Kazushi Sakuraba
73.5″ reach · +3.72% reach advantage · 63rd percentile
26–17
Kazushi Sakuraba has a reach of 73.5″ against a height of 70.9″ — a reach advantage of +3.72%, above average for light heavyweight MMA and the 63rd percentile of the 88 compared here.
SOURCE·Kazushi Sakuraba — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01
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 2026-08-01. 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 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.
reach advantage = (reach − height) ÷ height × 100
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | L | Shinya Aoki | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2011 | L | Yan Cabral | Submission | 2 |
| 2010 | L | Marius Žaromskis | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Jason Miller | Submission | 1 |
| 2010 | L | Ralek Gracie | Decision | 3 |
| 2009 | W | Zelg Galešić | Submission | 1 |
| 2009 | W | Rubin Williams | Submission | 1 |
| 2008 | L | Kiyoshi Tamura | Decision | 2 |
| 2008 | L | Melvin Manhoef | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2008 | W | Andrews Nakahara | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Masakatsu Funaki | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | W | Katsuyori Shibata | Submission | 1 |
| 2007 | L | Royce Gracie | Decision | 3 |
| 2007 | W | Yurij Kiselov | Submission | 1 |
| 2006 | N | Yoshihiro Akiyama | — | 1 |
| 2006 | W | Kestutis Smirnovas | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ikuhisa Minowa | Submission | 1 |
| 2005 | W | Ken Shamrock | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2005 | L | Ricardo Arona | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2005 | W | Yoon Dong-sik | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2004 | W | Nino Schembri | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | Decision | 3 |
| 2003 | W | Kevin Randleman | Submission | 3 |
| 2003 | L | Wanderlei Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2003 | L | Nino Schembri | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2002 | W | Gilles Arsene | Submission | 3 |
| 2002 | L | Mirko Cro Cop | KO/TKO | 2 |
| 2001 | L | Wanderlei Silva | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2001 | W | Quinton Jackson | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Ryan Gracie | Decision | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Shannon Ritch | Submission | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Renzo Gracie | Submission | 2 |
| 2000 | L | Igor Vovchanchyn | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 2000 | W | Guy Mezger | KO/TKO | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Royler Gracie | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Anthony Macias | Submission | 2 |
| 1999 | W | Ebenezer Fontes Braga | Submission | 1 |
| 1999 | W | Vitor Belfort | Decision | 2 |
| 1998 | D | Allan Goes | Draw | 3 |
| 1998 | W | Carlos Newton | Submission | 2 |
| 1998 | W | Vernon White | Submission | 3 |
| 1997 | W | Marcus Silveira | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | L | Kimo Leopoldo | Submission | 1 |
| 1996 | W | Rene Rooze | Submission | 1 |
| undated | W | Royce Gracie | KO/TKO | — |
| undated | N | Marcus Silveira | — | — |
31 of these opponents have their own page here.
SOURCE·Kazushi Sakuraba — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-08-01
Reach in context
Reach advantage
+3.72%
73.5″ reach on a 70.9″ frame
Compared against 88 light heavyweight MMA fighters. Median 2.68%.
| Reach | 73.5″ (186.7 cm) | 20th pct |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 70.9″ (180 cm) | 15th pct |
| Stance | Southpaw | |
| Division | Light Heavyweight MMA competed at 3: welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight — compared here against the last | |
| Most active decade | 2000s — 29 of 44 dated bouts | |
| Country | Japan |
Record
MMA record
26–17
44 bouts on record
Finish rate
88%
of wins ended inside the distance — light heavyweight MMA median 78%, 70th percentile
The career, bout by bout
46 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2015. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.
Career span
20y
1996–2015
Longest unbeaten run
11
without a loss — draws do not break it
Busiest year
2000
5 bouts
Recorded bouts
46
44 with a date
Closest in build
light heavyweight MMA fighters with the nearest reach advantage.
- Navajo Stirling+3.99% 79″ reach · 64th pct
- Roger Gracie+3.99% 79″ reach · 64th pct
- Jamahal Hill+3.99% 79″ reach · 64th pct
- Emiliano Sordi+4.04% 77″ reach · 67th pct
- Attila Végh+4.04% 77″ reach · 67th pct
- Ricardo Arona+4.05% 72.8″ reach · 69th pct
- İbo Aslan+3.36% 77.5″ reach · 61st pct
- Tomasz Drwal+4.1% 76″ reach · 70th pct
What this record does and does not say
- What is Kazushi Sakuraba's record?
- 26–17 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 46 bouts individually.
- How many of Kazushi Sakuraba's bouts have no date?
- 2 of 46. The source lists them without a date this site can read, so they are printed with no year, sorted last, and drawn past the double rule in the record line rather than placed in the chronology. No year has been inferred for any of them.
- 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 185 light heavyweight MMA fighters this record is ranked against, and the distribution Sakuraba sits inside.
185 FIGHTERS 2000s MMA29 of these bouts fall in the 2000s. This is what the rest of that decade's records look like.
541 FIGHTERS Longest unbeaten runsKazushi Sakuraba went 11 without a loss. This is where that sits against every run on the site.
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