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Coming up we have a featherweight kickboxing rules bout between Ebrahim Azhari (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Fook Yu (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Azhari comes to the ring accompanied by Jedi Mind Tricks - Blood in Blood out. Yu has chosen Drowning Pool - Bodies as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.
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152 lbs
4 - 4 - 0 |
World class boxer
Granite chin
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
11 - 9 - 1, fighting out of Tokyo, Ebrahim Azhari!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Fook Yu!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Sosuke Kotani and Shigeki Fujiwara.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Azhari with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Yu throws a shot from downtown. Azhari moves away and avoids it.
Azhari lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Yu pushes Azhari away with a front kick.
Yu takes a swing at Azhari's ribcage but misses.
Yu throws a sloppy head kick and Azhari moves out of range easily.
Azhari misses with a body shot.
Yu is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Azhari avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Yu scores with a nice right hand.
Yu doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Yu throws a big shot that misses.
Azhari throws a lazy right hand but Yu sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Yu slips a jab and a cross from Azhari.
Yu swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Yu swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Azhari slips under a jab from Yu.
Yu ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Azhari moves away.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Yu pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Azhari takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
It looks like Ebrahim Azhari has been cut.
Azhari tries to land a leg kick but Yu saw it coming and moves away.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Yu lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
Yu has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Azhari.
Azhari throws a leg kick but Yu moved away.
Yu misses the shot to the body.
Yu takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Fook Yu seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Azhari connects with a leg kick. Yu looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
A leg kick checked by Yu.
Yu throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Azhari counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Azhari connects with a body shot.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Azhari looks for the body kick but Yu saw that one coming.
Azhari throws a low kick but it's checked well by Yu.
Yu scores with a nice head shot.
Azhari tries to land a leg kick but Yu saw it coming and moves away.
A punch combination from Yu misses.
Yu loads up on a big right hand but Azhari slips the punch.
Yu takes the fight into the clinch.
Azhari swings away with an uppercut that misses.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Azhari.
Azhari trying to land knees to the body.
Yu fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Yu lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Yu trying to control the position but instead, Azhari has worked for underhooks and has pushed Yu into the ropes.
A battle for position here, against the ropes.
Yu avoids a wild elbow strike from Azhari.
Yu working aggressively here.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Azhari lands an elbow that stopped Yu in his tracks for a moment.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Yu.
Yu lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Azhari blocking some punches.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Azhari lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
It looks like Fook Yu has been cut.
Yu has been looking to improve his clinch game in recent weeks. So far he's outscoring his opponent in the clinch so it seems to have been worthwhile.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Yu.
Yu throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Yu lands a right hand.
Yu tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Fook Yu dominated that round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
That's time! Back to the action!
Azhari slips a straight right by Yu.
Yu throws a shot to the body.
Azhari throws a quick inside leg kick.
Azhari motions for Yu to come forward. Azhari throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Yu goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
Azhari slips a straight right by Yu.
Yu scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Yu takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Azhari slips under a jab from Yu.
A big left from Yu misses.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Yu looks to land a left hand but Azhari moved out of range nicely.
Nice shot by Yu.
Yu takes a swing at Azhari's ribcage but misses.
Azhari uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Yu.
Yu throws a nice looking combination but Azhari bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Azhari tests Yu's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Yu waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Azhari.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Azhari misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Yu.
Azhari misses the shot to the body.
Yu throws a lazy uppercut
and Azhari counters with a leg kick.
Azhari fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Yu has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Yu misses the shot to the body.
Azhari defending well as Yu loads up on a big left hand.
Yu throws a looping overhand right but Azhari ducks down to avoid it.
Azhari does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Azhari tries to score with a low kick but Yu moves his leg out of the way.
Azhari misses with a body kick.
Yu paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Azhari fails to land with a series of punches.
Azhari tests Yu's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Fook Yu seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Yu throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Azhari uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Yu.
Yu wants to clinch up but Azhari keeps it at a distance.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Yu swings and misses with a shot to the body
and Azhari counters with a left to the body.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Azhari on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
A jab from Azhari does it's job there.
A telegraphed right hand from Yu misses the target.
Yu scores with a head kick.
Yu tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Azhari was well out of range. Poor timing from Yu.
Yu misses with a wild combination.
Azhari connects with a solid leg kick.
Nice uppercut there from Azhari.
Yu is rocked!
Azhari ducks under a wild hook from Yu.
Yu is still on wobbly legs! Can Azhari finish him?
Yu tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Azhari connects with a crushing straight, right on the bridge of Yu's nose, sending him crumpling to the mat! That's really rocked Yu - is he going to beat the count??? 4,5,6,7,8,9.....10 - he's not made it - this one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:44 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Ebrahim Azhari!
A relieved looking Ebrahim Azhari thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
Fook Yu spoke after the fight, saying 'I congratulate my opponent for the win. The next steps are to learn from the mistakes I made in this fight and continue to train hard in the gym in order to come back stronger. Thank you.'.
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