Striking SORCERY 🔮🥊 Nadaka vs. Rak | Muay Thay Full Fight

Speaker 1: smiles. I like that. You got that open stance battle, Rich. Right side versus the left. Rak pump faking the low kick and he lands there with the inside leg kick. This is Nadaka's debut in ONE Championship, but he does have small gloves Muay Thai experience. See Rak lets him out of the corner right there and that cost him that kick. The speed of Nadaka is on display early on as he fires a right hand to the body and immediately circles outside. He's a very dangerous southpaw striker. He can switch, but he prefers to fight southpaw. Nice little check on the retaliatory leg kick thrown by Rak. Speaker 2: Yeah, these are just feelers that are going back and forth right now. Nobody's really Speaker 1: Nice little combination. But Rak comes back immediately. Nadaka has that one-two down to the body. Rak comes back with the head kick. I really like his straight left hand to the body, Rich. It is a beautifully timed shot and he really commits to it. He steps in, creates just that right angle and goes right down the pipe to land that body shot as he steps in and lands a knee and circles out. Speaker 2: When you watch both these guys, he stepped in, landed that knee. Rak came forward immediately, landed the kick. Each time one of them lands a shot, the other one is already ready to fire back. Their feet are always underneath them. Speaker 1: Both these two gentlemen. Oh, what a shot. Oh, he's down. Watch out. The prestigious Lumpinee Stadium. ONE Championship only brings the best of the best onto the world stage as Nadaka tries to go right down the middle with that front kick. The Kazuki Geri. Nice roundhouse shot thrown by Nadaka and he evades the counter roundhouse kick by Rak. Speaker 2: Yeah, Rak is trying to get to the inside to use those hands. That is his strategy. But he's letting Nadaka off. You see Nadaka lands that cross and then circles out. Rak needs, he's got his back on the ropes. He can't let him off of this right here. He needs to take advantage of it. And there goes Nadaka resetting. Speaker 1: Young athletes need to watch Nadaka's footwork. He needs to have an instructional on it because the way that he is able to keep his feet underneath him, never gets overextended, is really high level striking. Speaker 2: He doesn't even get overextended when you watch him when he angles off, his feet will still be underneath him ready to go. Speaker 1: Rak closing the distance. Misses with the right hand. He needs to cut that ring off to avoid. Speaker 2: You see Nadaka there just throws that in and out, slips and evades that the counter retaliation by Rak, but there, boom. Throws that cross and then back out. Manages distance just like that, moving backwards. Rak has walked him back to the the corner and he needs to keep him here and Speaker 1: Right again. Nadaka gets his back right off the ropes. Good footwork to evade getting pinned up against the ropes. Speaker 2: He walked across the ring just so that he had more real estate to deal with so that his back wasn't running into the ropes faster. Smart strategic move by him at the opening of the round. Speaker 1: Nadaka using primarily a hand and foot attack on Rak as Rak continues to press. But there's just he's just not there for the counter shot. Nadaka comes in, lets go of his combination and then vanishes like that. Speaker 2: Yeah. Beautiful head movement, eyes, but the reaction time. Speaker 1: Similar to an F1 driver. Just look at that beautiful evasion, the footwork. He's gone. Stings him with the left hand and Rak tries to come forward. Speaker 2: Yeah, Nadaka had a series of single punch, single strike combinations if you want to call them that. It was strike, slip, evade, strike, slip, evade, strike, slip, evade over and over again. Untouched. He hit Rak three or four times. He's just disappearing. Speaker 1: I would love to see an atomweight division built around Nadaka Yoshinari. Definitely announcing to ONE Championship that the atomweights are here. Oh, beautiful shot. Oh, he's down. Speaker 2: Oh, Olivier Cost stepped in. It could have been a groin shot. Injury time. Speaker 1: As right as Olivier came in, Nadaka fired a shot down the middle. Speaker 2: Take it right there, Rich. This is the kick that comes in and you can hear it. Olivier calls time, but he didn't get there fast enough before the sniper himself. I mean, that's quick reaction speeds. You're going to have to be right on top of that. And Nadaka was able to land that cross. So that was not a knockdown. Time on the injury, the groin shot was called prior to that. Rak has some time to not only shake off the groin shot, but shake off that cross that landed as well. Speaker 1: Whatever you can. Rak, it means protector in the Thai language. And Rak is going to need to stay protected here in this second round because Nadaka, you can see the scorecards, the count is on the body and the face of Rak. It's just getting touched up not only to the body, but also to the face. It was a groin shot. Speaker 2: Damage being one of our highest scoring categories, obviously, you could just you could tell and this is more of a cumulative damage. Here's another look at the groin shot that comes right there. You know, that's one of the worst ones too because it actually came from the bottom of the cup up and then lifted the cup. And you can see Rak reacting to it immediately and Nadaka, Nadaka knew after he hit him, but these things are happening in full speed that you know, your ability to react after that kick and throw that punch. Like he realized after it landed like, I am so sorry. Speaker 1: Even Nadaka can't keep up with his own speed. He's too fast for himself. Apologies, showing that Bushido spirit, that integrity, that honor, but immediately get back to smashing each other. Rak needs to I'd like to see him work closer with the hands, get Nadaka to cover up and then start letting go. He's just not there for these big shots as his first line of attack. He's got to close the distance and find a way to get inside. Speaker 2: Nadaka's doing a good job now with that push kick. I think Rak is pursuing the inside a bit more relentlessly. The problem is that every time Rak throws a kick, Nadaka is able to spin off to his, you know, his lead side of Rak's weak side. Speaker 1: But you can see so many of these punches Rak threw a right cross there. Nadaka just slipped back out and came back in. They're just missing because his footwork is that fast. His head movement is that fast. Look at the inside of the leg of Rak. Getting eaten up from Nadaka. The body is red and the face is red and Nadaka goes to the knee to the body. Stings him to the body and finds a shot in the chin. You see that right there? Nadaka two-piece combination. Oh, he's wobbling. He went to the body too. Toes to the liver. Nadaka is swarming Rak. Thirty seconds to go here in this second. Speaker 2: I don't think Rak is still on stable legs. Oh. Catch a kick there and counter back with that that hook to the face. Speaker 1: That front kick to the body has just been on display here in Japan versus the world, Rich. The Kazuki Geri is what they call it. Some call it a Maegeri, but it is just effective no matter what you call it. Oh, great head movement. Rak trying to close that distance. Misses with the right hand. Nadaka ties him up. Nadaka's doing a good job when he is trapped against the ropes. He immediately engages Rak in that clinch just to. That head kick landed clean. Push kick immediately off of the rebound, goes right up top with the head kick. Rak eats it and continues to walk him down. Rak's hunting. Wow. Speed. Nadaka vanishes, circles out to the right. Speaker 2: Nadaka does such an amazing job. He doesn't just slip backwards. He he never moves linearly. Watch him angle off right there. He slips and he he evades his head back and then and then angles it at 90 degrees so that he's not even in the place that you think he's going to be to return. Speaker 1: Rak showcasing the heart of a warrior. Continues to hunt for one big shot. All he needs is one big moment and Rak can end the night, but he's got to find him and he just can't seem to do that. Speaker 2: Even when he's closing distance right there, you saw him close the distance with the right hand. Nadaka is able to disappear and then he comes back up and just engages in the clinch to stop the action so that the referee will break them apart. Speaker 1: In this Japan versus the world at ONE 172, Japan is up five to one. Will Nadaka extend the lead to six or can Rak put some points on the board for the world? Big push kick. Speaker 2: I just want to remind the audience here, you know, Mitch, we talk about how skilled Rak is, like what quality of fighter he is and Nadaka is just putting on a master class right now. Speaker 1: Just a master class. Oh, stings him. Look at the I love the work he does with his lead hand. It's like he's kind of cast in a spell over Rak. He pump fakes things up. He's not just parrying down or lead hand fighting, but he's doing all sorts of different motions with that lead hand. Drive him out there, framing. Look at that. Sweeping the in leg, circles off. Speaker 2: I'm just that's just a wow from me. Speaker 1: Nadaka gets a wow from Rich. That is a rare occasion. Stunning the Hall of Famer, Rich Franklin. And there's uh there's not a lot that you haven't seen before, my friend. Speaker 2: You know, his cross is a beautiful thing. Speaker 1: Oh, he lands just as he says it. The writing's on the wall. He sleeps it.