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— El amigo de lo ajeno (@AjenoAmigo)
August 9, 2020
Roberto de
Souza bounced back from his first professional defeat in
style.
The 30-year-old known as “Satoshi” authored a quick finish of
Yusuke
Yachi in the Rizin Fighting Federation 22 headliner, earning a
technical knockout victory 1:52 into the opening stanza of their
bout at Pia Arena MMA in Yokohama, Japan, on Sunday. It was the
Japanese promotion’s first card since the COVID-19 pandemic forced
a postponement of its event schedule.
De Souza (10-1) wasted little time landing a takedown and moving to
full mount, where he maintained the dominant position and unloaded
with a barrage of ground-and-pound until referee Ryogaku Wada
stepped in to wave off the bout. “Satoshi,” who has finished all 10
of his professional victories inside the distance, was coming off a
75-second TKO loss to UFC veteran Johnny Case
in the first round of the lightweight grand prix last October.
Yachi (21-10) has lost four of his last five professional
outings.
— inxxane (@inxxane)
August 9, 2020
In the co-main event, former Rizin and Invicta atomweight champion
Ayaka
Hamasaki (20-3) submitted Tomo
Maesawa (13-11) with a kimura in a 115-pound clash. The end
came at the 1:26 mark of Round 2, as the Tokyo native won for the
sixth time in seven appearances under the Rizin banner.
Hamasaki dropped her opponent early in the first round and also
threatened with an armbar near the end of the period. She took
Maesawa to the canvas again in the second stanza and transitioned
from an armbar to the fight-ending maneuver.
Elsewhere, atomweight contender Kanna
Asakura (17-4) rolled past 19-year-old foe Mizuki
Furuse (9-8), scoring a technical knockout 1:35 into the
opening round of their featured bout. Asakura took Furuse down,
transitioned to her foe’s back and rained down punches to force the
stoppage. The former title challenger has won three straight since
falling to Miyuu
Yamamoto in June 2019.
In other action: UFC vet Naoki Inoue
(14-2) submitted Shuto
Watanabe (19-5-6) with a rear-naked choke 1:40 into the opening
stanza at bantamweight; Tetsuya
Seki (11-6-1) knocked out Kouya Kanda
(4-3) 3:47 into the second frame of their featherweight clash;
Kyohei
Hagiwara (1-2) earned a TKO of Rikuto
Shirakawa (7-7-1) 4:40 into Round 3 at featherweight and
Kenji
Kato (14-7) knocked out Erson
Yamamoto (3-5) at the 3:32 mark of the first round in a
bantamweight tilt.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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