UFC: Fight Night Japan matches recap and analysis

Hall vs Mousasi: the first round has been controlled by Mousasi thanks to his grappling skills especially on the ground where the match ended after some static phases around the cage, on the ground Hall tried a chimera lock but he hasn't been able to close it due to the miss body control on his rival. At the beginning of the second round Mousasi has been overconfident and didn't paid enough attention to the striking skills of his rival and he paid it when the Jamaican fighter let fly a spinning back kick that cam fro hi karate back ground right to the head of his rival who got stunned and received another fly knee that threw him in the ground and left him undefended to the ground and pound that gave the win to the Jamaican fighter.

Nelson vs Barnett: the first round has been a static one fought for the most part on the ground where Nelson controlled it with his brasilian Jujitsu skills, since that the fighter stood up and the result has been a slow exchange of hard hits between the fighters, when everyone was thinking that the match would end very soon it ended in the 5th round leaving the judges the decision of who was the winner, in the late round Nelson's cardio left him in the position to can just defend himself from the hit of his rival and even if he has been touch hard by some punches and elbow hits right into the jaw but he didn't give up and resisted for all the rounds. The judges gave the win to Barnett by unanimous decision due to his dominance in the late rounds.