[Music] Apparently, uh, they don't know that they have to get their announcements done yet. Frankly, that the announcers, like you,

guys, just go back to your corner for two seconds. Just [Music] [Applause]

[Applause] No, okay, okay. Way's like, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, hey, let's go, yeah, whatever, whatever. We're here to

fight. I don't, I don't want to hear anymore. Let's go. He's listening to his grandpa. Shut up.

Dad, I'm going to the fight. Shut up. Here we go. This is one of the fights I've been looking forward to the

most. Yuri has a loss to Muhammad. He was knocked out a while ago, uh, but Yuri's had an incredible

incredible run going on right now and is literally one of the next guys that could be a superstar here in

Japan if he wins this fight tonight. Um, Carl, on the other hand, just because no one really knows him that much, only has

seven fights. It's very difficult to say what he can do. But both these guys are super slick

fighters. Fantastic. Look for Yuri's jumping knees. Look for Carl to try and close the distance, get this one down to

the ground and use his ground game. Not going to lie to you, ladies and gentlemen, I am surprised even though

it's not even a minute past, or sorry, a minute into the first round that there hasn't been some explosiveness

here. These two guys are very intense. They really want to, really understand they want to get rid of the other guy from anyone's radar. At Ryzen,

wow! Wow! Nice, nice movement by Carl, but Yuri's doing a good job of getting out of the way and a really good head motion.

Even though his hands—you look how Yuri's hands are always kind of down—but he's still very difficult to

Hit there it is. This is exactly what Albert wanted; he wanted to get this fight down to the ground. He's got plenty

of time, plenty of time here to suck the wind out of Prasa. Slowly but surely, methodically move up the guard, move past

the half guard, trying into side control.  Carl does not have a very tight game on top; it's a very

strong game though. He's very—he's got a lot of leverage, a lot of flexibility with this top game, but he's not like a

smothering top guy that that's going to suck a lot of energy out from you, but

what he does do very well, he's very sneaky with his punches. All of a sudden, rotate his shoulder over; he's catching

the top of the head, or he's throwing an elbow in. You can't ever rest, even though

you're not being crushed and being smothered, you can't rest down here because he's gonna hit you with

something that's gonna either cut you or do a lot of [Music] damage. Here, he's got to get his legs

involved. He wants to get out of this; he's right now, his feet are in the air, anything planted... Oh, Carl's got his his

hand... Wow! Who was it? Way back, way, way, way back. I think it was Tank Abbot against

Hughle Duarte. He had the hand trapped and just fed him—fed him the punches. Or Vlad—Vladimir

Mesenko. Every time we would go together in practice, did you just let go? This is just Djanor, the janitor. Yes, sir. What

you going to do now? What are you going to do now? Just take this. What you going... Ian, shut up! I can't get

out again here. Elbertson in full control, slowly but surely trying to make Yuri eat some punches.

[Music] You're doing a somewhat okay job of defending here; it needs to be a little bit

more careful. It's a lot of time for Carl to be on top of you. You got down; there was

eight and a half minutes left in the round. Nice attempt there by Praska trying to explode out of there, but see

how he's exploding where his feet are up in the air? Joe, he he's got no pressure; he's using everything of his upper torso.

He's got to put his feet on the ground and use his hips; get his hips involved. Right now, he's expending a lot of energy,

which is helping Carl out because it's making him more exhausted without having to really worry about him getting out of

there. Just about four minutes gone in the opening round. This is scheduled for two rounds: 10 minutes, second round 5

minutes. Carl Albertson on top of Yuri Praska. Frank said Yuri's positioning is incorrect here when he tried to buck to

the right side, which is the smart thing to do, but I believe, Frank, you need to buck and hip escape. If the buck fails,

you're ready to do both. And what we're seeing is a lot of one-time, let me hit

this, one-time explosive position. Let's see what happens, as opposed to hitting uh... and it took me a very long time to

learn this: that you can't do one position; you have to do a series of super small ones until you can get a

position change where that one big one is going to get you completely out. Uh, Yu's stepping all the way up to the final and

not getting away. There you go, little old school here; elbow dragged across the face. Obviously, we didn't say before the

fight or during the intros, elbows are allowed; both both fighters have agreed to elbows in this one. And, to be honest, we've had a lot

of Fighters tonight and grief for elbows and we really haven't seen that much damage done with elbows at all, obviously

under Japanese uh MMA rules, you know, the head stomps and soccer kicks, we haven't seen very many tonight.

Right, we saw the one knee for the finish uh earlier, but it was already done before the knee even came in.

Um, and the knee barely didn't really land that well. I mean, obviously, you know, Asakura knew it was already done and

didn't throw full force into it. So there we go. Barasa gets out, a good job defending himself down there. 4 and a

half minutes to go in the opening round here. He was able to survive what Alberton wanted to do in this fight was

to get it down to the ground and punish Yuri. Didn't do much punishing in my opinion, Frank, and now it's time for

Barasa to really pick up the pace here, try and get this finish to stand up. This is where he wants

it. Bobbing and weaving is Barasa, as Alberton is trying to ensure that this is not a target you're going to hit.

It's a moving target. Respect. Went to throw a kick or knee and Barasa shook it off. In that body

lock, it's a mistake for Barasa when he does strike in that manner to get too close to Alberton, because Alberton wants

the double underhooks, wants to clinch. He's such a long fighter, he's so tall, he needs to use his length a lot

more. He's really not using his length, really trying to step inside, because he's explosive, he is strong, but he needs to

use a lot more of his length in this position, because if you let Barasa on the inside, he's going to take you down

again. Lazy. I like those lazy kicks; you don't know where they're coming from. The timing is generally off, and boom! Shin

across the head, but here's Al saying, "You're not doing that again. We're going to the ground." I thought uh, Y was going

to be able to turn the corner on him as he got him thrown and put him on his back. Instead, he gets caught down. Oh, did

he... Oh, look, Carl's bleeding! So he got hit with something. I didn't see what caused that. Uh, uh, I don't know if it's a cut or

his nose is just leaking; his head's leaking. The referee's taking a look; he pointed to his

mouth. No, that's coming out of the nose; that's the nose. I wonder if it was that kick. The

way he landed... So I saw the referee tap his forehead as he was talking, and so I assumed it was his head was bleeding, but

it's a headbutt. So was a prob—say an accidental clash the way they when they jumped into each other. Okay, they caught

him on the nose, I'm guessing. I don't know for sure. Wait till the round's over for

and get it all sorted out. Just over two minutes ago on this opening round, Albertson hasn't where he

wanted now, and I'm sure there's a sense of urgency realizing that that is my blood that is falling on top of my

opponent, and I'm on top of my opponent. I got to bloody him up now. You never know how bad you're actually bleeding when

you're in it; all you see is blood everywhere, and you realize it's your own. Not you're like, okay, if this goes to the

doctors, this might stop; I might lose this fight. I've got to keep moving; I've got to keep trying to get this get this

fight in position right and win. Unfortunately for Carl right now, he's in a spot where he could win this fight, but

Yuri is so good from the bottom that he is stopping him from being able to to do any kind of real solid

Damage? You just saw the look from the referee's angle. The referee—the referee's here at ringside. Do we have cameras?

He's still trying the ground pound here. Albert's still working away here, just over a minute to go here in the opening

round. As you saw there, Frank, Yuri just kind of opened his hands, going like, 'Are we going to still be here for a while?' or

—'cause you're not doing anything.' Yeah, well, the thing is that on the bottom, he's not taking any damage, so he feels like

there's really nothing going on; there's nothing happening. But as we can see, and as you guys can see at home, that there

is a lot of action going on. Carl keeps battling to keep on top; he keeps moving. Every time Yuri tries to get out of half

guard, he puts him back. Fist! There we go! There's some shots being landed there now. We got the elbows that Frank Tri was

mentioning. Why he stopped, I don't know, for the position, but he could have kept going. Frank, absolutely. I mean,

Oh, good job by Yuri to keep getting out of there! Fantastic job by Prasa! And now there's—there was the

jumping knee attempt there. That was nice! Left hook landed by Albertson! Now 20 seconds to go! He drops him! Prasa drops

him! Uppercut! 15 seconds to go in the opening round! Picking up the pace is Prasa, bobbing and weaving. His head is

all over the place! Albertson's taking the shots; hair flying everywhere! The referee steps in and says that is enough right before the final bell!

Prasa, after surviving the ground and pound on the ground, emerges victorious to defeat Carl Albertson with seconds to go in the

opening round! That's incredible! He was completely getting schooled on the bottom; was in a very bad position; never allowed any kind

of damage to come down there. When the damage did come, he took advantage of it, 'cause when someone sits up, he's been

Holding it for all this time, he sits up, gives you damage. He's now let you go and...

Usually what happens is everyone starts to panic, and he gets punched and he gets elbowed, and then you jump back down and...

hold him again. The moment he was able to shift the position, once he got a little bit of damage done to him from...

the top side, he moved himself out of it, got on top, took full advantage to be able to finish the fight. Very puzzled, am I, to be honest with you, with Alberon, the way he was finally able to land those hammer fist punches and then stopped...

Perasa. Got up and then said, "That's it, I'm going to finish you off here." And this was seconds to go, seconds to go at...

the end of the round. Wow! Great job. A year, and he... he can be a superstar. He can be one of the... one of the guys that rise...

and pushes and becomes one of their main guys. He's got... he's got the attitude, and when he fights like this, where he's...

getting beat, he is getting beat. He was losing the fight to this point, to come back in and get a...

stoppage. Thank you, all guys. Guys, thanks. Thanks for... thanks for supper. It was hard, like I... thinking this fight, but yeah, must be...

hard. Thank you for everything. Good... good... good ground from Car, but the winner is... am I? Thanks, and say hello to Crup. Thanks for everything, Ging.

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