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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Leon Garcia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Joao Alves (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Garcia comes to the cage accompanied by Vendetta. Alves comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Carl Orff - Carmina Burana - Andrι Rieu's version kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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195 lbs
7 - 0 - 0 |
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185 lbs
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BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
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BJJ Brown Belt
Brawler
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
7 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Leon Garcia!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Joao Alves!
The judges for this bout are Edson Gomes, Seu Braga and Paulo Santos.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A nice inside leg kick there by Garcia. That's going to slow Alves down.
Garcia throws a sloppy head kick and Alves moves out of range easily.
Garcia lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
A head kick from Garcia lands but Alves takes it in his stride.
Garcia looks to land a left hand but Alves moved out of range nicely.
Alves shoots in and drives through. Garcia sprawls well.
Garcia avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Alves shoots in but Garcia avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Excellent takedown into side control there by Alves.
Garcia tries to escape but Alves is in control.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Garcia prevents Alves from moving into mount.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Garcia is pushing Alves's head away, looking to escape. Alves manages to hold on to the position though.
Alves is trying to get an arm triangle but Garcia is defending well.
It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.
Garcia avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Leon Garcia is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Garcia swats away the attempt to clinch by Alves.
Joao Alves seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Alves fails with an attempt to clinch.
Garcia jabs at Alves's body.
Garcia fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
Garcia thuds a mid kick into his opponent's body. That will wear on Alves if he has to take too many more of those.
Alves looks gassed!
Garcia misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Crunch! Garcia slams his shin into Alves's torso.
Garcia lands a head kick. Alves smiles back at him and beckons him forward.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
A head kick misses from Garcia.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Alves crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Garcia - the referee stops the clock and Alves gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Garcia. Alves manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Alves takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Garcia scoring well with a low kick there.
Garcia lands a head kick. Alves smiles back at him and beckons him forward.
It looks like Joao Alves has been cut.
A telegraphed takedown attempt from Alves is defended easily by Garcia.
Leon Garcia has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Joao Alves.
Garcia throws a head kick that Alves semi-blocks.
Alves is rocked!
Garcia lands a monster head kick that reverborates around the arena! The crowd goes wild as Alves crumples to the floor! Garcia milks the crowd's applause and if that isn't knockout of the night, I will be very surprised!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Leon Garcia!
Leon Garcia retains his middleweight title!
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hype
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pop
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