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Combat Rewind, May 29: Legendary ladies Marloes Coenen, Megumi Fujii

BAD MMA News — Fri, 29 May 2020 11:00:39 +0000

There’s “Flashback Friday” and “Throwback Thursday” (and Tuesday, too, if you want). But at MMA Junkie, we figured why not expand that to every day? “Combat Rewind” brings you some of combat sports’ best highlights from every calendar day of the year. It’s a look back at history, courtesy of the UFC Fight Pass archives, featuring stellar finishes and classic moments in MMA and beyond on their anniversaries.

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Rizin FF 7 results: Rena advances with knockout, Kawajiri stopped with brutal knee

BAD MMA News — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 13:07:44 +0000

The shining star from the Rizin FF women’s super atomweight grand prix opening round was Rena Kubota , who picked up a first-round knockout of Andy Nguyen in the main event of today’s Rizin FF 7 event. Kubota’s (5-0) striking was on point in the tournament bout with Nguyen (5-5), which headlined the FITE TV-streamed card at Marine Messe Fukuoka in Fukuoka, Japan. She put in early body work against her opponent and capped it off with a left hook to the liver for the knockout at the 3:23 mark of Round 1. Nguyen didn’t appear to be overwhelmed by the moment against the highly touted 26-year-old Kubota

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Yoshihiro Akiyama steals show as ‘Road to UFC: Japan’ debuts on UFC Fight Pass

BAD MMA News — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:37:24 +0000

Filed under: News , UFC , Videos The UFC’s Japanese version of “The Ultimate Fighter,” featuring eight Japanese featherweights fighting for a UFC contract, debuts today on UFC Fight Pass, and “Sexyama” makes an immediate impact. While UFC heavyweight contenders Josh Barnett and Roy Nelson are the coaches of “Road to UFC: Japan,” Japanese MMA legend Yoshihiro Akiyama makes a cameo in the first episode and immediately steals the show. Sporting a Creamsicle-colored overcoat, Akiyama sits down with one of the contestants, Hiroto Uesako (10-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC), before he leaves for Las Vegas to begin the competition. Akiyama’s sage advice includes, “”Since you’re doing this, you want to make people admire you, you know?” and in what certainly deserves to become in iconic MMA quote, “Also, bring lip balm with you.” In addition to Uesako, Tatsuya Ando (3-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC), Daiki Hata (17-9-7 MMA, 0-0 UFC), Mizuto Hirota (17-7-1 MMA, 0-2 UFC), Teruto Ishihara (7-2-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), Tatsunao Nagakura (11-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC), Akiyo Nishiura (13-8-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Nobumitsu Osawa (8-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC) make up the eight-man tournament field.

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