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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Apollo Need (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Hidehiko Sakuraba (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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27
195 lbs
9 - 5 - 0 |
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188 cm
26
189 lbs
7 - 5 - 0 |
Powerful takedowns
Excellent boxer
Very strong |
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BJJ Brown Belt
Counter striker
Solid chin |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Apollo Need!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
7 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Hidehiko Sakuraba!
The judges for this bout are Leandro Rodrigues, Mauricio Rocha and Emerson Jorge.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Need shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Need was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Need punishing his opponent with strikes.
Need controlling his opponent.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
BOOM! Need connects with a massive shot to the dome!
It looks like Hidehiko Sakuraba has been cut.
Need has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
BOOM! Need connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Need cracks Sakuraba with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Need working for a submission but Sakuraba is keeping him at bay.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Sakuraba is bucking up trying to escape but Need cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
That has opened up Hidehiko Sakuraba's cut even more.
BOOM! Need connects with a massive shot to the dome!
The cut above Hidehiko Sakuraba's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
Need is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Hidehiko Sakuraba's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.
The referee calls the doctor in to look at Hidehiko Sakuraba's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Apollo Need!
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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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