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Hayato Sakurai
38-13-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Hayato Sakurai’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record38-13-2
Current streak1 loss
Last 1 (UFC)L
DivisionWelterweight
Age51
Height5' 7"
StanceOrthodox

5' 7" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. Top 13% of Welterweights: completes 69% of his takedown attempts and absorbs only 1.94 significant strikes a minute.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameMach
NationalityJapan
HometownRyugasaki, Ibaraki
Fighting out ofMach Dojo
Height5' 7"
Reachpending
StanceOrthodox
Age51
Date of birthAug 24, 1975
Weight168 lbs.
Pro record38-13-2
Finish splitpending

Career rates facts

Career averages over Hayato Sakurai’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min2.45
Striking accuracy49%
Strikes absorbed / min1.94
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.87
Takedown accuracy69%
Takedown defence56%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Welterweight.
Striking57
Defence80
Grappling / TD55
Cardio limited sample9
Chin limited sample36
Fight IQ47

Strike zones

Strike zones

Hayato Sakurai

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD80.0%FIELD 62%BODY0.0%FIELD 21%LEGS20.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 80.0% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +17.7 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
80.0%+17.7 vs field
BODY
0.0%−21.1 vs field
LEGS
20.0%+3.4 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 100%CLINCH 0%GROUND 0%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Limited sample1 UFC fights · 5 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Hayato Sakurai

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.87takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Efficient shot 1.87 takedowns per 15 minutes at 69% completion — +23pp on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS59
1.87 / 15m−0.12 vs field
ATTEMPTS32
2.71 / 15m−2.23 vs field
ACCURACY87
69%+23pp vs field
SUB ATT18
0.30 / 15m−1.02 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked in Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 38-13-2. In the UFC: 0-1. Hayato Sakurai’s last 1 UFC bout, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Full UFC career — 1 bout every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2002-03-22LMatt HughesKO/TKOR4UFC 36: Worlds Collide

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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