Toshiomi Kazama scored an enormous win earlier tonight (Sat., Aug. 10, 2024) at UFC Vegas 95 dwell on ESPN/ESPN+ from inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, gorgeous bantamweight prospect Charalampos Grigoriou with a formidable triangle choke off his again within the second spherical.
Grigoriou was the pre-fight favourite as Kazama had been completed in every of his earlier two UFC appearances. The Japanese fighter has proven a suspect chin and most thought Grigoriou’s energy would play a big position within the early going. It did.
The primary spherical was a back-and-forth affair, however you possibly can inform Grigoriou was doing probably the most harm. He carried his momentum into the second spherical and scored a big-time knockdown with a brutal left hand. Grigoriou went to work touchdown heavy ground-and-pound. Sadly, Kazama was capable of climate the storm. Grigoriou ultimately drained and it allowed Kazama to lock up the comeback stoppage.
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Kazama, 27, got here into this foremost card opening driving that two-fight dropping streak so it was mainly a must-win for “The Silent Finisher.” He was getting busted up fairly good and a case may be made that the referee might have stopped the combat, however Kazama saved shifting and dug deep to earn his come-from-behind stoppage over Grigoriou.
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