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Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Dude Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Daniel Reyes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Love comes into the arena with Imagine blaring out of the sound system. Reyes has chosen SIMULA PA LANG as his entrance music. Dude Love had real problems making weight for this fight. After initially coming in at 136.4lbs, he had two hours to make the official fight weight. He made it but it will have taken a lot out of him to cut those extra few pounds. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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149 lbs
18 - 16 - 0 |
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175 cm
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146 lbs
14 - 7 - 0 |
BJJ Red Belt
Excellent boxer
Insanely flexible |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Solid chin |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
18 - 16 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Dude Love!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
14 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Daniel Reyes!
The judges for this bout are Ryoma Takatsuka, Jeff Smith and Micheangelo Fripello.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Reyes avoids a punch combination nicely.
Reyes wants to clinch but Love slips to the side
and Love counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.
Love stands up and waves to Reyes to follow him.
Reyes wants to clinch but Love slips to the side
and Love counters with a nice double leg into side control. Reyes won't be happy with that.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Love swings around for an armbar but Reyes sees it coming a mile off and turns beautifully into Love's guard.
Reyes really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Love. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Love working for a triangle but Reyes defends it easily.
Love manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Reyes manages to get himself to full guard.
Love has gone for a leg lock! Reyes slips out almost immediately though and dives into Love's guard.
Love has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Reyes can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Love is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Love throws his legs up looking to secure a triangle. Oh, that looks pretty tight, I gotta say! Reyes escapes and throws Love's legs to the side, diving into side control!
Reyes stands up and beckons Love to his feet.
Reyes tries to clinch up.
Reyes tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Love manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Reyes tries to clinch there but Love circles away.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Reyes has taken the fight to the clinch.
Love jumps guard but Reyes turns him against the cage and keeps the fight standing.
Reyes is pushing Love up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Reyes is trying to break the clinch but Love has him pressed against the cage.
Reyes unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Reyes working hard to break the clinch.
Reyes breaks from the clinch.
Love has been working on his balance at Hilo Training Center, so perhaps that has help him stuff some of the takedown attempts by Reyes.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Reyes misses with a few strikes there.
Reyes tries to clinch up but Love circles away and keeps his distance.
Reyes gets the takedown into side control.
Love tries to bench press Reyes off him but Reyes keeps the position.
Love manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.
Love actively working from the bottom here.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Love slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
Love is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Reyes defends well.
Love throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Reyes avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Love has his foot on Reyes's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Reyes works his way back into a safe position though.
Love has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Reyes can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
Love looking for a sweep. Not yet Love, not yet.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Love wants to improve his position but instead Reyes has moved into half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Reyes tries to stand but his arm is trapped.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Dude Love dominated that round.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!
Reyes tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Reyes shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Love sprawls well. Love wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Reyes gets slowly back to his feet.
Reyes throws a nice looking combination but Love bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Reyes tries to clinch up but Love circles away and keeps his distance.
Reyes gets a clinch.
Love tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Reyes just stands there and leans against the cage.
Love is trying to pull guard but Reyes has him pressed against the cage.
Love fails to pull the fight into his guard.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Dude Love. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Reyes breaks from the clinch.
Reyes tries to clinch up.
Reyes doesn't manage to clinch there - Love circles away.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Reyes is looking to clinch.
Reyes fails to land the takedown.
Daniel Reyes seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Love circles away from the clinch attempt
so Love counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.
Love wants to pass the guard but Reyes is keeping the position.
Love pushing down on Reyes's thigh, trying to pass to half guard. He's managed it... Nice work.
Love decides to stand and escape the position.
Reyes tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
A jab from Reyes misses.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Reyes tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Reyes tries to close the distance and clinch but Love swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Reyes tries to clinch up
and Love counters with a nice double leg into half guard.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Love is working for a submission of some sort.
Reyes is trying to stand back up but Love is controlling him
Love is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
Love is working for a kimura but Reyes is defending it quite comfortably.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Love escapes and gets back to his feet.
Reyes tries to clinch up.
Reyes gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Love manages to pull guard.
Love bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Reyes's guard.
Love works a leg free and moves into half guard.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Love in half guard on the top. He's looking for a kimura... He's got it locked and he's managed to free his trapped foot. Reyes tries to escape but it's on too tight and he has to tap! Great BJJ skills there from Love!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:19 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Dude Love!
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
41% |
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