Capoeira is a kind of martial arts that hardly ever feels prefer it has a very useful place in fashionable fight sports activities. However, when it really works, it offers some of the outstanding assembly factors of favor and performance. This final Saturday, on the Cage Warriors 136 undercard, featherweight prospect Manny Akpan confirmed an important instance of simply how cool the Brazilian dance-fight fashion may be in a catchweight battle in opposition to Connor Hitchens.
Akpan began the bout with a pair enjoyable facet kicks and hook kicks out of a side-on stance, and even managed to reverse a clinch right into a implausible bodylock throw. Sadly for him, that shortly resulted in getting swept. He and Hitchens spent a lot of the primary body, from that time on, buying and selling grappling management positions—neither man capable of open up with a lot offense with out letting their opponent sweep or escape. Following a trio of failed spinning backfists late within the spherical, nevertheless, Akpan discovered himself mounted, consuming pictures apparently overwhelmed on the bell.
Momentum firmly on Hitchens’ facet, he hit an influence double early within the second and regarded to have this battle firmly in management. Proper up till the referee stood him up from guard with simply 30 seconds left within the spherical. Simply sufficient time for Akpan to drag off one thing outstanding.
Elsewhere on the cardboard, unbeaten middleweight prospect Christian Leroy Duncan moved his document to 6-0, capturing the CWFC middleweight title within the course of, with a flying knee knockout of champion Djati Melan.
The 26-year-old Vary Academy pupil placed on one hell of a present to seize CWFC gold. Don’t be shocked if his subsequent step is one into the UFC Octagon within the not too distant future.
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