Jonathan Haggerty stops Hiroki Akimoto to retain ONE bantamweight kickboxing title
The English champion won by TKO at ONE Samurai 4 in Tokyo.
England's Jonathan Haggerty stopped Hiroki Akimoto by TKO to keep his ONE bantamweight kickboxing world title at ONE Samurai 4 in Tokyo.
ONE's video shows Haggerty leaping on to the cage and doing a backflip after the stoppage.
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Akimoto had vowed before the fight to be Haggerty's toughest test yet: Hiroki Akimoto vows to be Jonathan Haggerty's toughest test.
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