Riki Fukuda vs. Steve Cantwell
They have a japanese octagon girl tonight. Nice change of pace, if you ask me.
Round 1- Cantwell goes for the head kick and gets taken down. I feel like I’ve seen that before. Tonight they’re giving points for time spent on the back though, so I think Cantwell is off to a good start this round. Fukuda is dropping some heavy shots on Cantwelln from top position. Cantwell is letting Fukuda get up too high. Fukuda lands a few shots, but Cantewell is able to get up. He gets a nice Thai clinch and lands a knee as they disengage. Cantwell looks like he landed a short right there. Fukuda shoots, but it is stuffed. Fukuda shoots and Cantwell stuffs it again. Fukuda lands a right hand, leg kick combo Cantwell with the superman punch. Cantwell is swinging, but Fukuda hasn’t gotten hit flush yet. Nice defense.
Round 2- Fukuda with some nice leg kicks. Cantwell throws one of his own. Punches, missting, by both fighters. Fukuda goes for the takedown and falls into a deep motherfucking guillotine choke. Cantwell turns and getshis right leg over, but Fukuda is able to get out. Fighters clinch, Cantwell lands knees while Fukuda lands punches. Fukuda is lands his uppercut and goes for the takedown, gets a single leg, but Cantwell stuffs it. Cantwell lands a left hook, looks lie his nose is broken. Fukuda lands a left hook. Cantwell lands a fab. Fukkuda is flying forward and swinging wildly, Cantwell gets a clinch, but Fukuda is landing a ton of punches in the dirty boxing. Cantwell lands a nice elbow and a spinning elbow, which misses and is able to get off the octagon. Fukuda is lighting Cantwell up, but Cantwell is taking it and firing back with everything he has. Fukuda lands a jab, Cantwell lands an elbow. Cantwell throws a question mark kick, not landing, blocked. Fukuda lands a nice uppercut. He is fucking Cantwell up bad. Kick to the dick by Fukuda. That was actually a good break for Cantwell, who can recover while he tries to ignore the pain in the groin region. Fukuda swings, Cantwell scores the takedown. Gets Fukuda’s back, but Fukuda shakes him off as the round ends.
Round 3- Leg kicks by Fukuda. He’s in really throwing a ton of strikes, staying really active. He’s really just teeing off on Cantwell. Cantwell throws a spin kick. Cantwell does not seem to have any sense of urgency. Fukuda is popping him and goes for a takedown and puts Cantwell on his back again. Cantwell goes for an armbar and doesn’t get it and now Fukuda is on his back.
Cantwell rolls and Fukuda is in side control. Cantwell gets to his feet. better fucking end the fight here Steve. Cantwell looks gassed and is not pushing the action. Fukuda is still teeing off on him. Cantwell looks like shit. Fukuda is throwing body shots and strikes to the head. Fukuda is trying to finish the fight , has Cantwell up on the cage. Both fighters swinging wildly. Fukuda ipouring on the punishment. Cantwell looks relieved that the fight is over. Who knows, the judges came in with an insane decision last time.
Okay. The last decision was fucking insane, but I will eat my hat if these fucking judges don’t give Fukuda the win in this one.
30- 27 30-27 29-28 for Fukuda. Looks like one judge gave Cantwell the first round. That’s reasonable.