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Ryuta Sakurai 桜井隆多

30–28 · 65 recorded bouts · 1996–2024

MMA record

30–28

Ryuta Sakurai 桜井隆多 finished 77% of 30 wins inside the distance — the 61st percentile for welterweight MMA, where the median is 73%. No reach is on record, so this page compares record rather than measurements.

1990200020102020UNFILEDloss v Hiroyuki Yoshioka, 1996, submissionwin v Katsuhisa Fujii, 1996, decisionloss v Masanori Suda, 1997, submissiondraw v Izuru Takeuchi, 1998, drawwin v Masashi Kita, 1998, kodraw v Izuru Takeuchi, 1999, drawloss v Jun Kitagawa, 1999, decisionloss v Yuki Sasaki, 1999, submissionloss v Cyrille Diabate, 1999, kowin v Nobuhiro Tsurumaki, 1999, kowin v Nathan Schouteren, 2001, submissionloss v Shiko Yamashita, 2001, decisionwin v Jun Kitagawa, 2002, kodraw v Masato Nishiguchi, 2002, drawdraw v Marcelo Machado, 2002, drawwin v Hirohide Fujinuma, 2003, submissionloss v Eiji Ishikawa, 2003, kowin v John Renken, 2003, submissionwin v Yuichi Nakanishi, 2003, decisionwin v Ryuki Ueyama, 2004, kowin v David Bielkheden, 2004, decisionloss v Yushin Okami, 2004, decisionwin v Tetsuya Onose, 2004, koloss v Paulo Filho, 2005, submissionwin v Yasuhito Namekawa, 2005, submissionloss v Murilo Bustamante, 2005, decisionwin v Geovani Pereira, 2006, submissionwin v Xavier Foupa-Pokam, 2006, submissionloss v Ryo Chonan, 2006, kowin v Eiji Ishikawa, 2007, koloss v Murilo Bustamante, 2007, koloss v Ryo Chonan, 2007, decisionwin v Sojiro Orui, 2008, decisionwin v Kozo Urita, 2008, submissionwin v Young Choi, 2008, decisionloss v Riki Fukuda, 2008, decisionwin v Hiroki Sato, 2009, kowin v Hosea Ware, 2009, submissiondraw v Hiromitsu Kanehara, 2009, drawloss v Riki Fukuda, 2009, koloss v Riki Fukuda, 2010, kodraw v Mamed Khalidov, 2010, drawwin v Katsuyori Shibata, 2011, kowin v Yoshiyuki Nakanishi, 2011, submissionwin v Hiromitsu Kanehara, 2012, submissionloss v Kazuhiro Nakamura, 2012, decisionloss v Mamed Khalidov, 2013, submissionwin v Yuji Sakuragi, 2013, koloss v Yoshiyuki Nakanishi, 2014, decisionloss v Svetlozar Savov, 2015, submissionloss v Ken Hasegawa, 2015, submissionloss v Taisuke Okuno, 2016, decisionloss v Yushin Okami, 2016, kowin v Hikaru Sato, 2017, koloss v Yoichiro Sato, 2017, submissionloss v Tatsuya Mizuno, 2018, submissionwin v Daryl Lokoku, 2019, submissionwin v Akihito Mamiya, 2019, decisionloss v Hiroki Nagaoka, 2021, decisionloss v Hidetaka Arato, 2022, decisionwin v Radek Hecl, 2022, kowin v Kento Ueda, 2023, submissionloss v Ko Seok-hyun, 2023, kowin v Tadahide Aoki, 2024, decisionwin v Nathan Schouteren, no date on record
WON ABOVE·LOST BELOW BAR = STOPPAGE·BROKEN BAR = SUBMISSION·TICK = DECISION 1996–2024 · 1 UNDATED

SOURCE·Ryuta Sakurai — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-22

How this record is compiled

  1. Measurements come from the fighter's English Wikipedia infobox; the bout list is parsed from the results table on the same article, read on 2026-06-22. Boxing tables are read by header name and MMA records by the fixed column order of the MMA record template — two different parsers, because reading MMA rows as a boxing table returns a fighter's boxing record in place of their real one.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Percentiles rank this fighter among the 299 welterweight MMA fighters in the dataset — the most specific group of at least 30 that this fighter belongs to.

Sources, exclusions and known limits →

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.

Bout-by-bout recordAUG 2026
YearResultOpponentMethodRd
2024 W Tadahide Aoki Decision3
2023 W Kento Ueda Submission2
2023 L Ko Seok-hyun KO/TKO2
2022 L Hidetaka Arato Decision2
2022 W Radek Hecl KO/TKO2
2021 L Hiroki Nagaoka Decision3
2019 W Daryl Lokoku Submission2
2019 W Akihito Mamiya Decision2
2018 L Tatsuya Mizuno Submission2
2017 W Hikaru Sato KO/TKO2
2017 L Yoichiro Sato Submission2
2016 L Taisuke Okuno Decision3
2016 L Yushin Okami KO/TKO2
2015 L Svetlozar Savov Submission1
2015 L Ken Hasegawa Submission1
2014 L Yoshiyuki Nakanishi Decision3
2013 L Mamed Khalidov Submission1
2013 W Yuji Sakuragi KO/TKO1
2012 W Hiromitsu Kanehara Submission3
2012 L Kazuhiro Nakamura Decision3
2011 W Katsuyori Shibata KO/TKO2
2011 W Yoshiyuki Nakanishi Submission3
2010 L Riki Fukuda KO/TKO2
2010 D Mamed Khalidov Draw4
2009 W Hiroki Sato KO/TKO1
2009 W Hosea Ware Submission1
2009 D Hiromitsu Kanehara Draw2
2009 L Riki Fukuda KO/TKO1
2008 W Sojiro Orui Decision2
2008 W Kozo Urita Submission1
2008 W Young Choi Decision2
2008 L Riki Fukuda Decision3
2007 W Eiji Ishikawa KO/TKO1
2007 L Murilo Bustamante KO/TKO1
2007 L Ryo Chonan Decision3
2006 W Geovani Pereira Submission1
2006 W Xavier Foupa-Pokam Submission1
2006 L Ryo Chonan KO/TKO1
2005 L Paulo Filho Submission1
2005 W Yasuhito Namekawa Submission1
2005 L Murilo Bustamante Decision2
2004 W Ryuki Ueyama KO/TKO1
2004 W David Bielkheden Decision3
2004 L Yushin Okami Decision2
2004 W Tetsuya Onose KO/TKO1
2003 W Hirohide Fujinuma Submission1
2003 L Eiji Ishikawa KO/TKO2
2003 W John Renken Submission2
2003 W Yuichi Nakanishi Decision2
2002 W Jun Kitagawa KO/TKO1
2002 D Masato Nishiguchi Draw2
2002 D Marcelo Machado Draw2
2001 W Nathan Schouteren Submission1
2001 L Shiko Yamashita Decision2
1999 D Izuru Takeuchi Draw2
1999 L Jun Kitagawa Decision2
1999 L Yuki Sasaki Submission1
1999 L Cyrille Diabate KO/TKO2
1999 W Nobuhiro Tsurumaki KO/TKO1
1998 D Izuru Takeuchi Draw2

Showing 60 of 65 recorded bouts, most recent first.

32 of these opponents have their own page here.

SOURCE·Ryuta Sakurai — English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)·derived figures computed here·REVIEWED 2026-06-22

What is on record

Measurements
Reachnot recorded
Height70″ (177.8 cm)
StanceOrthodox
DivisionWelterweight MMA
competed at 2: middleweight, welterweight — compared here against the last
Most active decade2000s — 30 of 64 dated bouts
CountryJapan

Wikipedia carries no reach figure for Ryuta Sakurai 桜井隆多, so the reach-advantage comparison this site is built on cannot be computed. Everything below comes from the record instead.

2000 2010 2020 loss vs Hiroyuki Yoshioka (1996)win vs Katsuhisa Fujii (1996)loss vs Masanori Suda (1997)draw vs Izuru Takeuchi (1998)win vs Masashi Kita (1998)draw vs Izuru Takeuchi (1999)loss vs Jun Kitagawa (1999)loss vs Yuki Sasaki (1999)loss vs Cyrille Diabate (1999)win vs Nobuhiro Tsurumaki (1999)win vs Nathan Schouteren (2001)loss vs Shiko Yamashita (2001)win vs Jun Kitagawa (2002)draw vs Masato Nishiguchi (2002)draw vs Marcelo Machado (2002)win vs Hirohide Fujinuma (2003)loss vs Eiji Ishikawa (2003)win vs John Renken (2003)win vs Yuichi Nakanishi (2003)win vs Ryuki Ueyama (2004)win vs David Bielkheden (2004)loss vs Yushin Okami (2004)win vs Tetsuya Onose (2004)loss vs Paulo Filho (2005)win vs Yasuhito Namekawa (2005)loss vs Murilo Bustamante (2005)win vs Geovani Pereira (2006)win vs Xavier Foupa-Pokam (2006)loss vs Ryo Chonan (2006)win vs Eiji Ishikawa (2007)loss vs Murilo Bustamante (2007)loss vs Ryo Chonan (2007)win vs Sojiro Orui (2008)win vs Kozo Urita (2008)win vs Young Choi (2008)loss vs Riki Fukuda (2008)win vs Hiroki Sato (2009)win vs Hosea Ware (2009)draw vs Hiromitsu Kanehara (2009)loss vs Riki Fukuda (2009)loss vs Riki Fukuda (2010)draw vs Mamed Khalidov (2010)win vs Katsuyori Shibata (2011)win vs Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (2011)win vs Hiromitsu Kanehara (2012)loss vs Kazuhiro Nakamura (2012)loss vs Mamed Khalidov (2013)win vs Yuji Sakuragi (2013)loss vs Yoshiyuki Nakanishi (2014)loss vs Svetlozar Savov (2015)loss vs Ken Hasegawa (2015)loss vs Taisuke Okuno (2016)loss vs Yushin Okami (2016)win vs Hikaru Sato (2017)loss vs Yoichiro Sato (2017)loss vs Tatsuya Mizuno (2018)win vs Daryl Lokoku (2019)win vs Akihito Mamiya (2019)loss vs Hiroki Nagaoka (2021)loss vs Hidetaka Arato (2022)win vs Radek Hecl (2022)win vs Kento Ueda (2023)loss vs Ko Seok-hyun (2023)win vs Tadahide Aoki (2024)
winlossdraw / NC1996–2024

Record

MMA record

30–28

64 bouts on record

Finish rate

77%

of wins ended inside the distance — welterweight MMA median 73%, 61st percentile

KO/TKO: 11 (37%)Submission: 12 (40%)Decision: 7 (23%)
  • KO/TKO 37%
  • Submission 40%
  • Decision 23%

The career, bout by bout

65 recorded bouts from 1996 to 2024. Every incumbent shows this as a table you have to read; here it is as a shape you can see.

Career span

29y

1996–2024

Longest unbeaten run

4

without a loss — draws do not break it

Busiest year

1999

5 bouts

Recorded bouts

65

64 with a date

Standing questions

What this record does and does not say

What is Ryuta Sakurai 桜井隆多's record?
30–28 in MMA. That is the aggregate stated in the English Wikipedia infobox; the results table on the same article lists 65 bouts individually.
How many of Ryuta Sakurai 桜井隆多's bouts have no date?
1 of 65. 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.

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