Yuji Sakuragi
16–25 · 42 recorded bouts · 2000–2016
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.
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 | |
| Peak era | 2000s | |
| 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
Fights
| 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.
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 |
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 244 middleweight 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: Yuji Sakuragi on English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), as of 2026-05-19. Percentiles and derived figures computed here.