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Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Kotaro Asakura (ranked 1536 p4p, 1322 weight class) and Paulo Roberto (ranked 101 p4p, 89 weight class). Asakura comes to the cage accompanied by Venom by $ B. Roberto has chosen Samba de Roda as his entrance music. Man, I cannot wait for this one!
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 11 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Kotaro Asakura!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 6 - 2, fighting out of Tokyo, Paulo Roberto!
The judges for this bout are William Peck, Yves DeLean and Elvis Blanc.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Roberto throws a body punch but Asakura moves out of range.
Asakura tests Roberto's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Paulo Roberto seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Roberto instigates a clinch.
Asakura blocks an uppercut.
Roberto misses with a body punch.
A head punch on the inside from Asakura fails to land.
Asakura escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Roberto drives through and clinches with Asakura against the cage.
Roberto misses with the head strike.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Roberto lands a left hand.
Asakura escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Roberto wants to clinch.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Roberto is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Roberto tries to close the distance and clinch but Asakura swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
It looked like Asakura wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Roberto takes the fight into the clinch.
A short body shot lands from Roberto as the two fighters clinch.
Asakura misses with an elbow over the top.
Roberto tries a body shot but Asakura blocks it.
Asakura escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Roberto is looking to clinch but Asakura is avoiding it.
Roberto doesn't manage to clinch there - Asakura circles away.
Asakura gets tackled into the cage by Roberto. Roberto maintains the clinch.
A head punch on the inside from Roberto fails to land.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Asakura blocks a body shot from Roberto.
Asakura pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Asakura keeps the fight on the outside.
Roberto uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Asakura.
Asakura ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Roberto clinches up against the cage.
Asakura blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Roberto fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Roberto lands a nice uppercut.
Roberto misses with a body punch.
Asakura blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Asakura breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Asakura avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Roberto moves in looking to clinch but Asakura pushes him off.
Asakura throws a body shot but no joy.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Roberto! But no joy.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Roberto tries to clinch there but Asakura circles away.
Roberto rushes Asakura and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Asakura breaks the clinch.
Decent striking displayed by Roberto there.
Roberto is looking to clinch but Asakura is avoiding it.
Roberto gets a clinch.
Roberto misses with a hook to the ribs.
Roberto working aggressively here.
A head punch on the inside from Roberto fails to land.
Roberto scores with a nice hook to the head.
With the fighters up against the cage, Roberto throws an elbow but misses.
Roberto throws an elbow but it misses.
Asakura avoids the elbow strike from Roberto, against the cage.
Roberto blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Asakura blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Roberto lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Roberto throws a head punch that misses.
Roberto tries to work over Asakura's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Roberto lands an elbow inside.
It looks like Kotaro Asakura has been cut.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Asakura blocks a body shot from Roberto.
Roberto goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Roberto.
Asakura blocking some punches.
Roberto struggles to land a body shot inside as Asakura controls his hands.
Asakura lands a left hand.
Roberto working aggressively here.
Asakura misses with some punches.
Asakura blocking some punches.
Roberto scores with a nice hook to the head.
Roberto lands a body shot.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.
Paulo Roberto dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Kotaro Asakura's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare each other down, ready to get back to the action.
Asakura circles away from the clinch attempt
and Asakura counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Asakura lands a jab to the nose.
Asakura keeps the fight on the outside.
Roberto is looking to clinch.
Roberto gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Paulo Roberto seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
Asakura throws a punch but it's blocked by Roberto.
Roberto throws a punch but it's blocked by Asakura.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Roberto throws a knee to the head but misses.
Roberto fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
A shot in the inside from Asakura.
Roberto has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Asakura breaks from the clinch.
Roberto darts in trying to clinch
and Asakura counters with a nice body shot.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Roberto waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Asakura.
Asakura appeared to be looking to counter that last move with a leg kick.
Asakura loads up on a big right hand but Roberto slips the punch.
Asakura drops Roberto with a naaaaasty hook - Roberto is in real trouble here! Asakura dives in to side control and pounds out his opponent for a TKO victory! The crowd goes nuts!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:26 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kotaro Asakura!
A relieved looking Kotaro Asakura thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
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hype
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FIGHT
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