Saku vs The Gracie Family
Remembering Grace
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Saku knew how to take a bump.
Did anyone fight outside of their natural weight division more then Saku?
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One of my favorite fighters ever.
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A middleweight with the nuts to fight Vovchanchyn and Mirko in their primes. Fought Conan when Conan was a top heavyweight too.
Try to find those kinda fighters around.
The combination of skill, style and nuts was just spectacular.
Legend,hope he retires from MMA,continues to grapple!
BJ Penn Forever - A middleweight with the nuts to fight Vovchanchyn and Mirko in their primes. Fought Conan when Conan was a top heavyweight too.Exactly this. Saku is one of the GOATs.
Try to find those kinda fighters around.
The combination of skill, style and nuts was just spectacular.
Fuck PEDs, Fuck TRT. All Saku needed was: Protein, Water, and Liquor.
Probably one of the biggest bad asses this sport has ever seen. 
BJ Penn Forever - A middleweight with the nuts to fight Vovchanchyn and Mirko in their primes. Fought Conan when Conan was a top heavyweight too.
Try to find those kinda fighters around.
The combination of skill, style and nuts was just spectacular.
He fought around 180lbs, which means the dude really should have been fighting at 170lbs. Saku had balls the size of grapefruits to fight Wandy 3 times, Rampage, Lil Nog, Arona, Manhoef, Vitor, and others. This is why Saku holds a special place in fight fans' hearts. He represented one of the first paradigm shifts in mma. Saku along with Frank Shamrock, were a couple of the first truly well rounded fighters. I'd love to see him at Metmoris in the future, but it probably won't happen. Because it would be way too awesome to actually happen.
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Another thing, I don't recall Saku ever making any excuses or bitching after a loss. No "I over trained" or "I suffered an injury in training." He never said, "My opponent is 2 or 3 weight classes above me." When people talk about Budo in fighting, Sakuraba is Budo personified. He will always be the MAN.
God Dammit. I miss fighters like him.
Who else can walk out dressed as Super Mario? Nobody.