Rukawa's style in bed was a lot like his style on the court: highly aggressive and fierce. But Sakuragi would obviously never agree with that assessment.
In Sakuragi's mind, he and Rukawa were evenly matched, neck and neck. The ambition he had set back in junior high hadn't changed a bit to this day: he was going to beat Rukawa.
With a guiding philosophy like that, if Sakuragi admitted that Rukawa was fierce, wouldn't that be a roundabout way of admitting he was a fraction inferior?
Chapter 119