Motamed vs Yoshino

Who won Motamed vs Yoshino?

Ali Motamed beat Hikaru Yoshino by split decision in their 3 round contest during the main card of ONE Warrior Series 9, on Wednesday 4th December 2019 in Singapore.

The scorecards were announced in favor of the winner Ali Motamed.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 3 rounds in the Bantamweight division, which meant the weight limit was 135 pounds (9.6 stone or 61.2 KG).

Motamed vs Yoshino stats

Ali Motamed stepped into the octagon with a record of 6 wins, 4 losses and 0 draws, 2 of those wins coming by the way of knock out and 2 by submission.

Hikaru Yoshino made his way to the cage with a record of 8 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws, 1 of those win coming by knock out and 2 by submission.

Ali Motamed's One Championship record stood at 3-3-0, while Hikaru Yoshino's came in at 1-1-0.

The stats suggested Motamed had an advantage in power over Yoshino, with a 33% knock out percentage over Yoshino's 13%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Motamed had a slight advantage over Yoshino, with a 33% submission rate over Yoshino's 25%.

Ali Motamed was the older man by 34 years, at 34 years old.

Motamed had a height advantage of 2 inches over Yoshino.

Motamed's experience as a professional fighter was relatively equal to Yoshino's, having had 1 more fights, and made his debut in 2016, 4 months later than Yoshino, whose first professional fight was in 2015. He had fought 1 less professional rounds, 24 to Yoshino's 25.

Motamed vs Yoshino form

Ali Motamed had beaten 2 of his last 5 opponents.

In his last fight before this contest, he had lost to Rui Chen at ONE Championship – Big Bang 2 on 11th December 2020 by knockout in the 1st round at Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore.

Previous to that, he had won against Hikaru Yoshino at ONE Warrior Series 9 on 4th December 2019 by split decision in their 3 round contest.

Going into that contest, he had beaten Zechariah Lange at ONE Warrior Series 7 on 6th August 2019 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest.

Before that, he had been beaten by Shinechagtga Zoltsetseg at ONE Warrior Series 4 on 28th February 2019 by knockout in the 2nd round.

He had been defeated by Mark Abelardo at ONE Warrior Series 2 on 19th July 2018 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Zepp@Big Box.

Activity check

Motamed's last 5 fights had come over a period of 6 years, 8 months and 11 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year, 4 months and 4 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 12 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 2.4 rounds on average.

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