Why this card matters
The earliest Sakuraba card documented, and the only one any source calls a rookie. It was printed while he was a UWFi shoot-style wrestler working under Billy Robinson and Yoji Anjo, before the Gracie fights, before PRIDE, and roughly a year before he won the UFC Japan heavyweight tournament. It sits in a 361-card Japanese set alongside Ken Shamrock (#181) and Minoru Suzuki (#169), which is the company his early cardboard keeps.
Identification
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- Card #103 in a 361-card BBM set covering all Japanese promotions
- Set is Japanese-language; BBM is Baseball Magazine Sha, the licensed Japanese pro-wrestling card publisher
- Pro-wrestling issue, not MMA — he is pictured as a UWFi wrestler, not a PRIDE fighter
Disputed
Only Cardbase was reachable for this card. The number (#103), the set size (361) and the rookie flag all come from that one site; no second database confirmed them.
Parallels
No parallels recorded for this card.
Population & market
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Cardbase — Kazushi Sakuraba card list (33 cards, 1 rookie, 24 variations)
Cardbase — 1996 BBM Pro Wrestling set page (361 cards; names #103 Kazushi Sakuraba)
Available copies
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1996 BBM Pro Wrestling #103 — Kazushi Sakuraba.
Only Cardbase was reachable for this card. The number (#103), the set size (361) and the rookie flag all come from that one site; no second database confirmed them.