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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ryosuke Sato (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dwayne James (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Solid boxing
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Solid Muay Thai
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Ryosuke Sato!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Dwayne James!
The judges for this bout are Steve Montenegro, Reed Andrews and Russell Pearce.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
James displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Sato throws out the jab.
It seemed like James was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Sato looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Sato throws out a loose jab but James uses good head movement to avoid it.
James misses with a straight right.
James swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Sato jabs James to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Sato clinches up with James and pushes him back against the cage.
James misses with a punch on the inside.
James throws a head punch that misses.
James swings away with an uppercut that misses.
James blocking some punches.
A nice right hand lands inside from Sato.
Sato misses with the head strike.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
James lands a left hand.
Sato lands with a short head shot on the inside.
James misses with a hook from the clinch.
James's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Come on James - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Sato lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
That's one minute gone in the round.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, James creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
James breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Sato tries to clinch up.
Sato looks to land a combination but James avoids it well.
James tries to counter by closing the distance.
Sato lands a left and a right that send James crashing to the mat, dazed. Sato thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!
It looks like Dwayne James has been cut.
Sato tries to clinch up.
A little jabbing left from James on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Sato tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but James paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Sato clinches up against the cage.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Still in the clinch, James scores with a nice short uppercut.
James cracks Sato with a nice body shot.
Sato scores with a nice hook to the head.
James misses with a punch on the inside.
A shot in the inside from James.
James throws a punch but it's blocked by Sato.
Come on James - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
James misses with a body punch.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
James misses with some punches.
James blocking some punches.
Sato blocks a body shot from James.
A head punch on the inside from Sato fails to land.
James is stalling here.
Sato misses with a hook from the clinch.
James makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
James stalling in the clinch.
James looking to stall.
James swings wildly with an uppercut but Sato uses good head movement to avoid it.
James misses with a punch on the inside.
Sato can't find room to land a body shot as James controls the action.
James's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
James blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Sato can't find room to land a body shot as James controls the action.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Sato.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Sato.
James misses with the head strike.
Sato lands a hook to the side of the head.
Sato lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Sato working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
James looking to slow down the pace here.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for James.
A head punch blocked on the inside by James.
Nice body punch from Sato - that landed with a thud.
James working aggressively here.
James looking to slow down the pace here.
James looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Sato blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
James trying to stall but Sato improves his position.
A nice left hand lands by Sato.
James working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Sato can't find room to land a body shot as James controls the action.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for James.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Sato misses with a hook from the clinch.
James scores with an uppercut up the middle.
A nice left hand lands by Sato.
Sato lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
James content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Sato lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Sato goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Sato blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Sato as James tries to tie him up.
A short left from Sato.
Sato blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
James leaning his opponent against the cage.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as James takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Sato misses with a shot to the kidneys.
James misses with a body punch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Ryosuke Sato dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Dwayne James's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!
Sato tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and James makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
Sato swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Sato is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that James can do to turn this around?
Sato has closed the distance and engaged James in a clinch.
Sato blocks a body shot from James.
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
James swings away with an uppercut that misses.
James cracks Sato with a nice body shot.
James breaks the clinch.
Sato pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Sato ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Sato works James's body with a nice hook.
Sato fails with an attempt to clinch.
James with the counter takedown but Sato avoids it easily.
Sato scores with a jab to the head.
James avoids the body shot from Sato.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Sato dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Sato uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from James.
James scores with a jab.
James throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Sato closes the distance but James moves to the side
and James counters with a stiff right hand.
Sato tries to clinch there but James circles away.
James looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
Some wild striking there from Sato.
Sato lands with an overhand left.
Sato swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Sato misses with the combination.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
James fails to land with a series of punches.
Sato swings and misses with a shot to the body
and James counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sato misses with a body shot.
Sato swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Sato misses with a two punch combination.
James tries to counter with a clinch but Sato shakes him off and moves away.
James walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Sato plants his feet and throws a 3 punch combo. Miss, miss, boom! The third punch, a big right hook, connects right on the temple and drops James to the mat, unconscious! This fight is all over! James just couldn't keep out of the way of the whole flurry of punches!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:39 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Ryosuke Sato!
Ryosuke Sato is the new light heavyweight champion!
Ryosuke Sato spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.
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