Demetrious Johnson & Eddie Alvarez win at ONE: Dawn of Heroes

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Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez were set for their second ONE Championship fight on Aug. 2 at ONE: Dawn of Heroes. There, the two former UFC champions were looking to advance to the finals of their respective Grand Prix.

“Mighty Mouse”

Johnson, who won his promotional debut against Yuya Wakamatsu, was now taking on Tatsumitsu Wada. Early on it was Wada who surprisingly was having success as he took Johnson’s back and was looking to sink in a rear-naked choke. He was also landing ground and pound, yet “Mighty Mouse” survived the scare and the first round ended.

In the second round, it was all Johnson who dominated the round as he took Wada down early on with a nice double leg. But, he couldn’t pass his opponent’s guard and instead had to do most of his work in the guard, where he didn’t land anything significant, but it was a big bounce-back round for him. The third and final round saw much of the same as the second, as the former UFC flyweight champion, took Wada down and immediately had success. He started to land heavy ground and pound and cut Wada which resulted in the cut having to be checked.

When the final bell rang, the judges were unanimous in giving Demetrious Johnson the win. He will now take on Danny Kingad in the flyweight Grand Prix final.

“The Underground King”

Eddie Alvarez was back in the lightweight Grand Prix even though he suffered a shocking first-round knock out loss to Timofey Nastyukhin. Yet, injuries resulted in “The Underground King” back in the tournament against former champion, Eduard Folayang.

Early on, it was Folayang who had the success and it looked like Alvarez was going to be TKO’d again. The former ONE champion was piecing up Alvarez and landing at will. He was landing everything with ease and kept moving forward which resulted in Alvarez having to curl up and defend the head along the ropes.

Then, Folayang dropped Alvarez with a leg kick and jumped on top of him, landing heavy ground and pound. The ref was inching closer to stop the fight as Folayang kept on landing shots, but Alvarez was doing a good job of moving and looking to defend. Eddie then got ahold of Folayang’s arm which resulted in him reversing the position. There, after some ground and pound of his own, he got ahold of Folayang’s back and submitted him by rear-naked choke in the first round.

It was a tremendous fight and leaves Eddie Alvarez to advance to the Finals where he will take on Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev later this year.

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The full results of ONE: Dawn of Heroes

Martin Nguyen def. Koyomi Matsushima via TKO in round 2, (4:40) – ONE Featherweight World Title

Rodtang Jitmuangnon def. Jonathan Haggerty via decision – ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Title

Eddie Alvarez def. Eduard Folayang via submission in round 1, (2:16) – ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix

Demetrious Johnson def. Tatsumitsu Wada via unanimous decision – ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix

Danny Kingad def. Reece McLaren via split decision – ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Semi-final

Rodlek PK.Saenchaimuaythaigym def. Andrew Miller via KO in round 3, (0:49) – ONE Super Series Muay Thai

Yuya Wakamatsu def. Geje Eustaquio via KO in round 1, (1:59) – ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix Reserve

Dae Sung Park def. Honorio Banario via unanimous decision

Daichi Takenaka def. Leandro Issa via TKO in round 3, (1:39)

James Nakashima def. Yushin Okami via unanimous decision

Xie Bin def. Edward Kelly via technical decision

Miao Li Tao def. Pongsiri Mitsatit via unanimous decision

Ayaka Miura def. Samara Santos via submission in round 2, (0:39)

Muhammad Aiman def. Sunoto via unanimous decision

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