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Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Royce Gracie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Donnie O Brien (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gracie's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Heart of a Champion. O Brien has chosen Rocky Road to Dublin as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Royce Gracie has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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147 lbs
14 - 4 - 0 |
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142 lbs
19 - 5 - 1 |
Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine |
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Decent boxing
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the bantamweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
14 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Royce Gracie!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
19 - 5 - 1, fighting out of London, Donnie O Brien !
The judges for this bout are James Glass, Colin Fotheringham and Steven Brown.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gracie misses with a body shot.
O Brien looks for a takedown but Gracie sprawls well.
O Brien swings for the body but Gracie moves out of range.
O Brien shoots in looking for a takedown. Gracie tries to sprawl out of it but O Brien keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Gracie manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
Gracie plants his feet and lands a nice head kick!
That's one minute gone in the round.
Gracie keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Royce Gracie has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Donnie O Brien .
Gracie uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by O Brien .
Gracie missing with a left hand there. O Brien was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Both fighters are looking to counter, which isn't making for the most exciting fight in the world.
Gracie throws a left that rocks O Brien and follows with a right that sends him tumbling to the canvas! Gracie dives into side control, looking to finish! Can O Brien regain composure!
O Brien is rocked!
It looks like Donnie O Brien has been cut.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Gracie scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh O Brien is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Gracie can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Royce Gracie!
Royce Gracie retains his bantamweight title!
Royce Gracie decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.
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hype
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pop
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RATING
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