Pearl City’s Oshiro gets KO victory

March 24, 2008

Big congratulations to Pearl City’s Mark Oshiro, who earned a first round KO victory over Chris Cariaso to open Friday night’s ShoXC card on Showtime.

Oshiro came into the fight with an injured back he hurt during training and was in trouble during the early minutes. Cariaso scored a takedown and went right into the mount position before eventually getting Oshiro’s back. Oshiro took a few shots to the head and a couple of knees to the back of the leg, but was able to block a rear naked choke attempt and eventually worked his way back to his feet. As the fighters turned to separate, Oshiro clocked Cariaso with a clean right hook that put him on the canvas. Oshiro pounced on his fallen opponent to force the referee to stop the fight as Cariaso could not defend himself.

With the win, Oshiro is now 10-1 and is expected to fight on the next Icon card June 14. Maui’s Analu Brash also fought on the same card, but was stopped in the first round by Shane Del Rosario of California. Rosario took advantage of Brash’s inexperience on the ground and pounded out a TKO victory.

Be sure to check out 1500-AM at 9 a.m. Monday morning when I’ll co-host the Fighters Club Radio Show with Icon Sport promoter Patrick Freitas. We’ll talk about MMA and if it really has hit mainstream yet as well as preview this weekend’s HFC event on Maui. We’ll also discuss the EliteXC card on Showtime this Saturday featuring Frank Shamrock against Cung Le and the battle for the EliteXC welterweight title between Jake Shields and Drew Fickett.

For those that remember, Shields won the Rumble on the Rock welterweight tournament at the Blaisdell Arena a couple pf years ago in what has turned out to be a stacked event. The 8-man field included current UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva, former Icon Sport champion Frank Trigg, current WEC champion Carlos Condit and Yushin Okami, who could be Silva’s next opponent in the UFC.

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