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Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Hannibal Butrovic (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thomas Gunner (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rumors backstage are that the fighters have been paid to keep it standing but we know that would never happen in MMA!
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168 lbs
13 - 3 - 0 |
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178 cm
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165 lbs
12 - 10 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
13 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Hannibal Butrovic!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
12 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Thomas Gunner!
The judges for this bout are Nard Betker, Radbod Blank and Patrick Alders.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Butrovic lands with a shot to the body.
Gunner scores with a crisp jab that stopped Butrovic in his tracks.
Gunner throws a hook to the side of Butrovic's head but Butrovic sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Gunner lands with a nice body kick.
Butrovic on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Butrovic connects with a crisp jab.
Butrovic scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Butrovic staying calm.
Gunner throws an elbow to the body but it doesn't land.
Gunner is trying to improve his position.
Check out the look on Butrovic's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Butrovic scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Gunner to see if he's OK.
Gunner misses with a strike from the bottom.
Gunner trying to remain calm as Butrovic controls from the top position.
Gunner is not content to let Butrovic control the position.
Gunner misses with an elbow from the bottom.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Butrovic is chipping away with strikes.
Butrovic trying to control the position but Gunner is working away.
Gunner throws a couple of strikes even though he's not really in a good position to do so.
Butrovic works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Gunner prevents Butrovic from moving into mount.
Gunner throwing some weak shots from the bottom that do no damage.
Butrovic remains in side control and seems content to stay there. It's a versatile position from which he can work both strikes and submissions, whilst maintaining that control, so maybe he'll sit here for a while.
Gunner throws a couple of punches but he's in a bad position and they don't land.
Gunner is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Butrovic trying to control the position but Gunner is working away.
Butrovic slips into full mount, dodging the strikes by Gunner.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Butrovic scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Gunner?
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Butrovic looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Butrovic putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Gunner is rocked!
Gunner working to try and regain half guard.
Gunner is still in real trouble! Can Butrovic finish him?
Butrovic raining down hammerfists from mount.
Gunner takes a big shot to the dome and his eyes have rolled back in his head! Butrovic's killer instinct has kicked in as he finishes the fight with more strikes. Impressive finish.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Hannibal Butrovic!
Hannibal Butrovic bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.
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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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