Well-liked Deep Jewels fighter Keito “Kate Lotus” Oyama earned the most important victory of her MMA profession in featured girls’s tremendous atomweight motion tonight at Rizin Combating Federation: “World Sequence In Korea” in Incheon, South Korea. Oyama defeated former Street FC champion Yu Ri Shim.
Oyama, whose first Rizin FF bout led to a disappointing defeat in July, captured her first win for the promotion in spectacular vogue by outworking Shim within the hanging and grappling exchanges. After struggling prior to now with consistency, Oyama has now received three of her previous 4 fights.
Oyama (7-7-0) shortly focused the lead leg of Shim (6-6-0) with kicks within the opening spherical, which she used to arrange straight left arms. Shim linked with a handful of proper crosses, however she was by no means capable of chain any sustained offence collectively and Oyama remained efficient together with her kicks. Within the second spherical, Oyama continued to fare nicely on the ft, and he or she additionally took Shim down twice. Late within the spherical, Oyama held Shim down towards the bottom of the cage and landed two laborious knees to her face.
Shim did rally in spherical three, and he or she linked with knees and elbows throughout an early clinch, however Oyama responded with two extra takedowns and he or she as soon as once more stifled Shim’s offence. With the seconds ticking down, Oyama hopped on Shim’s again and secured a good rear-naked choke. Shim gave the impression to be in hassle, however the bell sounded and the bout went to the scorecards. All three judges sided with Oyama for a well-deserved Unanimous Choice win.
Whereas she has positively encountered a number of ups and downs in her profession, the 27-year-old Oyama has proven a whole lot of enchancment in the course of the previous 15 months and this was one other robust efficiency tonight. The fan favorite has had a whole lot of hype behind her, courting again to her professional debut, however she is lastly realising that potential and has now received back-to-back fights for the primary time.
