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Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Akira Harada (ranked 925 p4p, 130 weight class) and Kamakiri Yoritomo (ranked 2080 p4p, 266 weight class). Yoritomo comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Praying Mantis - Praying Mantis kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Kamakiri Yoritomo has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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Good wrestling
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Excellent MT
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
13 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Akira Harada!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
10 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Kamakiri Yoritomo!
The judges for this bout are Ben Watson, Hugh Johnson and Skip Squint.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Yoritomo walks into a jab.
Yoritomo walks into a straight right hand from Harada.
Akira Harada seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Yoritomo scores with a nice right hand.
Harada throws the kick towards the body but Yoritomo avoids it.
Yoritomo ducks under a wild hook from Harada.
Harada misses the shot to the body.
Yoritomo wants to clinch up but Harada keeps it at a distance.
Yoritomo on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Harada misses with a jab, cross combination.
Yoritomo misses with a wild body shot.
Yoritomo staying out of range there.
Harada with a hook.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Yoritomo tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Harada was well out of range. Poor timing from Yoritomo.
We've been told by Harada's head coaches at 3Band MMA ($800/week) that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.
Harada uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Yoritomo.
Yoritomo slips a jab from Harada.
The fight moves into the clinch position.
Harada blocking some punches.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Harada is trying to break the clinch but Yoritomo has him pressed against the cage.
Harada misses with a knee strike.
Harada wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Harada swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Harada wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Harada.
Yoritomo lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Harada backwards.
Harada wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Yoritomo has him pressed against the cage.
Yoritomo breaks from the clinch.
Harada takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Harada cracks Yoritomo with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Harada lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Harada has managed to clinch.
Harada working hard to break the clinch.
Harada dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Harada throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Yoritomo blocks it with crossed arms.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Harada stalling in the clinch.
Harada gets through Yoritomo's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Yoritomo is leaning against Harada and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Harada blocks an uppercut.
Harada lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Yoritomo makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Harada lands a right hand.
Yoritomo lands a hook to the side of the head.
Yoritomo tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Harada's elbow.
Yoritomo misses with a punch on the inside.
Harada's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
A jab lands there for Harada.
Harada throws a lazy head kick
and Yoritomo counters with a straight right hand.
Yoritomo tries to close the distance and clinch up but Harada swats him away and circles back towards the center.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Harada throws an overhand right that lands on Yoritomo's shoulder, as Yoritomo tries to avoid the shot.
Yoritomo wants to counter the offense by Harada and move into the clinch position.
Yoritomo missing with a left hand there. Harada was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Harada swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Harada takes the fight into the clinch.
Yoritomo misses with a hook from the clinch.
Yoritomo tries to throw a body punch but Harada avoids it by throwing Yoritomo back against the cage.
Yoritomo stalling the fight.
Yoritomo makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Harada tries to break free but Yoritomo pushes him back against the cage.
Yoritomo misses with some punches.
Yoritomo scores with a nice hook to the head.
Harada is trying to break free.
Harada scores with a shoulder strike.
Yoritomo fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Yoritomo misses with a punch on the inside.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
A short left from Harada.
Harada lands a shot to the body.
Yoritomo keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Harada's efforts to push away.
Yoritomo fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Harada working hard to break the clinch.
Yoritomo escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Harada moves into the clinch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Harada fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Yoritomo lands a nice uppercut.
Harada lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Yoritomo blocking some punches.
Harada wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Yoritomo has him pressed against the cage.
Yoritomo goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Yoritomo.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Akira Harada dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.
Harada has managed to clinch.
Yoritomo taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Yoritomo misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Harada blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Harada trying to stall but Yoritomo improves his position.
Harada wants to stall.
Yoritomo blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
A nice right hand lands inside from Yoritomo.
Yoritomo manages to break the clinch.
Yoritomo ducks under a wild hook from Harada.
Yoritomo feints a counter leg kick.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
The fight moves into the clinch position.
Yoritomo breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Yoritomo takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Yoritomo slips a straight right by Harada.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Yoritomo throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Harada on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Yoritomo tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Harada manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Harada throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Harada tries to clinch up but Yoritomo circles away and keeps his distance.
Yoritomo wants to counter the offense by Harada and move into the clinch position.
Harada misses with a series of wild punches.
Yoritomo tries to clinch up.
Harada is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Yoritomo can do to turn this around?
Yoritomo rushes Harada and presses him up against the cage.
Yoritomo working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Harada misses with a punch on the inside.
Harada is trying to break the clinch but Yoritomo is controlling him.
Harada breaks the clinch.
Harada swings away with a body shot that misses
and Yoritomo counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Harada is rocked!
Harada walks into a straight right, dropping him to the canvas! Yoritomo swarms him and finishes the fight with a hail of punches! What a brutal finish!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:58 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Kamakiri Yoritomo!
After winning the bout, Kamakiri Yoritomo thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.
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hype
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RATING
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