1) Kazuya Hirose vs. Guy Delameau: Okay. Delameau I've seen but retained no knowledge about.
FIGHT: Hirose TKO Rnd 1. Delameau controls the fight early on, pressing with strikes and getting a takedown. He does nothing on the mat and the fight is stood up. As soon as its back on, Hirose throws a spinning back fist that drops Delameau, and the ref jumps in to stop it. Maybe a touch early but Delameau was in real trouble.
2) Yoshitomo Watanabe vs. Ryoji Suzuki: Watanabe I've seen try to block takedowns. I know nothing about Suzuki.
FIGHT: Majority Draw. Great fight, to be honest. Not much clipping. (1)
Suzuki: Comes out a house afire with strikes, dropping Watanabe and looking all the while like he's got this in the bag. He dodges an armbar attempt early in the bout and then lands some more solid strikes and knees and when it goes back to the mat...he starts to peter out. He wings mostly arm punches in the second round and gets clipped by Watanabe. On the mat, he's nothing special. That's an understatement.
Watanabe: Huge german suplex in Round 2, good takedowns otherwise, an unspectacular chin, and some submission skill from the back. That is Watanabe in this fight in a nutshell. Very vertical stance, not a great boxer/kickboxer but he does better as the fight goes on and his opponent withers under the pace. Grappling wise he's miles ahead of Suzuki and that nearly gets him the first round and definitely wins him the second.
3) Takafumi Otsuka vs. Isamu Sugiuchi: No idea who these guys are. 65KG.
FIGHT: Otsuka TKO Rnd 1. Otsuka shoots a single and takes down Sugiuchi. On the mat, Otsuka generally controls position, working shots inside the guard. He postures up, Sugiuchi closes the guard, and Otsuka picks him up by the neck and slams him down. Punches follow and its all over.
4) Sotaru Yamada vs. Yasushi Kitazaki: Yamada has shootboxing trunks. 76KG.
FIGHT: Kitazaki Split Decision. Good fight.
Yamada: Throws a flying armbar to start. That's a good sign! However he doesn't really lock it down, and spends much of the first round under Yamada, who is phyiscally stronger and gets takedowns. He does have standing back control for a time in the second round, but Kitizaki fends off choke attempts until the bell. Seems to be the better striker but never gets the range he wants.
Kitazaki: Rushes in with strikes to close the distance and get takedowns. Common wrestler-boxer MMA style. Stiff standing, but physically strong.
5) Toshiaki Kitada vs. Ippo Watanuki: Ippo looks to perhaps have some yakuza ties with the trunks and tats.
FIGHT: Draw. Not much to write about here in review. From the clipped footage shown, I would have certainly scored it for Watanuki, who stopped Kitada's shot and forced him to pull guard repeatedly. But I'm not a judge for DEEP and who knows what their system is. Kitada wasn't really any better standing, and on the mat he actually had fewer real submission attempts than Watanuki, who had a triangle attempt from bottom and rolled for lower limb locks twice (including a toehold!). I dunno. It looks like a Watanuki win to me.
6) Misaki Takamoto vs. Naoko Omuro: Female MMA. Who are they? Not the slightest clue.
FIGHT: Takamoto Unanimous Decision. Okay, so this is women's MMA at a higher level than what was typical of the NAAFS show shown a month + ago. Does that make it good? We've gone from abjectly bad women's fighting to mediocre women's fighting. Either way, I honestly don't care to watch it any more than I do mediocre or bad men's fighting solely because women are doing it. Takamoto is clearly a better all around competitor, and she displays submission skill from the guard position, slightly better standup, and can take her opponent down. Omuro looks like she is burning off all her energy bouncing up and down when standing at a distance. Her bob is just shimmying all over the place. Takamoto nearly stretches out the limb of Omuro for an armbar that she gets from side control. Let's be honest, those don't happen every day. No tap though.
FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Watanabe/Suzuki
KO OF THE NIGHT: Sugiuchi/Otsuka
OVERALL FOR THE EVENT: 3 out of 10. Short, mediocre, clipped contests with one good clipped contest. Takes 45 minutes of your life as an upside. This sort of show is completely replaceable with generic pro MMA events in the US. Its easily eclipsed by most.
D&R Rating 3% (1/30)
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