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Thomas Pagès defeated Taka Higashino in the head-to-head final in Madrid and clinched the X-Fighters season title for the Frenchman.

The race for the Red Bull X-Fighters season title should get tighter after Friday's battle in Madrid's bullring.

Osaka's own Taka Higashino outdueled Tom Pagès in the final to win the Red Bull X-Fighters Round 4 in his Japanese hometown.

Browse through our gallery of images from the Red Bull X-Fighters stop in Osaka, Japan

Saturday's first Red Bull X-Fighters stop in Asia will sadly be without Eigo Sato, the Japanese rider who died in February and helped bring the series to Osaka

Because of high winds, the Moto X Freestyle final was turned into an exhibition.