Morikawa ushers in the age of elbow in URCC XIX

Hideo Morikawa, sentimental favorite of the crowd, fell  victim to the new weapon in URCC's arsenal - the elbow. That dreaded joint, weilded expertly in the fight by Jessi Rafols ended the zendokai fighters impressive streak. Rafols mounted Morikawa with ease in the first canto of the first round and rained heavy leather and then raw bone  on the Japanese fighter, giving him a taste of his own medicine.


A slicing elbow by rafols opened a deep cut on the brow of morikawa and just for good measure, Rafols landed another that closed the left eye of the Nippon Skull cracker. The evening was Rafols, but the elbow stole the show.

 congratulations to bothe fighters, Hideo was magnanimous in defeat and we know he will be back for more.

Morikawa vs Rafols - URCC Colission

Hideo "Death from Tokyo" Morikawa, a Kyokushin/Zendokai Black belt is ripping through the local MMA scene with a four-zip record.  A glimpse of his brutal prowess was in the Black Tie Brawl were he opened a gusher on his hapless opponent Roldan Cartajena with knee strikes to the head. Charles de Tomas experienced the same treatment in a later match  and had to be ambulanced of the grounds due to the razor like appendage of the nippon fighter.

Jessi Rafols, Old School tough-as-nails boxer, will lay ot all out against the Japanese foghter on April 2, 2011 at the WTC, not just a striker but a well versed sambo practitioner, Rafols, is coming of a loss of Docyogen ( who hasn't lost to that pocket battleship anyway?) Rafols has had an array of impressive wins, via ground and pound , submission and KO, so Jessi is looking like the complete package for this fight.


 However, do not count Hideo out. He has proven to be a tough, solid fighter, well-grounded and immensley  confident, he has the stuff that the "Budokan" is famous for - the traditional Japanese fighting spirit and training will serve him well in this much awaited bantamweight fight.

MMA Philippines fight fans -see you in WTC!!!

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