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Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Georges St Pierre (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pep Hernandez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Hernandez's choice of entrance music: Heart Vacnacy- the wanted. Georges St Pierre has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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185 lbs
4 - 1 - 0 |
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175 lbs
12 - 16 - 1 |
Good wrestling
Great elbows
Cardio machine |
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BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Georges St Pierre!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
12 - 16 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, Pep Hernandez!
The judges for this bout are Patrick Alders, Nard Betker and Daniel Blasius.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
St Pierre with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
St Pierre dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Hernandez. That did some damage!
St Pierre fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Hernandez has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Hernandez takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
St Pierre scores with a one two! Hernandez had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
A thudding body kick lands there by St Pierre!
Hernandez throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Hernandez gets cracked there but stands up to it.
St Pierre rushes Hernandez and presses him up against the cage.
St Pierre lands a nice trip takedown into half guard.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
St Pierre throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
St Pierre looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Hernandez with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Hernandez is trying to stand up here but St Pierre is controlling him well.
Nice strikes from St Pierre there.
Nice strikes from St Pierre there.
St Pierre is nestled in close to Hernandez, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
Hernandez looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Hernandez is not content to let St Pierre control the position.
That's one minute gone in the round.
St Pierre seems to be working for a kimura but Hernandez defends the submission attempt.
Hernandez keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
St Pierre throwing shots but Hernandez is blocking nicely.
Hernandez trying to control here.
Hernandez is looking to escape.
St Pierre works his way into full mount!
Hernandez can't escape the position.
Hernandez looks gassed!
St Pierre punishing his opponent with strikes.
St Pierre lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hernandez is looking to get to half guard.
St Pierre punishing his opponent with strikes.
Hernandez is rocked!
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Oooooh, big shot lands for St Pierre! Hernandez is hurt baaadly! St Pierre is firing away with more strikes - Hernandez is covering up... the ref is warning him to do something. He's just covering up though still and the ref has to step in to end the fight! This one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Georges St Pierre!
A relieved looking Georges St Pierre thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
A | B |
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
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