Japanese-French Bellator middleweight Hisaki Kato has never seen a decision or a submission in nine fights. His specialty is striking and is 7-2 with all finishes coming by way of strikes.
Kato is a southpaw, which switches things up. He has a karate background, which switches things up. And sometimes mid fight, he goes nuts. That switches things up too.
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“>@HisakiAlive has never seen a decision. Let these 34 seconds of madness show you why. #Bellator170pic.twitter.com/FpgcCWUVII
— Bellator MMA (@BellatorMMA)
.@HisakiAlive has never seen a decision. Let these 34 seconds of madness show you why. #Bellator170pic.twitter.com/FpgcCWUVII
— BellatorMMA (@BellatorMMA) January 3, 2017
“>January 3, 2017
On Saturday at Bellator 170 Kato fights 1st degree BJJ black belt Ralek Gracie and has a simple prediction for the fight.
It’s easy to understand, said Kato to Scott Harris for Bleacher Report. It’s a striker versus grappler matchup. I’m expecting him to try to put me down, and he expects me to strike him out.
I have nothing to hide. My record is in knockouts, so it’s evident that we’re going to try to do what we’re good at. This is MMA, so I’m doing a lot of grappling and jiu-jitsu. But I enjoy more to strike. … I’d be lying if I said I’m better on the ground.
I’m a natural southpaw, so my left straight I’m confident in. I would say I’m really effective and really unorthodox because I’m a southpaw and become of karate background. I think I have a different timing and different movements.
“I have a lot of experience in karate fighting a lot of Russian and Ukrainian fighters, and they hit hard. I know what it means to be hit.
It’s either going to be a boring fight on the ground, or it’s going to be on the feet striking and I will knock him out.”
