The Main Event That Wasn’t: Disaster Hits SHOOTO
Rumina Falters
Jason Nowe Feb 18, 2006
In a very exciting bout, SHOOTO poster boy Rumina Sato (Pictures) took on Canadian SHOOTO newcomer
Antonio Carvalho
(Pictures). This was an important
match-up for both fighters as the winner would be in line to
challenge the winner of the “Pequeno”-Melendez bout for the
lightweight title.
Sato nearly had the victory within his reach in the opening moments of the first when he landed a grazing right hand that caught Carvalho on the top of the head, stunning the Canadian fighter. From here he went for a flying armbar and got it on, yet Carvalho was able to hang on and eventually escape.
Sato pounded away from the guard but after a scramble it was
Carvalho who got the SHOOTO legend to his back, passing his guard
to side and then taking the mount.
Things went downhill fast for Sato once Carvalho got the mount and started raining down punches. The Japanese fighter covered up but didn’t do anything to get Carvalho off of him. The bell sounded to end the first round with Carvalho still raining down punches and a visibly shaken Sato walked to his corner.
This was a huge win for Carvalho and he displayed his emotions in the ring. I’m not sure what lies ahead for Sato, but hopefully he’ll come back from this loss and display his talents in a SHOOTO ring again soon.
The bout between SHOOTO veterans Takeshi Inoue (Pictures) and Makoto Ishikawa (Pictures) really illustrated the different styles that these two fighters have. “Lion” Takeshi looked more like the classically trained boxer, whereas Ishikawa looked more like old-school MMA brawler.
Inoue moved extremely well throughout this bout, dancing around the ring and using his feet to avoid the hard haymakers that Ishikawa threw at him. His jab was lightning fast and he used it well to keep the distance and set up his combinations.
Pretty much all of the action in this one was on the feet and Ishikawa just got out-boxed, plain and simple. While he did land some hard shots on his opponent, the barrage of jabs and combinations was just too much for him. The fight went the distance and Takeshi took the unanimous victory.
Abe Ani Combat Club fighter Hiroyuki Abe (Pictures) took a page out of Masakuzu Imanari’s playbook in his fight against Tenkei Fujimiya (Pictures), attempting the patented “Imanari corkscrew baseball slide diving shoot” in both the second and third rounds.
Fujimiya was all over Abe in this one with strikes. His punches were snappy and he put together big combinations, almost ending the fight with a huge barrage of punches in the corner in the first round. Abe seemed a bit lackadaisical, he covered well but he didn’t initiate anything and threw almost no counter punches.
The fight went the distance and Fujimiya took the unanimous decision. Nova Uniao fighter Danilo Cherman did not look good on his feet in his fight against Mizuto Hirota (Pictures). Right from the start of the match his punches were wild and sloppy. At one point near the end of the first it looked like Hirota had knocked him out with punches when he dived into his guard, but the sharp eye of the referee saw that there was a headbutt when the Japanese fighter came flying in.
The troubles continued for Cherman on the ground, with Hirota firing shots from guard and half. To his credit, Cherman did have a few slick reversals during the match, but he ended up eating a lot of punches. The fight went the distance and Hirota walked away with the unanimous victory.
SHOOTO veteran Kenji Osawa (Pictures) displayed some solid boxing skills in his fight against Naoya Uematsu (Pictures), using his jab well to set up his right hand. Whenever Uematsu got in trouble he would go for the shot.
As with the “Lion” Takeshi-Ishikawa fight, Uematsu just got out-boxed in this one. In the dying seconds of the third, Osawa landed two hard right hands in close sucession that put his opponent down just as the bell rung to end the fight. Osawa took the unanimous victory.
In a very entertaining fight, Abe Ani Combat Club member Megumi Fujii took on Misaki Takimoto. This fight had lots of reversals, submission attempts and escapes. Both fighters often went for leg submissions. In the end it was Fujii who took the fight at the 4:36 mark of the second round by armbar.
Sato nearly had the victory within his reach in the opening moments of the first when he landed a grazing right hand that caught Carvalho on the top of the head, stunning the Canadian fighter. From here he went for a flying armbar and got it on, yet Carvalho was able to hang on and eventually escape.
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Things went downhill fast for Sato once Carvalho got the mount and started raining down punches. The Japanese fighter covered up but didn’t do anything to get Carvalho off of him. The bell sounded to end the first round with Carvalho still raining down punches and a visibly shaken Sato walked to his corner.
This scenario played itself out again very quickly in the second.
Carvalho again scored the mount and threw down a barrage of
punches. Sato tried to twist to escape the blows but to no avail.
The referee called a stop to the bout at the 49-second mark of
round two.
This was a huge win for Carvalho and he displayed his emotions in the ring. I’m not sure what lies ahead for Sato, but hopefully he’ll come back from this loss and display his talents in a SHOOTO ring again soon.
The bout between SHOOTO veterans Takeshi Inoue (Pictures) and Makoto Ishikawa (Pictures) really illustrated the different styles that these two fighters have. “Lion” Takeshi looked more like the classically trained boxer, whereas Ishikawa looked more like old-school MMA brawler.
Inoue moved extremely well throughout this bout, dancing around the ring and using his feet to avoid the hard haymakers that Ishikawa threw at him. His jab was lightning fast and he used it well to keep the distance and set up his combinations.
Pretty much all of the action in this one was on the feet and Ishikawa just got out-boxed, plain and simple. While he did land some hard shots on his opponent, the barrage of jabs and combinations was just too much for him. The fight went the distance and Takeshi took the unanimous victory.
Abe Ani Combat Club fighter Hiroyuki Abe (Pictures) took a page out of Masakuzu Imanari’s playbook in his fight against Tenkei Fujimiya (Pictures), attempting the patented “Imanari corkscrew baseball slide diving shoot” in both the second and third rounds.
Fujimiya was all over Abe in this one with strikes. His punches were snappy and he put together big combinations, almost ending the fight with a huge barrage of punches in the corner in the first round. Abe seemed a bit lackadaisical, he covered well but he didn’t initiate anything and threw almost no counter punches.
The fight went the distance and Fujimiya took the unanimous decision. Nova Uniao fighter Danilo Cherman did not look good on his feet in his fight against Mizuto Hirota (Pictures). Right from the start of the match his punches were wild and sloppy. At one point near the end of the first it looked like Hirota had knocked him out with punches when he dived into his guard, but the sharp eye of the referee saw that there was a headbutt when the Japanese fighter came flying in.
The troubles continued for Cherman on the ground, with Hirota firing shots from guard and half. To his credit, Cherman did have a few slick reversals during the match, but he ended up eating a lot of punches. The fight went the distance and Hirota walked away with the unanimous victory.
SHOOTO veteran Kenji Osawa (Pictures) displayed some solid boxing skills in his fight against Naoya Uematsu (Pictures), using his jab well to set up his right hand. Whenever Uematsu got in trouble he would go for the shot.
As with the “Lion” Takeshi-Ishikawa fight, Uematsu just got out-boxed in this one. In the dying seconds of the third, Osawa landed two hard right hands in close sucession that put his opponent down just as the bell rung to end the fight. Osawa took the unanimous victory.
In a very entertaining fight, Abe Ani Combat Club member Megumi Fujii took on Misaki Takimoto. This fight had lots of reversals, submission attempts and escapes. Both fighters often went for leg submissions. In the end it was Fujii who took the fight at the 4:36 mark of the second round by armbar.
