Asian Mixed Martial Arts Championship in Uzbekistan: Kritsada Kongsrichai Dream Man lost a close fight to an athlete from Tajikistan. Still waiting on the Asian Games quota. Che
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Asian Mixed Martial Arts Championship in Uzbekistan: Kritsada Kongsrichai Dream Man lost a close fight to an athlete from Tajikistan. Still waiting on the Asian Games quota. Send support to Dream Man Kritsada...
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Asian Mixed Martial Arts Championship in Uzbekistan: Kritsada Kongsrichai Dream Man lost a close fight to an athlete from Tajikistan. Still waiting on the Asian Games quota. Send support to Dream Man Kritsada...
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little rocky for music well played DJ Ilya keep doing what you're doing no notes my brother again another quarterfinal here the men's cage 56 kg these two gentlemen have both already competed here today Let's see what we've got here. Both relatively unscathed after their first bout, but did have to work for it. And the winner on mat A by TKO is the Blue Corner, Bagheri Fashid from Iran. Another banger. This is so much fun. And next up on map A. In the quarter finals of the traditional MMA men 65 kilogram weight category. In the blue corner, Amal M. Saud from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. If you are just tuning in, those walkouts are for Matt Day, which we are also streaming on the YouTube channel. You are fortunate enough to be here. Matt B. Feel free to open two windows and watch both simultaneously. We've got modern MMA over here. No grabbing of the clothing. We've got rash guard tops. Over there is traditional MMA with the gi top, the super cool Cobra Kai short sleeve gi top. Grabbing of the clothing is allowed. You can throw your opponent, you can choke him with the lapel, and you can just grab him by the lapel and punch him in the face if you'd like. Both terrifically entertaining styles here. AMA 2026 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. We are now on to another quarterfinal, 56 kgs. We've got Tajikistan and Thailand in there. Tajikistan in the blue, Thailand in the red. Both of these gentlemen have already competed and won today. Here we go. Sayali covered a lot of ground right at the opening and he's got Kritsada on the border. He's circled out of there now. He looks pretty comfortable around the border, not trying to take the center of the mat. He's a very crafty wrestler. Ali is a very crafty striker. It's kind of a role reversal here. Kritsada with a very strong wrestling background. He started with the Thai national wrestling team, leveled up to one championship in MMA. Was an absolute suplex machine until they banned the maneuver. And now he's here chasing gold and he's got a very game Kamilov Sayali right in front of him. Very close round at this point. Looks like one mistake from either of these guys could be catastrophic. Oh, whoa. Yeah, I mean, Kritsada finished up that combo with that kick but he was just too close. The timing was awful. up getting taken down with very little effort from Sayali. Now we're here in the 20 second timer. They'll be stood back up in a second because not much going on here. Well done by Sayali. Kritsada hung out in that position because he knew we were going to get stood up. But not a lot of time left to work here and very close round. Somebody's got to do Curious why Kristera is so comfortable right on the edge of the mat. I feel like this is all in an effort to surprise him when there's a shot coming. Because he is a phenomenal wrestler. But he may have felt the strength of Sayulee early and decided wrestling may not be the way to go here. He's also got a Muay Thai background, he's an effective striker. Thirty seconds left at work here, kind of anybody's round if anything significant were to take place. Timing on the shot was great but he may have eaten a knee or kicked to the face to get it done and now we are all over the place and Kritsada ends up on top. Oh and we've been reversed again. Now Xia Li on top. Very curious to see how the judges just scored this. I'd say it could be sally, could be a push. May not have a majority. First of two rounds in the books here in our 56 kg men's quarterfinal. We are having a very good time here in Tashkent. Good shot of the tie corner there. Certainly need to see some adjustments from Kritsada. I'm sure Sayuli is looking to do things better there, but it was a fairly effective round for him. Yep. We had one push. Judge from Tajikistan had a 10-10 the other two for Sayulee so Kritsada has got essentially a single point to make up I don't expect either of these guys to go quietly there we are again we've lost the center of the mat already and it doesn't feel like a deliberate strategy yeah you know from certain angles you really do get to see how much bigger sire Lee is then Chris it up I'd like to see the tie get into a little bit more wrestling here there you go this is largely what he's known for and again he might be familiar to a lot of you out there in the audience. Some very successful wins for one championship. Packed houses in Bangkok's Impact Arena, but you better be careful of that arm bar from the bottom from Sayulee. I don't think he's got an arm. He's got, yeah. He had the legs in the right position, he just didn't have an arm. Now, Kritsada doing much better since Much better since we left the feet deliberately, but kind of a crazy scramble. Good strategy there. He lost the position, had the ability to kind of just get out of bounds and get a reset. Very close fight. Very, very close match we have here. Yeah. The length and size of Sayulee is tough for Kritsada to deal with on the feet. He's got to be careful of that one-two combo where he follows up with a low kick. He just got himself so off balance earlier in the first round. Kind of a crazy trip. Sayulee almost tripped himself. Kritsada with just amazing technique and amazing strength. Oof. That sneaky front kick, sort of teep up to the face from Sayali is scary. I mean, Chris, it might be leading this round, but you want to be real careful. It's a tough matchup. The body types are wildly different. Yep, and he is. He's wise enough. He's not going to go for that shot unless it's set up well with one or two of these, or he can get himself right into the clinch. and Xia Li not making it easy for him. That was a sneaky, cheeky takedown. We've got 25 seconds left here. Not much going on. This might be the best option for Kritsada here to try and keep his opponent from scoring any further from this top position. And Sayulee wisely trying to get off any shots he can here in the final seconds. This is close. Wow. Uh-oh. You know, Sayulee took two of the three judges in the first round. One judge saw it 10-10. Another very close round. This is going to be a close one. Let's wait to hear what the professional judges have to say. Here we go. And your winner on map B by unanimous decision is the Blue Corner. Kamal Osaile from Tajikistan. That's reasonable, but boy, okay, yeah, we have an 18-28, you know, 2018-2018 and a 2019. Close, close, bout.