- Seeing Sakuraba never get his revenge against Wanderlei Silva. Given that Saku lost their first fight for not knowing the Brazilian's skills and then the second one for-want-of-a-nail of a bad luck injury, his loyal fans expected him to correct his mistakes and get the Chute Boxer down in his third match, just like the old puroresu stars of yore who Saku was heir of used in their feuds against the brutal foreign heels. But when the match came, the world just saw Kazushi repeating the reckless first fight and falling knocked out for third and last time. After having seen him through the years facing what then were horrifyingly superior enemies, never giving up to despair and always struggling to keep the hope of his people, like a lone star fighting the darkness, at that precise moment the world only could tell that the magic was finally starting to fade off, and that they would have to witness the twilight of a fighter who had once made miracles possible.
- If his defeats before Wanderlei weren't enough to sadden the heart of a true MMA fan, the vision of Sakuraba's nightmarishly bloodied, swollen face after being beaten by Ricardo Arona evoked to many the quiet cry of a Broken Angel.
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