Hiroki Inoue vs. Jheritz Chávez & Ryō Matsumoto vs. Jinya Ito RBR

They're jumping around showing different rounds of this one. Rather, pieces of rounds.

Now the decision for Kuwuhara, shutout.

Well, hopefully the broadcast ends up being longer than just 1hr (as I read from one source), and we do see the featherweight co-main event in entirety. My guess at this point, though, is we are going to get brief highlights of the full undercard including that one.

 

Here we go...

Ryō Matsumoto vs. Jinya Ito, 8 rounds @ featherweight

 

Ugly first round. Ito's style involves lots of jumping in and clinging to Matsumoto, literally hanging from the rangier man's body like a koala, landing rabbit punches. Matsumoto landing plenty of incidental rabbit punches of his own, as Ito keeps baring the back of the head wending in against him. On the outside Matsumoto is able to exploit his reach advantage with straight punches, but only momentarily before Ito pounces in again to muck things up.

 

They show the complete second (I believe, or maybe third) round, very similar to round 1, Matsumoto doing his best to box clean despite Ito's antics.

Then, skipping to round 4, a frustrated Matsumoto starts putting more spite on his shots, drilling heavily down into the rear of Ito's skull when the latter tries bowing in to grab his waist. Ito badly hurt, and when Matsuomoto goes in for the kill Ito clutches onto him, prompting a VIOLENT judo toss by Matsumoto which results in both men collapsing hard against the corner turnbuckle still in embrace. A few seconds later, Matsumoto unloads a barrage and the ref steps in to save Ito from any further punishment.

TKO4!!

 

Now a commercial (or maybe infomercial, not sure if Fuji boxing officially signed off, had to restart Keyhole when it crashed) for some product where ladies sit on something resembling a butt-bump (you know, for children that have outgrown an infant/toddler car seat but are still too little for just a seat belt?) that sort of gyrates around on a spring, and they sit on it and grind it concentrically with their asses. There are some dudes standing around watching girls try it out and trying as hard as they can to seem interested and fascinated, but in a professional and sexless way. This is great.

 

They keep showing a stylized X-ray view of somebody using the product, showing their internal musculoskeletal structure as well as the inner workings of the gyro-chair.

 

I'm mesmerized by this.

 

First time "Goodboy" Chávez has ever been stopped, btw. It took a perfect shot.

 

Doesn't appear to be any uploads of the sweet Inoue kayo, unfortunately. I guess you either had to be there on Monday, or tune in earlier today for the Fuji delayed broadcast. Sorry, gang.

As for the co-main, you didn't miss a damn thing. No fault of Matsumoto, but even the stoppage itself was kind of blah. I'm pretty much all set on ever watching Jinya Ito again.