A five-fight knockout spree got here to an abrupt halt earlier this yr, and the Japanese star desires that chapter closed for good.
Hyu faces ONE Championship newcomer Hyuma Hitachi in a flyweight kickboxing matchup at ONE SAMURAI 3, touching down at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday, September 12. The 23-year-old opened his ONE Championship run with 5 straight wins, 4 by knockout over Leandro Miranda, Zakaria El Jamari, Jordan Estupinan, and Suablack Tor Pran49, earlier than countryman Taiki Naito handed him his first skilled loss in a three-round battle at ONE SAMURAI 1.
Hitachi enters his personal promotional debut with a popularity constructed on relentless boxing combos, a self-discipline he added particularly to sharpen his kickboxing background. A knockout of Yuki Kasahara stands because the clearest instance of what that mixture produces in opposition to reside competitors.
Hyu faces contrasting types puzzle
Hyu’s improvisational, angle-based strategy units up a real conflict of philosophies in opposition to a fighter who prefers closing distance instantly and imposing his fingers from the opening change.
The Yokohama Buntai crowd will get a direct reply to how Hyu responds to adversity for the primary time in his profession, along with his beforehand unblemished ONE document now carrying an asterisk he’s desperate to erase.
The bout joins a stacked ONE SAMURAI 3 card that additionally options reigning ONE Atomweight Muay Thai World Champion Nadaka making his kickboxing debut, together with a flyweight Muay Thai showdown between Shimon Yoshinari and Suablack Tor Pran49, giving Yokohama a full evening of high-level Japanese and worldwide expertise.
Neither man has confronted the opposite earlier than, leaving each camps to organize largely off popularity and obtainable footage reasonably than any shared historical past to lean on heading into their September 12 assembly.
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