Yuya Wakamatsu retained his ONE flyweight Muay Thai world championship at ONE 173, brutally knocking out Joshua Pacio within the night’s co-main occasion.
Taking a web page out of Christian Lee’s handbook, Wakamatsu delivered his personal highlight-reel end in Tokyo, getting his opponent down on the mat earlier than unleashing a sequence of brutal knees that finally put his challenger to sleep simply earlier than the one-minute mark of the second spherical.
Official Outcome: Yuya Wakamatsu def. Joshua Pacio through KO (knees to the top) at 0:54 of Spherical 2.
With the win, Wakamatsu efficiently secures his first protection of the flyweight title and extends his win streak below the ONE banner to 5, together with highlight-reel KOs towards Xie Wei, Adriano Moraes, and now Joshua Pacio.
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