Fight underway:

ROUND ONE:

Fight starts similar to the last one, with Kosednar looking for takedowns and Yokota defending. Yokota trying to get something going with his punching, but hasn’t really done any damage as of yet. If anything, Kosednar may be getting the best with his counters. Fight goes to the ground and Yokota working inside Kosednar’s guard with 2 minutes left in the round. Kosednar closes the guard very tight and Yoktoa struggling to get anything going on offense. Kosendar tries for some sort of choke/facelock from the bottom but his opponent defends. Round ends this way–not the most exciting round, but closely contested and very tactical. Yokota was the aggressor so he’d probably get a narrow edge.

ROUND TWO:

Nice striking exchange to start the round with Yokota scoring with some uppercuts from close range and Kosednar retaliating with a flurry of his own. Ref separates the fighters to opposite corners and restarts for some reason. Kosednar gets a nice takedown on the restart and briefly takes his opponent’s back. Yokota reverses nicely and now works inside his opponent’s guard. In the last minute of another close, tactical round. Ref stands them up and yellow cards Kosednar for some reason–maybe b/c he was “stalling” keeping the guard really tight and not really doing anything. Yokota looking for a rear naked choke near the ropes but it doesn’t appear there’s enough time to do anything with it as the round is winding down. Kosednar reverses and lands a couple of nice strikes from the top as the bell rings. Yokota probably took this one as well…

ROUND THREE:

Awkward exchange to open the round with Yokota appearing to land a front kick and Kosdnar either going down or slipping. Yokotoa going for a takedown, Kosdnar grabs the ropes and now the ref shows both men a yellow card for reasons that are uncertain. Our source in the arena says that Yokota got a card and that Kosdnar got showed the card to keep him honest. Now Yokotoa *nails* Kosdnar in the gonads with a front kick and he’s in a lot of pain with his pasty white body turning beet read. He’s been down and in pain for about two minutes and a couple of Japanese medics are tending to him. They’ve got a towel over his groin and appear to be massaging his family jewels. Tough gig for everyone concerned. Not to get gross here, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Kosdnar has some sort of testicular injury judging from the time and concern the doctors are showing with him. The poor guy is in some *serious* pain as he ate that front kick full force. Kosdnar is more purple than red now and is starting to slowly make it to his feet. If he can continue he’s a better man than any of us. He removes his cup and hands it to his corner and then shoves a bag of ice down his trunks and that’s never a good sign. He’s walking around and doesn’t look like he’s going to die now and we may be ready to fight again. Kosdnar = toughest dude ever for continuing the bout after that kick to the groin. Yokota gets another yellow card and there’s not a dude in the audience that disagrees with the penalty.

Yokota trying to get top mount but no go and we’re back to stand up. Yokota lands a straight right and partially connects with a knee. He looks like he doesn’t want to get too close to Kosdnar and since he just kicked him in the nads real hard you can’t really y blame him. 1:30 left in the fight which the Japanese fighter would *probably* have won had it not been for the penalties. Kosdnar lands a straight right, perhaps his best punch of the fight but Yokota walks right throw it. Ref watching closely as Yokota tries for the takedown and Kosdnar uses the ropes again but gets away with it. :30 left now and looks like someone may be cut with some blood on the mat. May be from an earlier fight. Round ends that way…

KAZUNORI YOKOTA WINS BY UNANIMOUS DECISION