Naoya Inoue vs. Terence John Doheny & Yoshiki Takei vs. Daigo Higa - Round by Round.

Round 1 Sasaki 10-9
Round 2 Sasaki 10-9
Round 3 Sasaki 10-8
Round 4 Balla 10-9, close

Jin picks up where he left off, hard charging forward, high guard up, whipping out left hooks. Jin landing left hooks to the head and body, following with overhand rights. Balla landing some decent jabs and body shots. Jin pins him in the corner again, lands some more hooks to the body. Balla lands an uppercut. Jin with several hard jabs and hooks on a cornered Balla. Balla with a few hooks. Having little effect. Another hook late.

 

Round 1 Sasaki 10-9
Round 2 Sasaki 10-9
Round 3 Sasaki 10-8
Round 4 Balla 10-9, close
Round 5 Balla 10-9

Balla out as a southpaw, Jin landing heavy jabs. Balla sitting down on the counter rights. Jin nonplussed by most of them. Balla jabbing a lot more. One twos from Balla. Jin corners him, Balla pawing with the jab, gets warned by ref. Jin seems to have gassed out a bit. Jin then corners him, lands a flurry. Balla takes them well. Jin batters him some more. Balla spins out, measuring him, lands a few violent head snapping rights to the head of Jin.

 

Round 1 Sasaki 10-9
Round 2 Sasaki 10-9
Round 3 Sasaki 10-8
Round 4 Balla 10-9, close
Round 5 Balla 10-9
Round 6 Sasaki 10-9

Jin looks to have recovered from expending so much energy in the 3rd, coming out far more active. Backing Balla to the ropes, landing a series of jabs to the body. Following up with looping head and body shots. Vicious right hook body shot hurts Balla, he wilts, Jin follows up with a flurry. Balla recovers. Balla lands a few one twos. Jin with another left hook to the body freezes him up. Hard jabs from Jin late. Hurts hi with a left hook to the body, he was ready to go.

 

Which is exactly why I love him.

 

Round 1 Sasaki 10-9
Round 2 Sasaki 10-9
Round 3 Sasaki 10-8
Round 4 Balla 10-9, close
Round 5 Balla 10-9
Round 6 Sasaki 10-9
Round 7 Sasaki wins by TKO

Jin out fast again, going for the kill, battering him with haymakers, lands a massive left hook to teh head, Balla wilts, the ref is lunging in to stop it, Jin lands another, Balla goes down. It's over!

 

Are those ring girls sisters?

 

Jin Sasaki says in English.. "I want title shot!"

 

Balla impressed me, he took a hell of a beating and was hanging tough giving almost as good as he got through 6. He needs to come to the States, he could probably pick up a few decent wins on some ProBox cards.