In Jae La vs. Dong Hwan Lim 3R UD
Kyung Chul Min vs. Zhenyue Huang 3R UD
Hae Jin Park vs. Byung Ok Cho 3R UD
Anding Ma vs. Junpei Hamada 3R UD
In Soo Hwang vs. Nae Chul Kim 0:50 R1
Heili Alateng vs. Ik Hwan Jang 3:06 R1
Jae Hyuk Heo vs. Jae Hoon Kim 4:20 R1
Young Gi Hong vs. Tae Woong Eom 4:54 R2
Road FC Lightweight Tournament Semifinal: Shamil Zavurov vs. Ronys Torres 3R UD
Road FC Lightweight Tournament Semifinal: Mansour Barnaoui vs. Kota Shimoishi 1:47 R3
Jung Young Lee vs. Se Young Kim 3:30 R1
Bruno Miranda vs. Baoshe Riguleng 3R Unanimous Dec
Won Bin Ki vs. Thirayut Khaorat 3R Unanimous Dec
Yingchao Jing vs. Marina Kumagai 2R Unanimous Dec
Yincang Bao vs. Shinji Sasaki 3R Unanimous Dec. Sasaki, probably better known as the husband of all-time great Megumi Fujii, has some dynamic chain submission skills, but just lacks the adjustment and/or the 2nd burst on his takedowns to get himself into advantageous positions against striker Bao. It's an entertaining fight at times, but Sasaki always has to take punishment for the hope of getting an opportunity to work a submission, so he often looks like the BJJ specialist in old PRIDE, laying on his back hoping Bao will take the bait rather than just make him stand up & land another handful of clean shots to the chin.
Heili Alateng vs. Jong Hyun Kwak 2:40 R2
Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Handong Kong 4:46 R2
2018 Openweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal: Chris Barnett vs. Alexandru Lungu 2:34 R1
2018 Openweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal: Oli Thompson vs. Chaolong Deng 3:49 R2
Gabi Garcia vs. Veronika Futina 3:49 R1
2018 Openweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal: Gilbert Yvel vs. Mighty Mo 3:43 R2. Yvel explodes into an armbar, really hyperextending Mo's arm, but Mo simply refuses to tap. Mo actually manages to roll to his knees & take the top, but Yvel continues to work the arm, so now the pressure is on the outside of the elbow rather than against the joint, and it totally gives out as Mo is trying to cut an angle crawling while Yvel is trying to flatten him back out.
2018 Openweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal: Aorigele vs. Jae Hoon Kim 0:33 R3
Ik Tae Jin vs. Han Yong Lee 4:50 R1
Tae Young Ahn vs. Jae Sung Park 1:34 R1
Seung Min Baek vs. Do Hyung Kwon 1:47 R2
Bakhtiyar Uulu Toichubaev vs. Sang Jin Jung 2R UD
Baasankhuu Damlanpurev vs. Dong Hyuk Ko 2R MD
Soo Wan Park vs. Jong Hyun Kwak 2R SD
Hyung Soo Kim vs. Chang Geun Jeon 2R UD
Yi Moon Han vs. Jae Nam Yoo R1
Jong Hwan Lee vs. Dae Sung Kim 2R UD
Tamotsu Hayashi vs. Dong Guk Shin R2 3:27
Won Jun Choi vs. Uh Jin Jeon 3R UD
Mika Arai vs. Ye Ji Lee 2R UD
Michel Pereira vs. Hae Jun Yang 1:48 R3. Pereira is often compared to Anthony Pettis, and I can see that although he's several times crazier or more carefree than even the young, confident WEC version of Showtime. I think he's very much his own entity, but if I had to pick the fighter he reminds me of most, it would be Cung Le because he's just out there doing things out of an action movie, except they somehow work one way or another. Moreso than Le, with Pereira they also don't work, but I think he's fine with that. Everything he does has its place, and while that place may mostly be to entertain, there seems to be some method to his madness as well. Sometimes it seems he's trying to distract the opponent with something he doesn't expect to land just so he overloads their brain with so many options, rendering them unable to defend his simple one-two punch combo. Pereira is a really powerful striker & he uses a lot of footwork to try to open up his big shots. When they land, they do a lot of damage, and even though none of the low percentage stuff really did, he in turn landed a really high percentage of his simply offense. In this fight, he had success with the same few strikes repeatedly, the overhand right & the short range or clinch knee, but it's almost that these bread & butter techniques for him are less obvious because he's throwing in flashy stuff in between rather than trying to press the simple advantages. Granted, even though he's a superior athlete, better opponents would make him pay in a big way, particularly with takedowns when he puts himself in compromising positions leaving his feet. What's interesting is that even though Pereira is dancing & leaping all over the place, trying 360 kicks and rolling kicks, it's Yang that actually tires out more, from taking heavy shots & having to force takedowns but perhaps also just melting down from trying to deal with this unconventional wildman. Yang really doesn't seem to know how to answer the nonsense Pereira is throwing at him, and Pereira could then catch him off guard, anticipating his opponent would come forward to counter his techniques that leave him momentarily prone, and then having a counter ready. When Pereira missed a reverse spinning high kick, Yang stepped forward with a middle kick only to take a left hook to the liver. After a backflip that may or may not have puportedly been some kind of overhead kick, Yang tried to come in with a hook, but took a knee to the midsection then Pereira stumbled out of the pocket & reentered with a flying knee. The obvious question is what can Pereira do when he's taken down, and in addition to simply making that difficult, he passed these tests well in the 2nd, both showing he can get back up quickly & that he can defend well enough to avoid being damaged or threatened. Pereira was much more conventional after the first round due to Yang's takedowns early in the 2nd, coming in with single power shots. He was definitely trying to dig himself out of the deficit to win the round back, but the main reason may have been more that he was trying to get his second wind after expending a lot of energy in grappling defense, as his one spinning kick was much slower. Pereira did a good job of mixing his attacks to the body & to the head, and at the end of the 2nd they really began to take their toll, closing with a big flurry of head punches & body knees that had the announcer saying Yang was saved by the bell. Yang pushed hard for the takedown in the 3rd because it was his only means to not take punishment and perhaps find a path to a finish, but Pereira defended the takedowns then landed big knees on the inside. Yang's hands were too low, and Pereira was now able to simply lead with the big overhand right, which made it a lot easier to then follow to the body. Yang was really getting lit up, with his only answer being to throw wildly to try to stay in the fight, but just missing with everything & taking more big shots. The ref stopped it when Pereira backed Yang into the cage with a couple of knees. This was a pretty big mismatch, but Yang has a really good chin & made it competitive enough that Pereira had to work hard to finish the fight. Very good match.
RFC Middleweight Title: In Jae La vs. Young Choi 3R SD. In Jae hits a nice belly to belly suplex at the end of the fight, perhaps putting him over the top for the decision.
Zhenyue Huang vs. Thirayut Khaorat 0:51 R1
Hae Jin Park vs. Evgeniy Ryazanov 2:23 R1
Ming Shi vs. Shiho Harada 2R SD
Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Justin Morton 1:19 R2
Mu Bae Choi vs. Anding Ma 4:09 R1
Tatsuya Mizuno vs. Eun Soo Lee 2:32 R1
Woo Jae Kim vs. Won Hee Jung 2R UD
Gi Won Ko vs. Young Han Kim 0:22 R2
Sung Jae Kim vs. Chang Hwan Hwang 2:41 R1
Chan Soo Park vs. Yong Geun Kim 2R UD
Yuki Ito vs. Tae Kyun Kim 4:58 R1
Dong Hwan Lim vs. Jung Kyo Park 2:48 R1
Gun Oh Shim vs. Jae Hyuk Heo 0:23 R1
Yuri Shim vs. So Hee Lim 2R UD
Jae Nam Yoo vs. Yi Moon Han 4:51 R2
Young Gi Hong vs. Koji Nakamura 3R UD
Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Mu Bae Choi 1:55 R1
RFC Featherweight Title: Jung Young Lee vs. Mu Gyeom Choi 3R UD