Dream 6: Keita Nakamura vs Adriano Martins

Dream 6: Keita Nakamura vs Adriano Martins
Round 1: After a minute of feeling out, Martins connects with a grazing uppercut and follow-up right that puts K-Taro on his rear, scooting with the Brazilian standing above. The ref stands it up. With both fighters swinging away, Martins lands a winging two-punch combo flush to Nakamura’s face, but soon finds himself taken down with the Japanese fighter posturing in half-guard. Nakamura smothering the mouth of Martins, “disrupting his breathing” as Goldberg would say. K-Taro attempts to posture and pass, but it only allows Martins to close his guard. More smothering, now some right hands from Nakamura appear to be frustrating Martins. The ref stands the fighters and calls for the doctor to look at Nakamura’s left eye, which is bleeding thanks to an upward elbow from Martin. The cut isn’t bad and the fight resumes with 3:00 remaining. Nakamura is finding his range and throwing sharp jabs, which Martins counters by lolling his head back and tossing wild response uppercuts which come nowhere close. It looks as though K-Taro has found his comfort zone and the Krazy Bee product Martins is rapidly accumulating damage as the round concludes.

Round 2: We’re seeing a steady diet of jabs and right straihts from Nakamura, but that’s about all. No combos, single shots only. Martins has no response for K-Taro’s reach and is eating a lot of shots to the head, earning respite only when he clinches and presses Nakamura into the corner, completely halting the action. More and more jabs from Nakamura, who, with :40 left, is simply stalking Martins around the ring and moving out of the way when the Yamamoto protgee attempts to mount any sort of offense. The round ends in a clinch. BloodyElbow.com scores the round for Keita Nakamura.

Keita Nakamura def. Adriano Martins via Decision (Split)