Hayato Sakurai 桜井速人
38–13 · 54 recorded bouts · 1996–2016
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.
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 | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| 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
Fights
| 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.
How this is worked out
- Measurements and records are read from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the fight list is parsed from the article's own results table.
- Reach advantage is (reach − height) ÷ height as a percentage, so fighters of different sizes compare directly.
- Percentiles rank this fighter among the 304 lightweight MMA fighters in the dataset — chosen because it is the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
Reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
Source: Hayato Sakurai on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-07-19. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.