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00:00Brian Reiner
00:03This match is a 3-round match of RIZIN MMA rules, 5 minutes each round.
00:09And the winner of this match is...
00:12Brian Reiner with the final instructions.
00:15A massive crowd ovation.
00:17The champion, Roberto Satoshi Sousa.
00:21Grappler vs Striker.
00:24Satoshi's exquisite sub game against Gustavo's violent brand of striking.
00:303 by 5 for the lightweight championship.
00:32Michael Chiavello.
00:34Damian Brown with you.
00:36Gustavo the underdog at plus 175.
00:40Satoshi Sousa the favorite with the bookmakers at minus 250.
00:46Brown kick.
00:47Oh! Smack bang! He dropped him early!
00:49It's over! It's over!
00:51It is over!
00:53Can you believe it?
00:56Can you believe it?
00:58Can you bloody believe it?
01:01I think it's 21 seconds.
01:04That's crazy.
01:06That's incredible.
01:07I didn't see that coming.
01:09I mean we knew he had power.
01:11He's got 5 knockouts on his record.
01:13But I never seen that coming that early.
01:16But that's when it happens.
01:17Early in the fight the guys aren't warmed up.
01:19The blood's not flowing.
01:21He put that right hand on Gustavo.
01:23Wobbled him into the ropes.
01:25But he wasted no time getting it done.
01:27When you've got the grappling he's got
01:29you can be fearless in your approach to the striking.
01:32Tonight I think you might be right
01:34on the clock to put like 21 seconds
01:36into round number one
01:38of the main event.
01:4035 years old Roberto Sousa defends
01:43his lightweight title.
01:46Insane.
01:49Absolutely insane.
01:55Gustavo can't believe it.
02:00He does not know what hit him.
02:02We'll see it in a moment's time on the replay.
02:06We believe it was 21 seconds.
02:16We said it from the start.
02:18Murderous roll.
02:20Here tonight at Rising 48.
02:26Sakakibara-san
02:28places the belt again
02:30around the waist of Roberto
02:32Satoshi Sousa.
02:37Who can possibly take it from him?
02:41I don't think that Gustavo
02:43even had a chance to get anything off Damien.
02:45No, nothing really.
02:47He threw a feint, got counted.
02:49And that was about all she wrote.
02:51The black belt gets wrapped
02:53back around the waist of Roberto Sousa
02:55who every time walks out
02:57with his heritage
02:59and his heart on the line.
03:01Walks out with his belt, his gene.
03:05Representing Brazil and Japan.
03:07And tonight he gets it done.
03:09I don't know if Gustavo
03:11I'm sure for the next half an hour
03:13or an hour, unfortunately, he's going to be asking
03:15what happened to his corners.
03:17When you get knocked out like that
03:19especially when you get dropped multiple times
03:21you tend to not know what actually happened.
03:23And that's part of the game
03:25that we play.
03:27He'll be super disappointed. That's a long camp
03:29to put in for a title fight
03:31that you worked so hard for
03:33to be over in 21 seconds.
03:35Here we see on the replay
03:37he just throws a feint, steps to the side,
03:39caught in a kick,
03:41left himself open and that was the right hand.
03:45And then the follow up.
03:49Look, I think Derek Miner, sorry,
03:51Brian Miner, he stopped that fight
03:53pretty quickly. I mean, I know that was a drop
03:55and then he followed up
03:57and dropped him again, but straight away
03:59goes for the up kicks. Look, I'm not sure
04:01maybe he could have let it go, but
04:03he was definitely dropped twice
04:05when he was out. In a title fight
04:07we like to say sometimes the stakes are a little
04:09higher, maybe we can take a bit more
04:11risk, but at the end of the day it's the
04:13health and safety of the fighter and he got dropped
04:15twice bad.
04:19Beautiful finish by Roberto Souza
04:21putting everyone
04:23on notice with that kind of power in the hands.
04:25That short
04:27right hand that
04:29dropped Gustavo for the first time.