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Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Chelsea Salvacion (ranked 23963 p4p, 2946 weight class) and Hayato Sakuraba (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). This should be a great matchup!
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BJJ Blue Belt
Decent elbows
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World class MT
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 8 - 0, fighting out of New York, Chelsea Salvacion!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Hayato Sakuraba!
The judges for this bout are David Schapiro, Chad Campbell and John Roberts.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sakuraba lands a jab followed by a vicious hook that sends Salvacion sprawling to the canvas. Sakuraba follows him down, looking for the kill. Can Salvacion hang on?
Salvacion is rocked!
It looks like Chelsea Salvacion has been cut.
Sakuraba is controlling the pace.
Oh Salvacion is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Sakuraba missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Salvacion seems to have got his legs back now.
Sakuraba is controlling the pace.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Let's hope that Sakuraba has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.
Sakuraba moves into full mount! Salvacion won't be happy about that!
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Sakuraba cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Sakuraba controlling his opponent.
Sakuraba dominating with strikes here.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sakuraba dominating with strikes here.
Sakuraba takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
A nice elbow there by Sakuraba.
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
Sakuraba scores with a couple of good head shots there.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Sakuraba lands a big elbow.
Sakuraba controlling his opponent.
Sakuraba scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Salvacion?
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Salvacion is bucking up trying to escape but Sakuraba cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Sakuraba controlling the pace for now.
Sakuraba lands a big elbow - Salvacion is in trouble! More strikes from the mount and Salvacion is forced to tap out!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Hayato Sakuraba!
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
RATING
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