TOP 10 KAZUSHI SAKURABA FINISHES 桜庭 和志

Kazushi Sakuraba (桜庭 和志 Sakuraba Kazushi, born July 14, 1969) is a Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler, currently signed to Rizin Fighting Federation.[2][3][4] He has competed in traditional puroresu for New Japan Pro Wrestling and shoot-style competition for UWFi and Kingdom Pro Wrestling. He has fought in MMA competition in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Pride Fighting Championships, Hero's and Dream. He is known as the "Gracie Hunter"[5][6][7][8] or the "Gracie Killer"[9][10][11][12] due to his wins over four members of the famed Gracie family: Royler Gracie, Renzo Gracie, Ryan Gracie, and Royce Gracie. In particular, Sakuraba is famous for his initial fight with Royce, which lasted ninety minutes and ended after Royce was unable to continue due to damage received from Sakuraba.Known for his excellent skills in catch wrestling, he is considered to be one of the greatest mixed martial art fighters of all time, and also holds notable victories over 7 UFC champions, 3 Pancrase Champions, a DREAM champion, a King of the Cage champion and Battlecade Extreme Fighting champion; former Welterweight Champion Carlos Newton, two former Light heavyweight champions Vitor Belfort and Quinton Jackson, former Heavyweight Champion Kevin Randleman, 3-time UFC Tournament champion Royce Gracie, former Superfight champion and King of Pancrase Ken Shamrock, former UFC Tournament champion and King of Pancrase Guy Mezger, former King of Pancrase Masakatsu Funaki, DREAM Super Hulk Tournament Champion Ikuhisa Minowa, former King of the Cage Light Heavyweight champion Vernon White, and former Battlecade Extreme Fighting champion Marcus Silveira. He is also the first of only two Japanese champions in UFC history.
Sakuraba became known for a unique, unorthodox fighting style which can be most described as creative.[80] He used in the ring moves and techniques from professional wrestling, among them spinning sole kicks, jumping stomps, Mongolian chops[5] and baseball slides.[80] He also used cartwheels to pass guard and several kinds of confusing, often comical tricks to gain advantage over his opponent.[5] However, his main strength was his rounded set of abilities come from shoot-style wrestling, which included a grinding striking learned from muay thai[43] and a brilliant catch wrestling submission expertise. He submitted important grapplers of his time like Royler Gracie, Renzo Gracie and Masakatsu Funaki by using his signature double top wrist lock, a technique he opened both from standing and on the ground.[5][80] Though he didn't fear giving his back to his opponent in order to secure it, Sakuraba would also use the technique as a positional weapon, threatening with them to control his adversary.[80] Renzo Gracie praised his ability to play against his opponent's weaknesses,[81] and Mark Kerr called him the world's best technician at his time.UFC and PRIDE FC legend Kazushi Sakuraba will take his place in the UFC Hall of Fame. Relive the Japanese Pioneer's greatest Fights now on UFC FIGHT PASS!

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