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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ali Babanov (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Don Schmidt (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Schmidt's choice of entrance music: cult of personality. Don Schmidt has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Ali Babanov's chin.
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199 lbs
5 - 0 - 0 |
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187 cm
26
204 lbs
8 - 3 - 0 |
Decent wrestler
Counter fighter
Good chin |
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BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank |
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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
5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Ali Babanov!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Don Schmidt!
The judges for this bout are Ben Zyskovitsi, Arvi Lind and Marco Blurström.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Schmidt misses with a looping right.
Schmidt looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Babanov avoids a punch combination nicely.
Schmidt throws out a loose jab but Babanov uses good head movement to avoid it.
Babanov takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Babanov definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Babanov tries to close the distance and clinch up but Schmidt swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Schmidt stuffs the takedown attempt from Babanov. Babanov gets slowly back to his feet.
Babanov walks into a stiff left hand from Schmidt.
Don Schmidt is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Babanov uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Schmidt.
Schmidt rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Babanov moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Schmidt throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Babanov counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Schmidt is refusing to be controlled, as Babanov sits in half guard.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Schmidt can do anything to dispel that myth.
Babanov thows a huge punch but Schmidt dodges it nicely.
Babanov missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Babanov lands a nice short elbow.
Schmidt trying to control here.
Schmidt tries to push off, looking to stand up, but Babanov manages to move to mount!
Babanov 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.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Babanov landing punches.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Babanov raining down shots from the mount!
Babanov is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Babanov lands a couple of good shots and Schmidt has given up his back, trying to escape the position!
Babanov avoiding Schmidt 's attempts to control his hands.
Schmidt might have to switch it up a bit here because his efforts to control Babanov haven't been going to plan, at least at the current moment in time.
Schmidt biding his time here by controlling the hands, looking to escape.
Babanov is landing with strikes. Schmidt can't take much more of this.
Schmidt holding both Babanov 's hands and preventing any damage.
Babanov controlling well, preventing Schmidt from escaping the position.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Babanov somehow managing to miss with a strike from the back.
Babanov punishes Schmidt with strikes from the back mount.
Babanov throwing lazy shots from the back mount that aren't doing any damage.
Babanov has the hooks in. Schmidt is trying to push off one leg but he has to do so cautiously to avoid being submitted.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Babanov scores with punches from the back.
Babanov is working the ground and pound. Can Schmidt escape?
Schmidt is trying to break free.
Schmidt is trying to stand back up.
Babanov throwing sloppy strikes.
Babanov is working the back position looking for the choke. Oh, he's slid into an armbar! Beautiful transition and Schmidt taps out! Fantastic Jiu Jitsu from Babanov.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Ali Babanov!
Ali Babanov seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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