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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Roman Gruzinsky (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rauli Raunio (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gruzinsky comes to the cage accompanied by Россия. The crowd seem to be enjoying Raunio's choice of entrance music: For Heavy Metal we will die!. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.
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207 lbs
12 - 2 - 0 |
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198 cm
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207 lbs
13 - 7 - 0 |
Great wrestler
World class boxer
Cardio machine |
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Good wrestler
World class MT
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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
12 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Roman Gruzinsky!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
13 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Rauli Raunio!
The judges for this bout are Paul Tew, James Atkins and Daniel Bishop.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Raunio lands a jab to the nose.
Gruzinsky defending well as Raunio loads up on a big left hand.
Raunio misses with a lunging right hand
letting Gruzinsky counter with a right hand.
Raunio bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
A looping hook to the body misses from Gruzinsky. Raunio does a little dance to reset his feet.
Gruzinsky moves into range and lands a nice body kick.
Raunio throws a front kick aimed at Gruzinsky's knee but Gruzinsky avoids it well.
Nice uppercut there from Raunio.
Gruzinsky lands with a thumping leg kick.
Gruzinsky scores with a nice head shot.
Gruzinsky throws a lazy head kick
and Raunio counters with a takedown into side control.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Raunio throwing shots but missing, from side control.
Gruzinsky throws his opponent off and manages to get back to his feet! Nicely done!
Raunio tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Gruzinsky was well out of range. Poor timing from Raunio.
Gruzinsky is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Raunio.
Gruzinsky misses with a kick to the body
and Raunio counters with a two punch combo.
Raunio misses with a hook.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Raunio throws a quick inside leg kick.
Raunio thumps Gruzinsky with a low kick.
Raunio throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Gruzinsky's waist but Gruzinsky gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Raunio off to one side.
Gruzinsky moves away from the strike by Raunio.
Raunio lands a nice leg kick that just misses Gruzinsky's sensitive parts.
Raunio misses with an uppercut
and Gruzinsky holds on and brings the fighters into a clinch.
Gruzinsky misses with a body punch.
Raunio misses with a punch to the body.
Gruzinsky fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Raunio throws a punch but it's blocked by Gruzinsky.
Raunio goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Gruzinsky.
Gruzinsky lands with a short shot to the head.
Raunio blocks a body shot from Gruzinsky.
Gruzinsky lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Gruzinsky cracks Raunio with a nice body shot.
Gruzinsky throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Raunios head.
Raunio working aggressively here.
Gruzinsky misses with the head strike.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Gruzinsky lands a body punch in the clinch.
Raunio digs a right hand underneath Gruzinsky's ribcage. Gruzinsky let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Raunio goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Gruzinsky lands with a right to the head.
Gruzinsky cracks Raunio with a nice body shot.
Raunio looks winded!
Gruzinsky lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Gruzinsky digs a right hand into Raunio's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Raunio's gas tank.
Gruzinsky tries to work over Raunio's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Gruzinsky swings wildly with an uppercut but Raunio uses good head movement to avoid it.
Raunio tries to throw a body punch but Gruzinsky avoids it by throwing Raunio back against the cage.
Gruzinsky misses with a punch to the body.
Raunio doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
A short uppercut from Gruzinsky.
Gruzinsky lands a nice uppercut.
Gruzinsky softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Raunio throws a punch but it's blocked by Gruzinsky.
Gruzinsky is leaning against Raunio and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Gruzinsky misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Gruzinsky misses with a hook from the clinch.
Gruzinsky misses with some punches.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Gruzinsky.
Gruzinsky lands a nice shot to the body.
Gruzinsky fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Gruzinsky is pressed up against the cage. Raunio has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Gruzinsky down to the mat. Gruzinsky avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
Gruzinsky is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Gruzinsky looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Gruzinsky throws a powerful right kick. Raunio tried to block low but the kick was high! Raunio was taken right off of his feet! Gruzinsky jumps in to finish the job and the ref tackles him! The fight is over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:23 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Roman Gruzinsky!
Roman Gruzinsky thanked the fans post fight for their support.
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hype
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pop
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RATING
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