Now we know👊🏼

🔥🔥🔥 someone who gets it

And when they finally fight, Hirata gets a yellow card for inactivity. I doubt she wanted to fight Ham.

pretty big value gap, imo this match had nothing to offer, one-sided

Hirata missed weight three times in her short career at One. She "got away" with it twice before because her earlier opponents agreed on Catchweight. When Hirata didn't make weight for the first fight with Ham, Hirata wasn't apologetic at all about missing weight. It should be an embarrassment for a fighter to miss weight in one fight but 3??? Ham had to make a really tough decision to cancel the fight to show Hirata what she was doing was super unprofessional. There is video of Ham crying after cancelling the fight with Hirata because like all fighters, she trained for months for that fight and had to go thru hell to make weight.

Her main issue is she doesn't have much head movement. She just eats the punches, and that's not going to cut it against more elite opponents.

@@JumboJuneaubruh she’s the elite fighter. She’s one of the most experienced women MMA fighters in the world and her resume speaks for itself

@@jun8569 Elire my Azz. She was only doing two things: running around and hugging. No punches, no kicking, and yes, Zero head movement. See how many punches she has taken from Hirata, and why she got the yellow card. Shud have just join the BJJ category and stay there. There's no 'mixed' martial arts to begin with.

@@dantlanz9239 Hirata received the yellow card and was being hit by punches. I think you have the two fighters confused.

@@frekibodgaedir4893 For sure not savage. She is an older, experienced, careful fighter with strong defensive skills looking for the opponent's mistakes. If she can pick and nibble her way to victory, she will do it. The upcoming fight with Stamp will be a real contrast in styles.

she was bored 😭 you didn’t see it in her face when her legs were tied up during round 2? pure irritation

@@saraiminott7095True. Mostly because she wanted a good fight and this was not Itsuki at her best. What Itsuki should've been doing was looking to stay moving forward. If they rematch in MMA then the corner needs to tell Itsuki to adjust and go be the aggressor and really look for her own offense and look to get her into the cage and her corner needs to tell Itsuki to go after throws, that's her strong suit with her judo and wrestling background and that's what she wasn't using enough.

That makes sense, and she can outbox Hirata in the open pretty easily

Hahaha a big fan ahahah. Only a fan in good times hahaah

@@RH-fj5dl looool I was a fan of her when I was a casual, basically didn't really watch many of her fights, just the highlights and her socials, but as I got deeper into ONE FC and watching more of her fights I was just disappointed, plus her lack of professionalism with missing weight made me lose alot of respect for her.

She will return, as the stronger warrior, Itsuki has high potential.

@@ParanoidSYN I think so too. Her hype train has died down but skill wise I think for her she has a lot of room for improvement. I think she needs to work on her striking more than anything. As of now, she is just a predictable judo brawler

Her latest posts on IG that are about MMA shows she's now training at a Muay Thai gym in Japan

I agree 100% Hirata . I like her spirit but she has no stand up game ! When you watch her fights they all have the same theme, she tries ( and usually fails ) to get the take down until her opponent gets tired or makes a mistake , then Hirata burns a ton of energy holding them down to secure a submission or get a decision instead of softening them up with strikes. It makes it very easy to come up with a game plan “ sprawl and strike” which is what the Korean did. It reminds me of what happened to jiu jitsukas when world class wrestlers like dan Henderson and Kevin randleman became great punchers. Until Hirata expands her toolkit ( or capsule corp. kit) she’s only android 18 on the ground, but on the feet .? She’s more like bulma 😜

@@Jedi_Mind_ She isnt even that good on the ground. She relied in her career the Judo throw to get people to the ground. In modern MMA, it is not recommended since you give up your back if the opponent has any decent grappling (which 90% of women MMA fighter does not). It is used more as a surprise factor but she became dependent on it and the opponent she lost to previously exploited this. Which is why she has stop going for it but without it, she is absolute garbage as seen in this fight. Since she has zero wrestling and zero striking. If you watch her past 3 fights, he has attempted less then 3 judo throw. While previously, all her wins was due to judo throws.

​@@NewbtuberI agree 100% My advice to Itsuki Hirata would be to learn wrestling and improve her stand up and take down skills. Otherwise, give up the fight game.

I know right? I'd rather they go back to the soft pornography in the thumbnails.

I mean it kinda was, Ham was pissed with Hirata about missing weight every 5 seconds

​@@JoeyCentralsame tbf

@@thelaundryman9287 she wasn't too "pissed" to be professional during or after the fight....

@@homeoftek5844 exactly. Because she is a professional, which is my point and the point she made out. Ham is clearly the more stoic and serious athlete of the two. I follow both on social media, you can guess which one is posting tiktok dances and social outings more and which one posts the inside of a gym more. No disrespect to either fighter but Ham had a point lol.

Itsuki missed weight a couple times and Ham is angry and cancelled the match.

Hirata missed weight three times in her short career at One. She "got away" with it twice before because her earlier opponents agreed on Catchweight. When Hirata didn't make weight for the first fight with Ham, Hirata wasn't apologetic at all about missing weight. It should be an embarrassment for a fighter to miss weight in one fight but 3??? Ham had to make a really tough decision to cancel the fight to show Hirata what she was doing was super unprofessional. There is video of Ham crying after cancelling the fight with Hirata because like all fighters, she trained for months for that fight and had to go thru hell to make weight. Wouldn't you be pissed if you worked your tail off to make weight and your opponent feels she is privileged enough to not cut weight. When Hirata missed weight during her first weigh-in attempt, she supposedly didn't make any effort to cut any more weight for her second try. There was definitely some bad blood at least from the Ham side before the second fight.

Bro it clearly says on Hams vest that she's 'Mad'. 😡

@@TheSwayzeTrain Yep.....Definitely furious.....as she's smiling. 👍👍

Hirata missed weight three times in her short career at One. She "got away" with it twice before because her earlier opponents agreed on Catchweight. When Hirata didn't make weight for the first fight with Ham, Hirata wasn't apologetic at all about missing weight. It should be an embarrassment for a fighter to miss weight in one fight but 3??? Ham had to make a really tough decision to cancel the fight to show Hirata what she was doing was super unprofessional. There is video of Ham crying after cancelling the fight with Hirata because like all fighters, she trained for months for that fight and had to go thru hell to make weight. Wouldn't you be pissed if you worked your tail off to make weight and your opponent feels she is privileged enough to not cut weight. When Hirata missed weight during her first weigh-in attempt, she supposedly didn't make any effort to cut any more weight for her second try. There was definitely some bad blood at least from the Ham side before the second fight.

"Hugging and giggling" is because Hirata made weight for her second fight. Once Hirata became a "Professional", Ham's grudge was gone. But before Hirata made weight, that's a different story.

@@AhPhoey Ham was pissed off for real when Hirata missed weight (again). I never seen her that pissed off before. Ham was bad mouthing Hirata.

the refs aren't employed by promotions

Stop lying to yourself

@@The_World_Champion. I am Korean.. They look fine to me. Why dont you take your advice and go have a good time with your boyfriend.

That’s what I’m syaing

Prior to this weigh in and hydration test, ham was pissed with Itsuki because she kept missing weight for previous fights and in the run up to their fight, ham called itsuki unprofessional and refused a catchweight bout. And waited for a different date to fight, that hug was more like "fs, finally you did it, I can beat you up now" lol 😂.

Hirata missed weight three times in her short career at One. She "got away" with it twice before because her earlier opponents agreed on Catchweight. When Hirata didn't make weight for the first fight with Ham, Hirata wasn't apologetic at all about missing weight. It should be an embarrassment for a fighter to miss weight in one fight but 3??? Ham had to make a really tough decision to cancel the fight to show Hirata what she was doing was super unprofessional. There is video of Ham crying after cancelling the fight with Hirata because like all fighters, she trained for months for that fight and had to go thru hell to make weight. Wouldn't you be pissed if you worked your tail off to make weight and your opponent feels she is privileged enough to not cut weight. When Hirata missed weight during her first weigh-in attempt, she supposedly didn't make any effort to cut any more weight for her second try. There was definitely some bad blood at least from the Ham side before the second fight.

@@9MoonRyong9 this is the best take I've heard on the situation, but damn I never knew Ham even cried. But good on her though. It was about time someone refused a catchweight with Hirata.

@@thelaundryman9287 As she was crying she was apologizing too. She felt guilty for cancelling the fight even though it is her given choice. It really is a catch-22 where you really don't want to waste the opportunity to fight when you worked so hard at it for months but when your opponent's attitude is like Hirata's, there was no real other options for Ham. Of course, most people won't know the details and think Ham could be dodging. Ham was more nervous about Hirata's weight than her own for the second fight...lol.

Also noticed Ham did not take advantage of Knees or upper cut when Hirata shot in. Also, hardly any leg kicks or rounds to the body!! Ham had the advantage in all of that and did not utilize it.

Facts.

i wanna be in her guard so bad....lol

constantly backing up not fighting

Inactivity

yes

Hard to be exciting when you're being smashed. I've never seen Ham before, but her overall game is solid. Hirata looked desperate.

Not against Ham bro, Itsuki hasn't got hands like that, she's mostly a great judo fighter with good complimentary jiu jitsu, great for her ground n pound strategy, but predictable. She ain't got much outside of an overhand right in standup. On the other hand, Ham is an elite level kickboxer with impressive takedown defence.

Lmao

She's screwed either way. Her stand up is pretty much non-existent, and her first loss against Jihin Radzuan pretty much showed where her level is in terms of wrestling/grappling.

I disagree. This kind of Hirata was attacking the weapons checking her opponents hands and feet while taking some punches to the back of the head I think the other fighter could have shown better control. There are a lot of fighters that need to attack the weapons like they were trained to do.

That’s funny @@zanebentonii3209 , because even itsuki herself would disagree with you, in her interviews ( Japanese language ) she AND her Coaches ( both u.s. and japan) concur, “She needs to improve her striking amongst other things” and if you listen to the pre-fight interviews with her opponents where the journalist asks her opponent “what’s your game plan “ it’s usually some version of “ .... i’m going to stand in strike with her because that’s her weakness and let her burn energy trying to take me down at the end of the round and the bell will save me from the submission” You mentioned her checking punches and kicks, but checking strikes is what we call a NECESSARY but not SUFFICIENT condition for being a top level fighter. The name of the game is to make your opponent MISS then COUNTERSTRIKE them, not absorb punishment then get frustrated and try to take them down . checking strikes is an inferior strategy to that because you’re still absorbing punishment and that could count as points on the judges score cards. But itsuki does none of that because she spends the whole fight chasing grabbing and trying to pull her opponent to the ground, Burning energy trying to get a submission on opponent that hasn’t been softened up with strikes and then .........the bell rings 😜🤪😜 So android 18 needs to get an upgrade from capsule corporations 😂

What's even more funny is that your using this answer and you know I did not use the word perfect in any of part of my comment. SHe is a better fighter than most when she keeps this technique is her arsenal.

​@@zanebentonii3209 Your responses are a textbook example of a non sequitur. I don’t know if you’re intentionally trying to obscure the issue or if it’s really that difficult for you to grasp. I couldn’t help but notice that you’ve dodged virtually every point that I brought up so I’ll restate them for you * itsuki said her striking needs improvement * itsuki’s Japanese and American coaches said her striking needs improvement * itsuki’s opponents said her striking needs improvement * The two commentators at oneFC said itsuki’s striking needs improvement Now I’m not sure if I can make it any simpler than that , now you can disagree all you want, and you can “Think“ she’s the better fighter all you want. But the statistics don’t lie and you’re going to have to make valid arguments and refute the points that I have just stated above. Here I’ll help you out buddy, The next time you respond let your arguments start out like this... * itsuki doesn’t need to improve her striking because........... Unless you can put a valid argument to complete that line of thought it’s really pointless to argue the point, and you’re not responding to any point that I’ve made. Maybe you’re confusing this comment thread with something else that you’ve heard sign some other video ...???? Now that would be even funnier than both of your responses put together 😂🤣 And what the hell is your comment about “perfect“ Where are you getting that from ?? 😂🤣🤣

@@Jedi_Mind_ You still didn't say anything about the referee letting one the fighters get hit on the back of the head and making the call.

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Right they won't be able to crack top 15 there Gillian Robertson is the new gatekeeper now

As evident from Stamp's title shot attempt, no one in ONE's womens roster is close to Lee's level, not in Atomweight where Lee is the current champ, and probably not even in Strawweight, where the champ Xiong Jing Nan is the last person to beat Angela Lee.

Russia 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 power😊

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