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Augusto Sakai

UFC 5-4Pro 16-5-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Augusto Sakai’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Technical striker

UFC recordUFC 5-4 first fight 2018-09-22 · last fight 2023-02-25
Pro record16-5-1
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L L L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age35
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox technical striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision. Top 15% of Heavyweights: lands 4.6 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

Nicknamepending
NationalityBrazil
Hometown (per Sherdog)Curitiba, Parana
Camppending
Height6' 3"
Reach77"
StanceOrthodox
Age35
Date of birthMay 09, 1991
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record16-5-1
UFC recordUFC 5-4 first fight 2018-09-22 · last fight 2023-02-25
Finish split5 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Augusto Sakai has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Augusto Sakai in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Heavyweight153 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 30 April 2019No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#11–15 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#11–15 · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#11–15 · from the table of 11 May 2020#6–10 · from the table of 2 June 2020No table on record · Dec 2020 – Jan 2021#6–10 · from the table of 18 January 2021#11–15 · from the table of 15 November 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#11–15 · from the table of 17 January 2022First rankedPeak #8Last ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#8Heavyweight · Aug 2020
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Aug 2022

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Augusto Sakai’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 / min4.60
Striking accuracy49%
Strikes absorbed / min3.83
Striking defence48%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.23
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence56%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight 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 Heavyweight.
Striking72
Defence47
Grappling / TD23
Cardio89
Chin33
Fight IQ53

Our calls on Augusto Sakai’s fights

We have not called one of Augusto Sakai’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 1 of Augusto Sakai’s fights, 0 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Augusto Sakai

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

HEAD59.3%ACC 40%BODY28.1%ACC 72%LEGS12.6%ACC 76%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 59% head / 28% body / 13% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
59.3% acc 40%−7.7 vs field
BODY
28.1% acc 72%+9.6 vs field
LEGS
12.6% acc 76%−1.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 60%CLINCH 35%GROUND 5%

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.

9 UFC fights · 430 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Augusto Sakai

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

0.23takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.23 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.16 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS4
0.23 / 15m−2.16 vs field
ATTEMPTS4
0.57 / 15m−4.48 vs field
ACCURACY42
40%−11pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.71 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 16-5-1. In the UFC: 5-4. Augusto Sakai’s last 8 UFC bouts, 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 — 9 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2023-02-25WDon'Tale MayesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Muniz vs. Allen
2022-08-06LSerghei SpivacKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Hill
2021-12-11LTai TuivasaKO/TKOR2UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier
2021-06-05LJairzinho RozenstruikKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai
2020-09-05LAlistair OvereemKO/TKOR5UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai
2020-05-30WBlagoy IvanovDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns
2019-09-14WMarcin TyburaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Gaethje
2019-04-27WAndrei ArlovskiDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson
2018-09-22WChase ShermanKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Marreta vs. Anders

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.

On the map

The 4 cities Augusto Sakai has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 6 bouts, 2020–2023Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil — 1 bout, 2018Sunrise, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2019Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — 1 bout, 2019Hometown: Curitiba, Parana

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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