Banario yields to Jadamba at ONE FC: Honor & Glory

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino combatant Honorio Banario suffered his third-consecutive setback in his professional mixed martial arts (MMA) career as he dropped a rough contest to Jadamba Narantungalag in the undercard of ONE FC: Honor & Glory on Friday, May 30 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

After flaunting an impressive start by standing toe-to-toe and trading clean blows with the 5-foot-7 Mongolian kickboxer, the 24-year-old Wushu practitioner from Manakayan, Benguet lost his steam in the third round, where Jadamaba completely seized the opportunity.

Relying on his vast menu of tenacious striking options, Jadamaba pummeled the former ONE FC featherweight titlist with heavy punches and lashing body-kicks.

Banario tried to fend off his foe’s attack by clinching and looking for a fine opening to drag Jadamaba to the mat with a double-leg takedown.

Midway point of the last round, Jadamaba continued to toy an exhausted Banario with spinning backfists while tattering his opponent with crisp short shots.

Moments before the fight’s final bell sounded, Jadamaba maintained to stand right where Banario thought he had his best chance and scored a huge takedown to seal a unanimous-decision nod from the cageside officials.

With a remarkable performance against Banario, Jadamaba improves his MMA record to 9-3 and heads back into the winning column after bowing down to Koji Ando at Legend FC 11 in April 2013.

On the other hand, Banario extends his losing skid to three fights and drops his win-loss slate to 8-4.

Prior to his meeting with Jadamaba, “The Rock” suffered two excruciating defeats by knockout in the hands of reigning ONE FC featherweight champion Koji Oishi.

Moreover, Banario has never won a bout since his title triumph over Eric Kelly in the main event of ONE FC: Return of Warriors in February 2013.

In other matches, former No.1-ranked Strikeforce fighter Caros Fodor submitted Willy Ni via first-round Kimura lock.

Furthermore, Major Overall knocked out highly-touted Evolve MMA standout Bruno Pucci in their featherweight encounter.

The 5-foot-5 American landed a swift right hand to Pucci’s chin and then finished it off by shutting the lights off at the Brazilian grappling specialist with a soccer kick at the 2:08 mark of the first round.

Meanwhile, the heavyweight scuffle between Alain Ngalani and Chi Lewis Parry concluded in a no contest as Ngalani was unable to continue due to inadvertent groin strike by Parry.

Radeem Rahman did not allow Raymond Tan to spoil his ONE FC return as he stopped the Malaysian 135-pounder with his vicious ground-and-pound in the second round.

Casey Suire opened the “Honor & Glory” event on a quick note as he forced Singaporean bantamweight Stephen Langdown to wave the white flag at 3:19 of the first round with a rear-naked choke, while Nik Harris earned a split-decision triumph over Brad Robinson in a catchweight tussle – Rappler.com