Aoki | Decision | 3 |
| 2005 | W | Milton Vieira | Decision | 2 |
| 2004 | L | Crosley Gracie | Submission | 2 |
| 2004 | W | Brady Fink | Submission | 1 |
| 2004 | L | Rodrigo Gracie | Decision | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Daiju Takase | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Ryo Chonan | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Dave Menne | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2003 | W | Ryuki Ueyama | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Jake Shields | Decision | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Matt Hughes | KO/TKO | 4 |
| 2001 | W | Dan Gilbert | Submission | 1 |
| 2001 | L | Anderson Silva | Decision | 3 |
| 2001 | W | Jean Louis Alberch | Decision | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Frank Trigg | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2000 | W | Luiz Azeredo | Decision | 3 |
| 2000 | W | Tetsuji Kato | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Haroldo Bunn | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Brad Aird | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Marcelo Aguiar | Decision | 3 |
| 1999 | W | Jean Louis Alberch | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Damien Riccio | Decision | 1 |
| 1999 | W | James Schiavo | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Ademir Oliveira | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Sergei Bytchkov | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Ronny Rivano | Submission | 1 |
| 1998 | W | Jutaro Nakao | Decision | 3 |
| 1997 | D | Marcelo Aguiar | Draw | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Alex Cook | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Ali Elias | Submission | 1 |
| 1997 | W | Hiroyuki Kojima | Decision | 2 |
| 1997 | D | Takuya Kuwabara | Draw | 3 |
| 1996 | W | Caol Uno | Submission | 1 |
28 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Hayato Sakurai — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-07-19
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 66.9″ (170 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Lightweight MMA competed at 3: middleweight, welterweight, lightweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 32 of 54 dated bouts | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Hayato Sakurai 桜井速人, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
38–13
53 bouts on record
Finish rate
58%
of wins ended inside the distance — lightweight MMA median 69%, 29th percentile
The career, bout by bout
54 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
21y
1996–2016
Longest unbeaten run
18
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
1999
7 bouts
Recorded bouts
54
54 with a date
What this record does and does not say
- What is Hayato Sakurai 桜井速人's record?
- 38–13 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 54 bouts individually.
- Does a no contest change a record here?
- No. A no contest is not a win, a loss or a draw, and it is never folded into one. It is counted and printed separately, so a 20–0 record with two no contests is shown as exactly that rather than as 22–0 or as 20–0 with the no contests dropped. The same applies to a bout overturned after the fact where the source records the change.
- What happens when sources disagree about a fight?
- This site publishes one source — the fighter's English Wikipedia article, read on the date printed under every table — and it does not silently reconcile that against anyone else's database. Where the article's own infobox total and its own results table disagree, both are shown and the page says which one each figure came from. Nothing is averaged, and no field is filled in from a second source to make a total balance.
Where this record leads
The 304 lightweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution 桜井速人 sits inside.
304 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA32 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsHayato Sakurai 桜井速人 went 18 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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