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Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Thiago Oliveira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Vladimir Rusev (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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205 lbs
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205 lbs
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Excellent MT
Good chin
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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
0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Thiago Oliveira!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Vladimir Rusev!
The judges for this bout are Seu Braga, Leandro Rodrigues and Felipe Paraventi.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rusev darts in and clinches Oliveira up against the ropes.
Oliveira looks exhausted already! Oh dear, he should have come in in better shape than this!
Rusev pressing his opponent against the ropes.
Oliveira blocks the elbow strike.
Oliveira has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Rusev creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Oliveira's defenses.
It looks like Thiago Oliveira has been cut.
Nice body punch from Rusev - that landed with a thud.
Oliveira blocks an elbow strike from Rusev.
Oliveira dodges an elbow strike from Rusev.
Rusev lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Oliveira.
Rusev pushes Oliveira back against the ropes and lands a hook to the side of the head.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
A nice glancing elbow lands by Rusev.
Rusev content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Rusev throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Rusev scores with a hook to the body.
A short uppercut from Rusev.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Rusev creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Oliveira's defenses.
Rusev lands an elbow just above Oliveira 's eye.
Thiago Oliveira's cut is getting worse.
Rusev lands a damaging elbow.
Rusev is leaning against Oliveira and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Rusev looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Rusev lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the ropes.
Rusev lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Oliveira is rocked!
Thiago Oliveira's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.
Rusev lands an elbow just above Oliveira 's eye.
Oh Oliveira is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Jeez, Thiago Oliveira's cut is really nasty now. The referee must be thinking about getting that checked.
Rusev breaks the clinch momentarily and cracks Oliveira with a big right hook that drops him to the canvas! Oliveira looks like he might be in big trouble here! The referee has started the count straight away and we're up to 5 already. Oliveira get to one knee - can he make it back to his feet? No, he's flopped back to the mat - he's out - this one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:33 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Vladimir Rusev!
Our winner, Vladimir Rusev, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.
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hype
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pop
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FIGHT
RATING
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