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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Antonio Inoki (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and White Black (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Black comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Bill Conti - Gonna Fly Now kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.
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180 lbs
7 - 5 - 0 |
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192 lbs
4 - 2 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Experienced |
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BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed |
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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
7 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Antonio Inoki!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, White Black!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Blasius, Saam Ante and Nard Betker.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Black lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Inoki gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Inoki lands a right hand.
Inoki misses with a body punch.
Inoki has Black pressed against the cage, preventing Black from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Black scores with a shot to the side of Inoki's head.
Black takes a shot to the head.
A head punch on the inside from Inoki fails to land.
Black is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Inoki swings away with an uppercut that misses.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Black wants to get back to striking at distance but Inoki won't allow it.
Black is trying to push Inoki away but Inoki has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Inoki's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
White Black seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Black waves his right hand out in front of him, looking to distract Inoki. Oh, he's unloaded a beast of a left hand - it worked! He's dropped Inoki to the canvas! Can he finish him!?
Inoki is rocked!
It looks like Antonio Inoki has been cut.
Inoki is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Oh Inoki is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Inoki bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Black's guard.
Inoki seems to have got his legs back now.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Inoki stops Black from standing up.
Inoki throws a big elbow that misses.
Inoki trying to control but Black is working from the bottom.
Black utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Inoki connects with a couple of short punches.
Inoki postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Inoki postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Inoki trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Inoki with a flurry of punches that miss.
Inoki 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.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Inoki postures up in Black's guard and throws a big left but Black blocks it.
Inoki drops back for a leg! It's a sloppy attempt though and Inoki jumps back into guard quickly, to retain the dominant position.
Inoki throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Inoki throwing strikes but missing.
Black is looking to get back to his feet but can't, whilst Inoki is controlling him.
Inoki trying to control but Black is working from the bottom.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Inoki prevents Black from getting back to his feet.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Inoki distracts Black with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Inoki works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Inoki missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Inoki decides he's had enough of the ground and stands up.
Black avoids a punch combination nicely.
Inoki misses with an attempted mid kick.
Inoki looks to land a combination but Black avoids it well.
Black tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Inoki paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Black misses with a left hand
and Inoki counters with a nice uppercut.
Black misses with a wild combination.
Inoki lands with a cross.
Inoki throws a series of punches but Black avoids them all with ease.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
A jab from Inoki does it's job there.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Black misses with a double jab.
Black looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Black is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Inoki.
Black will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Inoki keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Black.
Inoki misses with a head kick.
Inoki tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Black throws a left and a right that both miss
and Inoki counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
Inoki has Black pressed against the cage, preventing Black from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Inoki struggles to land a body shot inside as Black controls his hands.
Black wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Black looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Black wants to break free but Inoki has control.
Black wants to get back to striking at distance but Inoki won't allow it.
Black wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Black trying to stall but Inoki improves his position.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
That was a close round but I would say that Antonio Inoki will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Antonio Inoki's cut.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.
Inoki misses with a low kick as Black jumps back.
Oooh a lovely combination from Black sends Inoki down but not out. Black dives into side control looking to finish.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Inoki gets back to half guard.
Inoki flails away from the bottom but he's not doing any damage.
Inoki makes his way to full guard. A much better position for Inoki.
Inoki has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Black can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
Inoki might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Inoki manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
That's one minute gone in the round.
Black wants to try and get back to his feet.
Inoki with good strikes from the mount here!
Inoki loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Black scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Inoki land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Inoki stands and salutes the crowd.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:43 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Antonio Inoki!
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energy
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hype
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pop
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