Hifumi abe winner of all japan judo championship in world championship #JUDO

I didn't see whether it was Gombas that was going to be fighting him. Here he is, the man of the moment, Ifumi Abe. Fighting Manzi for Italy. Showed some really good foot sweeps in the first round. Look at that, good as she was to start with. Yeah, you want to see foot sweeps? I can do that as well. Great. Exactly. I mean, that's the beauty of it, isn't it? It's like if you think of the two boxers and they're just measuring up to each other with their hands. First of all, with the jab. It's the readjustment from Abe that is so impressive. He just makes readjustments and every time throwing from different angles. Gold patch on the back there, indicating that he is the Olympic champion. Yeah, but especially that right. Also the gari, but from the sleeves and things like that. Getting in with the elbow, but all the time with the right leg. So explosive. But Manzi, he has nothing to lose here, really. He's fighting the best in the category, without a doubt. And look at that. Change of direction there. Uchimata into Ko-uchi gari. Good seiyu nagi there from Manzi. I wonder if that will be an additive for Abe in his later years as a champion. The Newaza and they'll add things to his repertoire there. Yeah, but if you throw everybody for it on Neil, then you don't need Newaza. You want to do it, but then the fight is over again. Because most of the time, when he scores... It's speed. Yeah, it's speed. I said this morning, I think that he'll win through, but I just think he'll have to work for it. And we saw that yesterday, didn't we? It was not an easy time. No, you can see for him it's easier to fight a right-handed player than a left-handed player. Just that left-handed player, you could see. Ah, but here's the shoulder throw. Waza-ari for that, he's going to get a waza-ari for that. Well, you want to see some Newaza here, it is Neil. Yeah, there it is. I think he heard me and he thought, well, yeah, okay. He's out, he's out. He just manages to come out at seven seconds, so he'll get a yuko for it as well. So, beautiful seotoshi there. Look at the readjustment and readjustment. And he goes again, and he pushes off the back leg there, and he controls it all the way over. Brilliant. That's what impresses me. Yeah, no escape. Doesn't work at first, but then he keeps popping the hip across. But it's the hands as well that work so well. You see that it's more difficult for him to launch that attack, because he needs that right leg from his opponent. But now, with the waza-ari and the yuko on the board, Mansi has to open up a bit more, just go for it all or nothing. I don't think he's finished yet, Abe. I think he'll go for another one. He only knows how to attack. That's the worst thing. If you're a waza-ari and you go down and you get a penalty for non-attacking, it's not because you don't want to. No, it's because you just simply can't. Right? It is. And I still think he's just wasted a few seconds now. I think this has been a good warm-up for Abe. He's performed well, his techniques have been good. And we have to praise Mansi for lasting the contest. Yes, lasting the contest, but also doing really his best and making a good fight as well. Mansi won his first fight also with really good judo, gave everything. But up against Saa from Finland. And Saa, of course, already won a medal at the Worlds and showed us some really good ne-waza. That's something we don't see so often with Abe. Well, we saw this fight where he threw somebody for waza-ari and then straight into the hold-down also for a score. Oh, God. He was right in there, wasn't he there? Saa, just blocking out. Did his homework. Yes, he's done his homework, but he'll need to... Oh, look at that. But he did his homework. But he couldn't avoid that, could he? Sori Sorikomi Goshi, and he just came off there, didn't he? Time for the... And total career has he ever suffered back-to-back losses. And it wasn't even in the same competition. He lost in the final of the Grand Slam in Osaka. To Maruyama. And then in the first round of the Paris Grand Slam, he lost. So that was two losses. Only once has it happened in his career. I don't think it's going to happen, but you never know. Judo is a funny one, and so far this World Championships has sent up some really big surprises. He didn't like that, did he? Not the power there of the Cuban. As soon as he has the sleeve there, he's almost jacked and ready to go. And Denis Van der Gies was saying earlier, he said he is one of the Japanese. Sometimes, because of their beautiful technique, they lack in power. But the Abe's and the Ono's don't lack in power. They have the power. Sesta looking on here. She's just won her fifth world title. He had the sleeve, and he didn't do anything with it. And they both got it. What a contrast to how it was at the Olympics. She had to watch her brother win his second Olympic title. But ask me if I'm impressed with the way he's handled things. He's fighting him hard. And what can you say? That's the only way to fight him, actually, from Polanko. And so far, doing well to avoid those massive... This is the situation now. Doing well at the moment, Polanko avoiding. Now then, and that was as close. The readjustment that he made there almost paid dividends. We saw this a little bit earlier in the day, didn't we? And he managed to just rotate them around that hip. Oh, Osanagiri, Makikomi. And not quite there, onto the arm. He was on the arm then as well. Had to spin out that way as well to avoid the arm lock. He did. It was so sharp that it was the second attack, actually. Because he showed him one way and then he went another. That was very, very quick. He kind of went, oh, that's on. He did. He's had the arm lock there. Has to just feel that balance, Abe. He needs to readjust and he's finding it very awkward. And I explained about somebody like Polanko. Polanko is like that loose wire that's just zapping around there. You know, if you don't hit it right and just don't get it right, then it's going to just cause damage. And that's what's happening here with Polanko. Polanko is slightly off kilter for Abe. Well, he hasn't rolled over, that's for sure. He certainly hasn't. And he's managed to stop all those big, massive hip movements. Ah, now here we go. Ah, yes. And he switched it. He gets it, does he? Or does he get the straight hip on? Just stuck there for a little bit too long. Yeah, he did do, yeah. Just switched it to the Orochigari, didn't he? A lesser player may not have been able to react as quickly as Abe. But Polanko just stuck in there for a little bit too long. Abe turned it and over. Polanko went. He shows the brilliance, doesn't he, of Abe? And watch this. This will be pure class as he comes off.