Yuji Sakuragi
16–25 · 42 recorded bouts · 2000–2016
16–25
Yuji Sakuragi finished 88% of 16 wins inside the distance — the 73rd percentile for middleweight MMA, where the median is 78%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.
SOURCE·Yuji Sakuragi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-19
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 2026-05-19. 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 244 middleweight 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 | L | Luis Santos | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2015 | W | Kang Chul Yoon | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2015 | L | Alan Baudot | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2014 | W | Shungo Oyama | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2014 | L | Aleksey Shapovalov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2013 | L | Kazuhiro Nakamura | Submission | 3 |
| 2013 | L | Ryuta Sakurai | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Daiju Takase | Submission | 2 |
| 2012 | W | Sanae Kikuta | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | W | Kazuo Takahashi | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2012 | L | Shinso Anzai | Decision | 2 |
| 2011 | L | Kazuhisa Tazawa | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | D | Ryo Kawamura | Draw | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Alexander Grinchuk | Decision | 3 |
| 2010 | L | Christian M'Pumbu | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Alavutdin Gadjiev | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2009 | L | Hans Stringer | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2009 | W | Minoru Kato | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Rogent Lloret | Decision | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Stefan Struve | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Kamil Uygun | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Besiki Gerenava | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2008 | W | Kenichi Shinohara | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | D | Hidetada Irie | Draw | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Yuki Kondo | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | L | Katsuhisa Fujii | Decision | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Basil Yamilkhanov | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Nikolai Onikienko | Decision | 2 |
| 2007 | L | Yasuhito Namekawa | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Fabiano Aoki | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Tatsuya Mizuno | Submission | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Riki Fukuda | Decision | 2 |
| 2006 | L | Poai Suganuma | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Hikaru Sato | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Jimmy Akishige | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Hideki Tadao | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Yuta Nakamura | Decision | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Aslan Dzeboev | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | L | Kazuo Takahashi | Submission | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Kengo Watanabe | KO/TKO | 3 |
| 2004 | W | Sung Chu Kim | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | L | Eduard Churakov | Decision | 3 |
16 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Yuji Sakuragi — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-05-19
What is on record
| Reach | not recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70.9″ (180 cm) | |
| Stance | — | |
| Division | Middleweight MMA competed at 3: heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 27 of 42 dated bouts | |
| Country | Japan |
Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Yuji Sakuragi, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.
Record
MMA record
16–25
43 bouts on record
Finish rate
88%
of wins ended inside the distance — middleweight MMA median 78%, 73rd percentile
The career, bout by bout
42 recorded bouts from 2000 to 2016. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
17y
2000–2016
Longest unbeaten run
2
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2005
6 bouts
Recorded bouts
42
42 with a date
Records in more than one sport
Every incumbent database is siloed by sport. Yuji Sakuragi competed in 2, so the records sit together here.
| Discipline | Won | Lost | By KO |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMA | 16 | 25 | 14 |
| Kickboxing | 4 | 8 | 1 |
What this record does and does not say
- What is Yuji Sakuragi's record?
- 16–25 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 42 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.
