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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Cain Velasquez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Fabricio Werdum (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Velasquez might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to UFC - Face the Pain. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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244 lbs
10 - 1 - 0 |
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265 lbs
8 - 0 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Counter striker
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Counter striker
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
10 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Cain Velasquez!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
8 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Fabricio Werdum!
The judges for this bout are Konstantin Menshow, Ivan Kurochkin and Fedor Mirinova.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Werdum will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Werdum displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from Velasquez.
Werdum throws a body punch but Velasquez moves out of range.
Werdum closes the distance looking to clinch
and Velasquez counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Velasquez thows a huge punch but Werdum dodges it nicely.
Velasquez drops an elbow to the side of Werdum's head.
Werdum looking for submissions off his back.
Werdum wants to control but Velasquez is keeping busy.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Velasquez throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Velasquez controlling the pace.
Velasquez drops an elbow to the side of Werdum's head.
Velasquez wants to lay and pray for a moment but Werdum keeps working.
Werdum trying to control from the bottom.
Velasquez 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.
Velasquez lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Velasquez controlling the pace.
Velasquez missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Velasquez landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Velasquez takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Velasquez lands a nice short elbow.
Velasquez lands with a punch from half guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Velasquez throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Velasquez not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Werdum looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Werdum is looking to improve his position.
Werdum has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Velasquez is working away from the top position though.
Velasquez stalling.
Werdum actively working from the bottom here.
Velasquez frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Velasquez lands with some strikes.
Velasquez putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Velasquez prevents Werdum from getting the reversal.
Velasquez is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Velasquez looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Velasquez working Werdum over with strikes here.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Werdum is squirming around, avoiding Velasquez's attempts to control the action.
Velasquez cracks Werdum with a big head shot that has him covering up instantly! He's rolled onto his side and the referee has seen enough - this one is aaaaaaaaaaall over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Cain Velasquez!
Cain Velasquez retains his heavyweight title!
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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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