Kazushi Sakuraba

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Kazushi Sakuraba

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card/ date	match			match type	Rating
NJPW/NOAH Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Day 3: New Japan vs. NOAH Jan 8th 2022	Kazushi Sakuraba & Takashi Sugiura & Toru Yano	def. (pin)	Minoru Suzuki & Taichi & TAKA Michinoku	6-person tag	***½ (3.5)
NOAH The New Year 2022 Jan 1st 2022	Kazushi Sakuraba & KENTA & Takashi Sugiura	def. (pin)	Daiki Inaba & Masa Kitamiya & Yoshiki Inamura	6-person tag	***½ (3.5)
NOAH Destination 2021 ~ Back To Budokan ~ Feb 12th 2021	Kazunari Murakami & Kazushi Sakuraba & Kazuyuki Fujita & Kendo Kashin & NOSAWA Rongai & Takashi Sugiura	def. (pin)	Haoh & Katsuhiko Nakajima & Manabu Soya & Masa Kitamiya & Nioh & Tadasuke	12-person tag	***¼ (3.25)
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2016 May 3rd 2016	Gedo & Kazushi Sakuraba & Will Ospreay & YOSHI-HASHI	def. (pin)	David Finlay & Jay White & Ryusuke Taguchi & Tiger Mask IV	8-person tag	**¾ (2.75)
NJPW Invasion Attack 2016 Apr 10th 2016	Jushin Thunder Liger & Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata	def. (pin)	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI	6-person tag	**½ (2.5)
NJPW New Japan Cup 2016 - Day 6 Mar 12th 2016	Kazuchika Okada & Kazushi Sakuraba	def. (pin)	Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata		*½ (1.5)
NJPW The New Beginning in Niigata Feb 14th 2016	Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly	def.	Gedo & Kazushi Sakuraba		**¼ (2.25)
NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka Feb 11th 2016	Jushin Thunder Liger & Ryusuke Taguchi & Tiger Mask IV	def.	Gedo & Kazushi Sakuraba & YOSHI-HASHI	6-person tag	*¾ (1.75)
NJPW Road to the New Beginning 2016 - Day 2 Jan 30th 2016	Bad Luck Fale & Yujiro Takahashi	def.	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano		½* (0.5)
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10 Jan 4th 2016	Jado	def.	Captain New Japan, Cheeseburger, Hiro Saito, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Jushin Thunder Liger, Kazushi Sakuraba, King Haku, Manabu Nakanishi, Mascara Dorada, Ryusuke Taguchi, Satoshi Kojima, Shiro Koshinaka, The Great Kabuki, Tiger Mask IV, YOSHI-HASHI, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, Yuji Nagata	dark Battle Royal	* (1.00)
NJPW World Tag League 2015 - Day 14 Dec 9th 2015	Hirooki Goto & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata & Michael Elgin	def.	Kazuchika Okada & Kazushi Sakuraba & Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI	8-person tag	**** (4.00)
NJPW World Tag League 2015 - Day 13 Dec 6th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano	def.	Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga		DUD (0)
NJPW World Tag League 2015 - Day 9 Dec 1st 2015	Kazuchika Okada & YOSHI-HASHI	def.	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano		***½ (3.5)
NJPW Power Struggle 2015 Nov 7th 2015	Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata	def. (pin)	Kazuchika Okada & Kazushi Sakuraba		****½ (4.5)
NJPW Road to Power Struggle 2015 - Day 8 Nov 1st 2015	Bad Luck Fale & Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga	def.	Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI	8-person tag	**¾ (2.75)
NJPW Road to Power Struggle 2015 - Day 2 Oct 24th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI	def. (pin)	Bad Luck Fale & Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga	8-person tag	** (2.00)
NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2015 Oct 12th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura & Toru Yano	def. (pin)	Bad Luck Fale & Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson	6-person tag	*½ (1.5)
NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2015 Sep 27th 2015	Kazuchika Okada & Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano	def. (sub)	A.J. Styles & Cody Hall & Tama Tonga	6-person tag	***¼ (3.25)
NJPW G1 Climax 25 - Day 19 Aug 16th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano	def.	Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi	6-person tag	** (2.00)
NJPW G1 Climax 25 - Day 18 Aug 15th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Matt Taven & Michael Bennett & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI	def.	A.J. Styles & Bad Luck Fale & Cody Hall & Doc Gallows & Tama Tonga	10-person tag	*** (3.00)
NJPW G1 Climax 25 - Day 17 Aug 14th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI	def.	Gedo & Kazuchika Okada & Matt Taven & Michael Bennett	8-person tag	***½ (3.5)
NJPW Dominion 7.5 Jul 5th 2015	Katsuyori Shibata	def. (pin)	Kazushi Sakuraba		**** (4.00)
NJPW Best of the Super Juniors XXII - Day 13 Jun 7th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI	def. (pin)	Captain New Japan & Hirooki Goto & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata & Togi Makabe	10-person tag	**** (4.00)
NJPW Best of the Super Juniors XXII - Day 12 Jun 5th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI	def. (pin)	Hirooki Goto & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata & Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma	10-person tag	**** (4.00)
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku '15 May 3rd 2015	Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata & Togi Makabe	def.	Kazushi Sakuraba & Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano	6-person tag	***¼ (3.25)
NJPW Invasion Attack '15 Apr 5th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano	def. (sub)	Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata		*** (3.00)
NJPW New Japan Cup '15 - Day 7 Mar 15th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano	def. (pin)	Captain New Japan & Hiroshi Tanahashi		**¾ (2.75)
NJPW New Japan Cup '15 - Day 3 Mar 8th 2015	Kazuchika Okada & Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii	def. (pin)	Cody Hall & Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson & Tama Tonga	8-person tag	***½ (3.5)
NJPW New Japan Cup '15 - Day 1 Mar 5th 2015	Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura & Tomohiro Ishii	def. (pin)	Captain New Japan & Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Manabu Nakanishi	6-person tag	**¼ (2.25)
NJPW The New Beginning In Sendai '15 Feb 14th 2015	Kota Ibushi & Tetsuya Naito	def. (pin)	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano		*** (3.00)
NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka '15 Feb 11th 2015	Kazuchika Okada & Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano	def. (pin)	Bad Luck Fale & Tama Tonga & Yujiro Takahashi	6-person tag	**¾ (2.75)
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 9 Jan 4th 2015	Minoru Suzuki	def. (sub)	Kazushi Sakuraba		***¾ (3.75)
NJPW World Tag League '14 - Day 11 Dec 7th 2014	Gedo & Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano	def. (pin)	Minoru Suzuki & TAKA Michinoku & Takashi Iizuka	6-person tag	*¼ (1.25)
NJPW Power Struggle 2014 Nov 8th 2014	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano	def. (pin)	Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka		*½ (1.5)
NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2014 Oct 13th 2014	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano	def. (pin)	Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka		**¼ (2.25)
NJPW Destruction In Kobe '14 Sep 21st 2014	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano	def. (pin)	Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka		*** (3.00)
NJPW G1 Climax 24 - Day 12 Finals Aug 10th 2014	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI	def. (DQ)	Minoru Suzuki & Shelton Benjamin & Takashi Iizuka	6-person tag	*¼ (1.25)
NJPW Dominion 6.21 Jun 21st 2014	Minoru Suzuki & Takashi Iizuka	def. (pin)	Kazushi Sakuraba & Toru Yano		*¼ (1.25)
NJPW Return to Yokohama Arena May 25th 2014	Kazushi Sakuraba	def.	Rolles Gracie		** (2.00)
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku '14 May 3rd 2014	Daniel Gracie & Rolles Gracie	def. (pin)	Kazushi Sakuraba & Shinsuke Nakamura		*¼ (1.25)
NJPW Invasion Attack 2014 Apr 6th 2014	Kazushi Sakuraba & Togi Makabe & Yuji Nagata	def.	Minoru Suzuki & Taichi & TAKA Michinoku	6-person tag	**½ (2.5)
NJPW New Japan Cup 2014 - Day 7 Mar 23rd 2014	Kazushi Sakuraba & Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata	def.	Jado & Takashi Iizuka & Toru Yano	6-person tag	¾* (0.75)
NJPW Strong Style 42nd Anniversary Show Mar 6th 2014	Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Kazushi Sakuraba & Satoshi Kojima & Yuji Nagata	def.	Takashi Iizuka & Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI & Yujiro Takahashi	8-person tag	**¼ (2.25)
NJPW New Beginning in Osaka '14 Feb 11th 2014	Daniel Gracie & Rolles Gracie	def. (sub)	Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata		*½ (1.5)
NJPW New Beginning in Hiroshima '14 Feb 9th 2014	Takashi Iizuka & Toru Yano	def. (DQ)	Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata		**½ (2.5)
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 8 Jan 4th 2014	Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata	def. (DQ)	Daniel Gracie & Rolles Gracie		-* (-1)
NJPW World Tag League '13 - Day 13: Finals Dec 8th 2013	Kazushi Sakuraba & Yuji Nagata	def.	Takashi Iizuka & YOSHI-HASHI		* (1.00)
NJPW King of Pro Wrestling '13 Oct 14th 2013	Yuji Nagata	def. (pin)	Kazushi Sakuraba		*** (3.00)
NJPW Destruction '13 Sep 29th 2013	Katsuyori Shibata & Kazushi Sakuraba	def. (sub)	Manabu Nakanishi & Yuji Nagata		***¼ (3.25)
NJPW G1 Climax 23 - Day 9: Finals Aug 11th 2013	Akebono & Kazushi Sakuraba & Kota Ibushi	def. (sub)	Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI	6-person tag	***½ (3.5)

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