Just rewatched this fight today, some of the comments are a good laugh. Yamamoto looked just as fresh in the last round as he did in the first he moved forward the entire fight and had some beautiful combinations, good sweeps and solid elbows that left Harrison moving backwards looking tired and bloody and like he was just trying to keep Yamamoto off of him and not fighting to win. Yamamoto used all 8 weapons was stronger, fresher, moved forward and dominated the fight.
I like both fighters but I have to say that I think that Yamato won. Harrison had some damaging and precise attacks but Yamato was always going forward, always getting ahead and aggressive. I'm not a judge so my opinion is utterly subjective.
Yeah, getting walked down while getting punched, kicked, and sweeped down more often won't give Harrison any points. 1-3 was close. Last 2 rounds Yamato sure took those 2 decisively.
+Lukáš Kamenický yeah, i agree, Yamato showed he was a far more resourceful fighter and he was unrelenting and in control during the whole fight, the decision was an unfair one
Trained with Liam a few times, great guy, really knows his shit!! It was a good fight but I had Liam ahead by a fair bit. This is Muay Thai not k1. The elbows were pretty even, but the body kicks made the difference. Liam probably stopped with the low kicks so he could concentrate on scoring points. Leg kicks are good for slowing people down but don't score a great deal. Anyway, cheers for the video.
Yeah I mean it’s true that Muay Thai is scored differently and I don’t know how to judges scored who had more elbows knees and body kicks but either way tetsuya was robbed. I love them both but moving backwards in Muay Thai is usually a negative thing because you look less dominant. Secondly regardless of the true score of elbows Liam got cut open a lot and when you get cut by an elbow and your opponent is not cut by yours. It’s another thing to consider
Tetsuya yamato le dio una cátedra a liam harrison es increíble el nivel de ambos pero tetsuya demostró mas nivel fue superior, fue una lastima que le robaran la pelea mala decisión de los jueces.
Sounds like a lot of K1 fans are commenting and don't understand Thai Boxing scoring. For the first 3 rounds Yamato just marched forward punching the air/Liam's gloves and flicking little leg kicks... that doesn't win you fights and I am not even a Liam follower (I do respect him though). I think this is one of those cases where one fighter did some smoke and mirrors (being aggressive, throwing strikes etc) but really wasn't doing anything EFFECTIVE or damaging. Liam won the fight by fighting well of his back foot, clinch throws, tons of body kicks and utilizing his left hook. 3-2 Harrison, maybe even 4-1 Harrison.
Completely Yamato had won. It is most terrible decision ever seen in my kickboxing life. Judge member of Yokkao is crazy. Liam Harrison is not wrong.But Yokkao staff should be opened the score of this match. Otherwise Japanese people will boycott of Yokkao products.Yokkao has spoiled the sacred fight by good fighters.
If this was a k1 fight then yamato won hands down. But it's full MT rule so I think it is actually pretty even. Hands don't score as much in MT. Liam landed more elbows which score big. Also Yamato tried to take liam down twice after catching kicks and Liam didn't go down, this impressed the judges as well in MT. Plus Liam landed more body kicks.
watch the fight again. ur arguement about k1 is stupid becuase all liam landed was heavy low kicks. yamato was more agressive,landed more elbows, low kicks, punches and sweeps.
BEST FIGHTER EVER TO COME OUT OF THE U.K.? Good fighter yeah, but the BEST? Has the referee forgotten Ronnie Green, Pele Nathan, Peter Crooke, Winston Walker, etc, etc, etc.?
Those of you who say Yamato won the fight: you don't know how Muay Thai is scored. Perhaps you don't understand the art in general. I am a Muay Thai referee, certified in Thailand. Only hard, precise technique is scored. Yamato was "peppering" and "shoeshining" too much, which DOES NOT score in Muay Thai. You can "shoeshine" your opponent for 5 round but if he delivers a few hard leg kicks and punches, you lost the fight, no matter how many light strikes you have landed. This is the beauty of Muay Thai. Hard, precise technique scores exclusively, you can't win by landing a thousand light punches and kicks like in wester boxing and kickboxing. Let me rephrase this for all of you: let's say me and you we have a fight. You land 30 punches and 20 kicks in a round, all light, peppering and the sheer amount of it makes my nose bleed. I landed 5 hard leg kicks and 5 hard punches, made your leg blue. I won the round under real professional Muay Thai rules. Period.
LOL! I mean lol if you r a referee and writing such a shit. Everybody knows that a Muay Thai is about hard kicks and punches. BUT in this fight Yamato crushed Harrison in one way. Yamato landed a hundred light strikes, but he made a hard hits as well, not less than Harrison. Liam even could't stand on his feet at the 5th round. In any kind of rules Yamato was robbed here.
Crappy commentary who should refrain himself from showing his preference. Shame on Harrison who should show his guilt when the judges come with this result.My ultimate respect to Yamato.
Liam won the fight! His shots were landing clean, Yamamato looked like he was the busier to the untrained eye, but most of his shots fell short or were blocked. Liam picked him off as a counter fighter. Couldn't understand why he stopped kicking his opponent's left leg though, could only presume he had an injury.
I love what you guys are doing and support you, but you seriously suck at uploading these fights in a timely manner. Should seriously consider streaming them somewhere in the future for upcoming events.
This Muay Thai people, Harrison Clearly won the fight landing body kicks throughout the fight. Yamato was a strong boxer but barely kicked to the body which ultimately lost him the fight
I read a lot of these comments before watching the fight, and was expecting something MUCH different. For all of you who think Yamato won - I assume you're not very familiar with muay Thai. Harrison won the bout very clearly. In muay Thai punches score very little, ESPECIALLY when they're thrown as if you're playing tag, with no power. Similarly leg kicks score very little, especially the way Yamato threw them, with ZERO power - just foot slapping the leg. It was an alright fight and a clearly correct decision. Can we focus on the real issue though, of the announcers calling the kid "Yamoto" the whole time??
@@y_magaming9798 most of Yamato's punches and kicks would not be considered 'hard' in the Muay Thai sense. Ben White is absolutely correct in what he says... most people commenting simply do not understand Muay Thai at all.
@@notmyname3681 I do not agree with you. in muay thai a hard strike is not a strike that was thrown hard, but a strike that affects the opponent whether by breaking his posture or composure, displacing his balance, putting him off his game etc. so I would argue that tetsuya landed the harder strikes because of that punch and high kick that stunned Liam and forced him to shell up and back off, no punches from Liam had any comparable effect on tetsuya and it didn't seem like any kicks from Liam were affecting tetsuya in any way.
@@notmyname3681 and in term of the narrative of the whole performance, they started the fight exchanging strikes in the ring Liam couldn't hurt or slow down tetsuya despite every hard leg kick and punches he threw, he then started backing up and pretty much the rest of the fight is tetsuya walking down Harrison through every he had, gradually tiring and giving absolutely no fuck for liam's power. the fight ended with a praticaly fresh tetsuya sweeping and elbowing a tired liam harrison with a uncertain composure. they both swept each other, but tetsuya swept him more et with style, some of liam's sweeps were low scoring and gave a sense of urgency and need for a break in thé action by liam. they both landed some good elbows but tetsuya landed them with more effect liam punches did nothing to tetsuya and he walked through every kick, stunned liam with a punch and a high kick and often broke his composure. gosh even the ultra biaised commentators were worried for liam and insisted that he " needed to score " by the end of the fifth to round. tetsuya won this fight by displaying tactical dominance (your power is not enough and you are going to tire yourself out throwing innefective bombs at me, I'll grind you then), control (just look a the end of the fifth ) and composure (he look the same all throughout the bout, unfazed and unimpressed by liam arsenal and power) walking down liam whilst tagging him
NAH NAH NAH! Yamato played it safe with the pitter pat striking and running. This is not point fighting TKD. Full contact organizations do not want fighters like that. If you are not going for a knock out you better at least be going for a beat down. Organizations are not going to allow you to make them lose fans with that BS. Plain and simple. You rob the fans of a real fight when you fight like this.
SO FREAKIN BIASED. Don't take me wrong, i have nothing against harrison but how in the kitten's pink shiet did he just win a fight where he got ran down, thrown to the ground and incapacitated to throw any strikes in the last round? Bow to the british i guess..
why cant people score muay thai harrison won the fight not by a mile but he used scoring techniques throughout the fight its not k1 its not mma this is muay thai totally different scoring system. you cant walk foward use boxng throw a few elbows and expect to win harrison was smart with the leg kicks at first then switched t up to scoring well with the body kicks, sweeps also scored well and landed a few elbows, would actually be cool to see the statistics
If fights were scored based on precision, I would've won my first fight haha. Aggression is a part of scoring, as well, and Yamato was definitely the aggressor throughout the fight. For the thai techniques that Liam landed, Yamato landed just as many. The commentators are incredibly biased in favor of Liam Harrison every time he fights, and maybe that's ubiquitous throughout the promotion. Idk, you gotta admit that Yokkao seems kinda shady sometimes.
@@SonOfSovjet Punches are scored very low in Muay Thai. It is an accepted fact that a Muay Mat probably needs to knock out his opponent or he will loose on points. Yamato relied on punching here but faield to get even a knockdown, and lost on points to the higher scoring techniques of Harrison.
