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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Hitoshi Yoshida (ranked 354 p4p, 42 weight class) and Dwayne King (ranked 664 p4p, 74 weight class). Yoshida comes to the ring accompanied by Yoshida Brothers - Rising. Dwayne King has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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155 lbs
6 - 0 - 1 |
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174 cm
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150 lbs
8 - 2 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
6 - 0 - 1, fighting out of London, Hitoshi Yoshida!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Dwayne King!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Yuuki Gou.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
King misses the body punch
and Yoshida counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
A short right from King on the inside.
Yoshida blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Yoshida lands on the inside with an uppercut.
King lands a right hand.
Yoshida swings wildly with an uppercut but King uses good head movement to avoid it.
A nice right hand lands inside from King.
Yoshida goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Yoshida stalling in the clinch.
Yoshida lands a left hand that snaps the head of King backwards.
Yoshida softening up his opponent with strikes, against the ropes.
King scores with a hook to the body.
King swings away with an uppercut that misses.
King lands with a short punch from the clinch.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
King misses with a hook from the clinch.
King being controlled against the ropes.
Yoshida lands on the inside with an uppercut.
King prevents a body shot from Yoshida.
Yoshida lands a body punch in the clinch.
Yoshida misses with a shot to the kidneys.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Yoshida.
That's one minute gone in the round.
King lands an uppercut.
King misses with a body punch.
Yoshida blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Yoshida lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of King backwards.
Yoshida lands a right hand that snaps the head of King backwards.
A right hand to the body from Yoshida.
Yoshida keeps the fight in the clinch, despite King's efforts to push away.
A nice left hand lands by King.
King tries to circle away but Yoshida has him pinned against the ropes.
With the fighters clinched against the ropes, Yoshida creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Yoshida works on King's body with a couple of short punches.
King lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Yoshida has King pressed against the ropes, preventing King from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
King swings wildly with an uppercut but Yoshida uses good head movement to avoid it.
Yoshida blocking some punches.
Yoshida turns his hips and lands a very nice judo throw into side control!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Yoshida working away.
Yoshida trying to control the position but King is working away.
Yoshida has knee on belly and now moves to full mount! Trouble for King!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Yoshida controlling the pace for now.
Yoshida manages to capitalize on a mistake by King to take his back!
Yoshida working for the choke.
Yoshida seems to have improved his submission grappling technique since last time we saw him. Let's see if he can pull off a submission.
King is looking to escape here. Oh dear - Yoshida has locked on a rear naked choke here! King is tapping out! The fight is over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Hitoshi Yoshida!
Hitoshi Yoshida retains his featherweight title!
During a confident post fight interview, Hitoshi Yoshida thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
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energy
A | B |
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hype
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
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