AikaImmortal

still intros.. they mention Tomihira having trained with Fujimoto, who will be fighting Badr Hari later tonight for the K-1 HW Title (K-1 this year created individual titles to go along with the Grand Prix titles).

Buffer totally manages to say Alexandr Pitchkounov as if it were as simple as saying "Steve Jones", but he says that it is 2006. Now I know how to say Alexandr's last name. I will refer to him as Alexandr still because I cannot type Pitchkounov very fast.

14-14 overall record for Tomihara. Was not very familair with him at all until tonight. Alexandr is 4-0-1 hopeful that he does well tonight.

RD1:
Alexaandr lands a few low kicks while Tomihara attempts a few push kicks, a jab, and so far is managed to check Alexandrs kicks but nothing much else. Little action up until 1:44 mark where Alexandr lands several short jabs, working into the clinch with Tomihara. After the break Tomihara keeps pressing Alexandr back with jabs.. however Tomihara managed to work himself into the corner and takes a few blows but is managed to cover up fairly well. Tanaka-san just said 'Soo desu nee' for the 19th time during this fight..heh
0:36 seconds of RD1 Alexandr uses the ring control to his advantage and knocks Tomihara down with a knee from the clench and several hooks, but Tomihara answers the standing 8. After the standup, short low blow timeout and then bell.

RD2:
Alexandr attempts a spinning cresent kick, and works into a clinch that is broken up fairly quickly. Continues pushing Tomihara towards a corner landing more hooks, eventually landing back into Tomiharas clench. After the break.. you guessed it, more of the same, 2 head 1 body hook 2 head 1 body.. clinch/break. 1:39 of round 2.. Tomihara is doing little but covering up and throwing the occasional knee to the body. Gets in the clinch and pushes Alexanr into the corner before the ref breaks it up. Oddly, since Alexandr did nothing to escape the clinch either, he is apperantly given a warning. Tomihara is showing little desire to be in the ring whatsoever. Alexandr seems content to land a few blows and dance around during the waning seconds of round 2, having landed many scoring combos already. My guess is he will conserve energy in round 3 so he can have some gas in the tank for the rest of the tourny.

RD3:
hook hook knee clinch. After the break Tomihara attemps some sort of backfist and falls on his ass. The ref calls it a slip. Back to the clinch and on the break this time Tomihara falls down again after taking a few blows pre-clinch.. the ref calls a down to check on the welfare of Tomihara.. Tomihara answers the count and lands a nice axe kick on Alexandr but quickly falls back into the corner and the speedy hooks of the russian Pitchkouv. Alexandr lands 3 or 4 quick jabs after another bevy of hooks, knocking Tomihara down.. the ref does not even attempt to give Tomihara a standing 8, stopping the fight for his own safety.


Coming up:
Junichi Sawayashiki v Randy Kim (superfight 1)

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