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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ralf Silva (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Nogueira comes to the cage accompanied by Gimme Shelter. Silva is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by i gotta feeling. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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235 lbs
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275 lbs
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BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
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BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ralf Silva!
The judges for this bout are Luis Engracia, Seu Braga and Paulo Santos.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nogueira rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Silva moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Silva stuffs the takedown.
Nice takedown defense from Silva. No joy for Nogueira on that attempt.
Nogueira throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Silva.
Nice takedown defense from Silva. No joy for Nogueira on that attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Silva doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Silva takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Silva scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Nogueira is looking for a sweep. Silva is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
Nogueira actively working from the bottom here.
Nogueira looking for submissions off his back.
Silva controlling the action here.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Silva is trying to control. Nogueira wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Nogueira wants to get back to full guard.
Silva is thwarting Nogueira's attempts to control the position.
The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Nogueira avoids a punch combination nicely.
Nogueira looks to land a right hand but Silva moved out of range.
Silva fails to land the takedown.
Silva gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Silva pulls Nogueira in close to prevent any damage.
Nogueira advances position into side control!
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Silva tries to bench press Nogueira off him but Nogueira keeps the position.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nogueira looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
An elbow from Nogueira crashes against the mat.
Nogueira tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Nogueira has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Silva tries to bench press Nogueira off him but Nogueira keeps the position.
Silva manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.
Silva is trying is best to control the position here.
Nogueira uses his free foot to push down on Silva's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Silva.
Nogueira looking to control but Silva is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Silva is trying desperately to improve position.
Silva defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Nogueira.
Silva really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Nogueira. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Silva is trying to escape the mount.
Nogueira is going olschool here, as he tries to force Silva to tap using a forearm choke. This isn't 1993 though, so Silva shrugs it off.
Nogueira swings around for an armbar and he's got it! Wow, that came out of nowhere! What a finish!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira!
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira is the new heavyweight champion!
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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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