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Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Pablo Manjuelez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Katsuya Yasumi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Manjuelez comes to the ring accompanied by el Jarabe Tapatio. Yasumi has chosen Lunchmoney Lewis-Real Thing as his entrance music. Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.
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200 lbs
5 - 5 - 0 |
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188 cm
24
250 lbs
8 - 1 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Counter fighter
Very strong |
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Good wrestler
Dangerous knees
Heavy handed |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
5 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Pablo Manjuelez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
8 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Katsuya Yasumi!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Yukihiro Shimada and Yukihiro Yamamoto.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
We've got one fighter who appears to only be looking to counter and the other not looking particularly aggressive either, so we could be in for a dull fight.
Manjuelez tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Yasumi was well out of range. Poor timing from Manjuelez.
Manjuelez looks to clinch
and Yasumi counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Manjuelez shoots in for a takedown but Yasumi shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet.
Manjuelez gets a takedown into half guard.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Yasumi keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
Yasumi is looking to improve his position.
Yasumi is positioning himself well to prevent Manjuelez advancing to mount.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Manjuelez is trying to control the action in half guard but Yasumi is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Yasumi pushes Manjuelez off but Manjuelez dives into side control.
Yasumi manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!
Yasumi controlling the action here.
It looks like Yasumi might be adopting somewhat of a lay and pray gameplan here, which I'm sure won't go down too well with the paying fans in attendance... Or the ring announcers come to think of it.
Let's hope that Yasumi has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Manjuelez is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Yasumi keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.
Manjuelez is trying to control but Yasumi manages to pass to mount!
Manjuelez keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Yasumi with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
Yasumi avoids the attempt from Manjuelez to control.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Yasumi prevents Manjuelez from getting the reversal.
Yasumi trying to control but Manjuelez is having none of it.
Yasumi content just to control the position here.
Yasumi scores with a couple of good head shots there.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Manjuelez is in all sorts of trouble here.
Yasumi trying to control but Manjuelez is having none of it.
Yasumi controlling from mount.
Manjuelez is looking to get to half guard.
Yasumi trying to control but Manjuelez is having none of it.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Katsuya Yasumi dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.
Manjuelez fails in his attempt to clinch.
Yasumi drops down looking to force a counter takedown but Manjuelez defends it well.
Manjuelez lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
It looks like Katsuya Yasumi has been cut.
Manjuelez tries to clinch
and Yasumi cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Manjuelez tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Yasumi counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
That's one minute gone in the round.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Yasumi is working for a kimura but Manjuelez is defending it quite comfortably.
Manjuelez wants to control but Yasumi is keeping busy and won't allow it.
Yasumi trying to control from half guard but Manjuelez is working away.
Manjuelez wants to sweep but Yasumi has passed to side control!
Manjuelez looking for a sweep but Yasumi has passed into full mount! Oh no!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Yasumi controlling the pace for now.
Manjuelez keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
A nice elbow there by Yasumi.
Yasumi landing strikes from the mount and Manjuelez is in trouble!
Yasumi controlling from mount.
Yasumi working Manjuelez over with strikes here.
Yasumi has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Yasumi is landing with some decent strikes but Manjuelez is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Yasumi trying to control but Manjuelez is having none of it.
Yasumi controlling the pace for now.
Katsuya Yasumi has got the better of the ground game so far.
Yasumi lands a nice shot to the head.
Manjuelez is in all sorts of trouble here.
Yasumi controlling from the full mount.
Manjuelez working to try and regain half guard.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Yasumi fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Manjuelez is wriggling around trying to escape.
Yasumi looking to control and managing it successfully.
Manjuelez working to try and regain half guard.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Yasumi landing strikes from the mount.
Manjuelez is rocked!
It looks like Pablo Manjuelez has been cut.
Yasumi loads up with a big shot that hurts Manjuelez! He's pulled Yasumi in close but Yasumi has postured up and lands more strikes. Can Manjuelez survive? More strikes from Yasumi and Manjuelez is out! The ref jumps in to save him! Brutal ground and pound!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:59 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Katsuya Yasumi!
Katsuya Yasumi very nearly forgot to thank Sun-Tzu amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.
Pablo Manjuelez was interviewed post fight and said 'Puto madre es muy fuerte, Estaré de vuelta más fuerte'.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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RATING
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