RBR 2019 All Japan Rookie of the Year

3-Usui starts round 3 well and seemed rock Nakamura mid way into the round, Nakamura wary and gets back outside trying to draw Usui into an error to counter, they trade huge rights and both men take them well. Usui's round

 

4-Huge right from Nakamura and Usui walks through it, Usui takes another right whilst coming forward and eats it like a champ, a third one seemed to slow him for a moment but he's back on the front foot, a Usui right hand late but he's then wobbled himself, big body shot from Nakamura, a hard right from Usui

Expecting fire works in the final round...

 

5-Both letting bombs go early here, neither quite has the delivery method sorted yet but they are throwing them, big body shot form Usui, a body shot from Nakamura, double left hook from Usui, both take a left hook up top, Usui on the charge and he seemed to wobble Nakamura, body shots form Usuim Nakamura standing and battling hard...

Hard one to call (especially with Isakura acting up so much

 

50-44, 49-45, 49-46 to Nakamura
Having a stream that kept stopping really made that one tricky to score

 

Super Flyweight Seiya Meguro (5-0, 3) v Keisuke Iwasaki (4-1, 1)

Meguro is from the Celes gym and is a stablemate of Ryosuke Iwasa, Jin Minamide and Issei Ochiai who were all in the entrance way for Meguro's walk in

 

1-Meguro looks to be a very rangy southpaw, dwarfs his man and looks very dangerous, a good left from him, Iwasaki looking to line up counter right hands, Meguro looks heavy handed but has a bit of Shinsuke Yamanaka about him...there's else other than his left hand...

 

2-Not much of anything here, until Meguro lands a monster left, no idea how how Iwasaki ate it and stayed standing...that was as flush as they come

 

3-We have a fire fight! They trade in the opening minute, a very exciting change of tempo, Meguro fighting well off the ropes, nice to see Iwasaki taking more risks but not sure he did enough

 

4-Iwasaki getting inside but Meguro holds his own, Meguro just looking like he has answered to everything Iwasaki is trying

 

Meguro takes the decision, they looked relieved by it, seemed a pretty clear one to me but Isakura was again playing up...official scores 48-47, 47-48, 48-47 split decision Meguro

 

Next up Shota Ogasawara (5-2, 3) v Kantaro Nakanishi (2-0-1)

 

Fun fight this one, Ogasawara appears the strong man but Nakanishi having moments

(Can't due an accurate RBR with the quality of this feed)

 

Nakanishi took the UD

Super Bantamweight final Takeshi Takehara (5-0, 1)v Ryuya Tsugawa (6-1, 3)

Takehara was one of two fighters who almost missed out due to the political mess of the Kyoei gym, but signed an 1 fight agreement to fight out of the Hanagata gym

 

Tsugawa gets the decision

 

Next up Kyonosuke Kameda (5-1-1, 4) v Jinki Maeda (3-0, 2)