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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Karl Drogo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tony Thompson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Thompson is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: All In The Family. Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!
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212 lbs
3 - 1 - 0 |
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197 cm
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220 lbs
14 - 8 - 0 |
BJJ Brown Belt
World class MT
Cardio machine |
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Good wrestler
Lethal high kicks
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Karl Drogo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
14 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Tony Thompson!
The judges for this bout are Donatello Bradman, Winston Howard and Hugh Johnson.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Thompson ducks under a wild hook from Drogo.
Drogo lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Drogo throws a shot from downtown. Thompson moves away and avoids it.
Drogo scores with a jab to the head.
Karl Drogo seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Drogo connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Drogo blocks a head kick by Thompson.
Thompson lands a high kick!
Thompson tries to clinch but Drogo is having none of it.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Thompson's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Drogo connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Thompson scrambles back to his feet.
Drogo shapes like he's going to throw a leg kick but settles back down.
Thompson tries to clinch there but Drogo circles away.
Thompson misses with a kick to the body.
Drogo goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Thompson takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Thompson takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
Drogo looks to throw a body kick
and Thompson moves into the clinch.
Drogo working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Drogo scores with a nice hook to the head.
Thompson can't break the clinch.
Thompson wants to stall.
Thompson is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Drogo is defending well for now.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Drogo throws a knee to the head but misses.
Thompson lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
It looks like Karl Drogo has been cut.
Drogo blocks an elbow strike.
Drogo blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Thompson tries to circle away but Drogo has him pinned against the cage.
Thompson looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Drogo blocks the elbow strike.
Thompson throws an elbow that misses.
Thompson lands a damaging elbow.
Drogo gets through Thompson's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Thompson looking to stall.
Drogo jerks Thompson's head down, straight into the path of a devastating knee! Thompson drops to the floor in a crumpled heap! Drogo goes to throw a finishing haymaker but pulls out - good sportsmanship from Drogo because Thompson was completely out of it. That was a nice finish - just the right level of brutality to send everyone home happy.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knee). Karl Drogo!
Karl Drogo was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.
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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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