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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Riki Fukuda returned to action in Japan on Saturday night for the first time since suffering serious injuries in a car accident in 2011, and he put forth a very impressive effort to take a unanimous decision over Steve Cantwell at UFC 144.
Fukuda's striking was far superior throughout the fight, and as it wore on and Cantwell began tiring, Fukuda turned up the volume of his output and teed off on Cantwell for several minutes. Cantwell covered up and defended as best he could, but he wasn't able to do much of his own throughout the fight.
The third round saw Fukuda turn it up even further and leave no doubt that it was his fight. He mixed up strikes to the body and head, and put forth flurry after flurry on Cantwell against the cage. The win was his first in the UFC after a poor judges decision loss to Nick Ring, while Cantwell's time in the UFC is all but officially over with his fifth straight loss.
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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