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Lionel Rose vs Takao Sakurai — record, stats and common opponents compared

🇦🇺AUSTRALIA

Lionel Rose

🇯🇵JAPAN

Takao Sakurai

Lionel Rose (42-11) and Takao Sakurai (0-2 across 2 tracked bouts) are compared on record, finishing method, activity, and common opponents on Kill The Body. The two have met once. They share 1 common opponent.

Rose

42

Wins12 KO · 29%

11

Losses

0

Draws53 tracked bouts

Sakurai

Tracked record

0–2

counted from 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested

Heads up: at least one of these records is a tracked record — the wins and losses Kill The Body has ingested so far, not an independently verified career total. Treat the comparison as a read on the bouts we hold, not a settled ledger.

Head to Head

Rose leads 1–0

Lionel Rose and Takao Sakurai have met 1 time; Rose leads 1–0.

Lionel Rose and Takao Sakurai have met 1 time; Rose leads 1–0.
Met1968Jun 2Series
Lionel RoseFighter AWWon1–0W–L
Takao SakuraiFighter BLLost0–1W–L
ResultMD1Meeting

The Numbers

Rose 4 · Sakurai 1 of 5 measurable rows
RoseSakurai
Record†
42-11 (edge)0-2
Win %0–100%
79.2% (edge)
0%
Wins by knockoutmax 12
12 (edge)
0
KO ratenot comparable
28.57%—
Stoppage rate (tracked wins)‡not comparable
29%—
Times stopped‡max 4
4
1 (edge)
Title reignsmax 3
3 (edge)
0
Bouts per year§not comparable
4.3—
Bouts trackedcoveragemax 53
53
2

† One or both records are tracked, not career-verified. · ‡ Counted from bouts Kill The Body has ingested, not a career total. · § Across each fighter's tracked career span. · Bars are scaled per row — percentages on 0–100, counts against the larger of the two. Every figure is also printed as text.

Tale of the Tape

HeightLevel
Lionel Rose: 5′5″
Takao Sakurai: 5′5″
Agenot comparable
Lionel Rose: Died aged 62
Takao Sakurai: Died aged 70
Stance
Lionel Rose: Orthodox
Takao Sakurai: Not recorded

Lionel Rose left, Takao Sakurai right, as everywhere on this page. Age is stated, not scored — neither age nor stance carries an edge.

How They Win

Tracked bouts only
Lionel Rose42 wins · from 53 tracked bouts

Lionel Rose: 42 tracked wins — 12 by KO/TKO (29%) and 30 on the cards (71%). Counted from 53 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

12 by KO/TKO 29%30 on the cards 71%

Takao Sakurai0 wins · from 2 tracked bouts

Takao Sakurai: no tracked wins in the 2 bouts Kill The Body has ingested.

No tracked wins for Sakurai yet.

One square per tracked win. Counted from the bouts Kill The Body has ingested for each fighter — Lionel Rose 53, Takao Sakurai 2 — not from a career-complete method table.

Common Opponents

1 shared

1 shared · even on 1

Rose

Opponent

Sakurai

  • Lionel Rose

    Loss, KO 5

    1969

    OlivaresEven

    Takao Sakurai

    Loss, TKO 6

    1969

Both sides are set at the same size on purpose. Kill The Body does not score a second-round knockout above a split decision — the edge counts losses first and wins as the tiebreak, and the rest is yours to argue. Shared opponents are matched on fighter identity, not on name, so two different fighters with the same name never merge into one row.

Current Form

Oldest left · newest right

Lionel Rose has lost two straight, after one straight win. Rose last boxed on Dec 18, 1976.LLWLL

Matthews Aug 1975Moeller Oct 1975Agate Nov 1975Limón Aug 1976Apeang Dec 19764.3 tracked bouts per year

Takao Sakurai has lost two straight. Sakurai last boxed on May 23, 1969.LL

Rose Jun 1968Olivares May 1969

Common Questions

With the rows behind them
Have Lionel Rose and Takao Sakurai ever fought each other?
Yes. Lionel Rose and Takao Sakurai met once on June 2, 1968, and Lionel Rose won by MD.
The meeting

WJun 2, 1968 · Rose · MD

Head to Head ↓
Who has the better record, Rose or Sakurai?
Lionel Rose is 42-11 and Takao Sakurai is 0-2 across the 2 bouts Kill The Body has tracked. Lionel Rose has the higher win percentage. Records shown as tracked have not yet been independently verified as complete career totals.
Records · win %

Rose42–1179.2%

Sakurai0–20%

The Numbers ↓
Who has more knockouts, Rose or Sakurai?
Lionel Rose has 12 knockout wins and Takao Sakurai has 0. Lionel Rose has more.
Knockout wins · KO rate

Rose1228.6%

Sakurai0

The Numbers ↓
Do Rose and Sakurai have any common opponents?
Lionel Rose and Takao Sakurai share 1 common opponent: Rubén Olivares. Neither fighter fared better across the shared opponents overall.
Shared opponent

Rubén OlivaresLL

Common Opponents ↓
Who is bigger, Rose or Sakurai?
Lionel Rose is the taller fighter at 166 cm, 2 cm above the other.
Height · reach

Rose166 cm

Sakurai164 cm

Tale of the Tape ↓
How much fight data does Kill The Body have on Rose and Sakurai?
This comparison is drawn from 53 bouts tracked for Lionel Rose and 2 bouts tracked for Takao Sakurai. Method and activity splits reflect those bouts only.
Bouts tracked · no edge

Rose53bouts

Sakurai2bouts

How They Win ↓

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