Kazushi Sakuraba Autographs
Kazushi Sakuraba (Japanese: 桜庭 和志, Sakuraba Kazushi; born July 14, 1969) is a Japanese professional wrestler, submission wrestler and former mixed martial artist, currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah, where he was formerly one-half of the former GHC Tag Team Champions with Takashi Sugiura. He has also competed in traditional puroresu for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and shoot-style competition for UWFi and Kingdom Pro Wrestling (KPW). He has fought in MMA competition in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Pride Fighting Championships, Hero's, Dream and most recently Rizin Fighting Federation. He is known as the Gracie Hunter or the Gracie Killer due to his wins over four members of the famed Gracie family: Royler Gracie, Renzo Gracie, Ryan Gracie, and Royce Gracie. Sakuraba is famous for beating 15 champions of different top MMA organizations; opponents who were often many weight-classes above him.
Known for his excellent skills in catch wrestling and unorthodox fighting style, he is considered one of the greatest mixed martial art fighters of all time, and holds notable victories over seven UFC champions, three 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, three-time UFC Tournament champion Royce Gracie, former Superfight champion and King of Pancrase Ken Shamrock, 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 UFC champions. Sakuraba's Pride fights routinely drew over 20 million viewers in Japan. Sakuraba is the founder of the submission wrestling promotion Quintet, where he has competed since 2018.
Sakuraba became a fan of Japanese professional wrestling during childhood thanks to the Tiger Mask manga, with the eponymous New Japan Pro-Wrestling wrestler Tiger Mask being his favorite. After being convinced not to drop out of high school to pursue professional wrestling, Sakuraba began a career in amateur wrestling at age 15, hoping to gain a useful background to achieve his childhood dream. A high school stand-out, he finished as high as second in the nation before joining the freestyle wrestling squad of Chuo University, a team which had counted Olympic gold medalists Shozo Sasahara and Osamu Watanabe amongst its ranks. He won the East Japan Freshman championship in his first year and served as their team captain thereafter. In his senior year, he finished fourth in the All-Japan tournament. Amongst his notable wins was one over future Olympic bronze medalist Takuya Ota. Upon graduating from college, Sakuraba considered remaining with Chuo University as a coach. However, at the last minute, he decided to continue his road to professional wrestling.
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Traded items with a signature of Kazushi Sakuraba
The most expensive item with a signature of Kazushi Sakuraba (Kazushi Sakuraba's Saku Machine Mask signed from his time at Takada Dojo m17) was sold in March 2025 for $6,029.99 while the cheapest item (2016 Leaf Originals Wrestling Yellow Kazushi Sakuraba Signed AUTO 22/25) found a new owner for $11.50 in April 2019. The month with the most items sold (4) was November 2021 with an average selling price of $224.99 for an autographed item of Kazushi Sakuraba. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2021 with $637.49 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $49.00 was May 2020. In average, an autographed item from Kazushi Sakuraba is worth $133.50.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Kazushi Sakuraba were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Kazushi Sakuraba & Royce Gracie Signed 8x10 Photo PSA/DNA COA Pride FC UFC Auto | $150.00 |  |
| Kazushi Sakuraba Signed 12 Action Figure PSA/DNA COA Pride FC UFC UWF Autograph | $61.00 | |
| Kazushi Sakuraba Signed 8x10 Photo JSA COA Pride UFC Rampage Jackson Picture | $131.99 | |
| Kazushi Sakuraba Signed 8x10 Photo JSA COA UFC Pride FC Bellator Dream Picture | $107.99 | |
| KAZUSHI SAKURABA SIGNED AUTO'D 2006 PRIDE FC HOLO FOIL CARD #101 VS LITTLE NOG | $159.99 | |
| KAZUSHI SAKURABA SIGNED AUTO'D 2006 PRIDE FC HOLO FOIL CARD #123 UFC VS MINOWA A | $159.99 | |
| KAZUSHI SAKURABA SIGNED AUTO'D GLOVE PSA/DNA COA UFC JAPAN MMA PRIDE FC L | $249.99 | |
| Kazushi Sakuraba Signed Baseball PSA/DNA UFC Pride FC New Japan Pro Wrestling 24 | $307.99 | |
 | Kazushi Sakuraba Signed Official UFC Fight Glove PSA/DNA COA NJPW Pride FC Auto | $308.99 | |
| KAZUSHI SAKURABA Signed UFC 8x10 Photo MMA Personality Autograph JSA COA | $135.00 | |
| KAZUSHI SAKURABA Signed UFC 8x10 Photo MMA Personality Autograph JSA COA | $135.00 | |
| MMA Signed Kazushi Sakuraba Photo 16x20 with Certificate of Authenticity PSA DNA | $69.99 | |
| Pride Fc Premium Signed Framed Event Used Ring Mat Kazushi Sakuraba /100 UFC SEG | $1,000.00 | |
| Pride FC Premium Signed Framed Event Used Ring Mat Kazushi Sakuraba UFC SEG MMA | $999.99 | |
| UFC Signed Kazushi Sakuraba Shorts with Certificate of Authenticity PSA DNA | $165.00 | |
