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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between John Lemon (ranked 1936 p4p, 225 weight class) and Lyoto Yoshida (ranked 3130 p4p, 324 weight class). Lemon comes to the cage accompanied by The New Potatoes. Lemon has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the prize buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!
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180 lbs
8 - 3 - 0 |
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189 lbs
3 - 1 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Granite chin |
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Good wrestler
Counter fighter
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, John Lemon!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Lyoto Yoshida!
The judges for this bout are Don Winkell, Timothy Bukovac and Frank Antenori.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A left and a right from Lemon both land. Nice combination.
Lemon is breathing heavily.
Yoshida avoids the head kick by Lemon.
Lemon misses the jab.
As Lemon backs off Yoshida throws a huge counter combo but Lemon manages to avoid it all.
Yoshida rushes Lemon and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Yoshida lands a nice uppercut.
Lemon swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Yoshida lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Yoshida holding his opponent close, against the cage.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Yoshida.
Yoshida lands a hook that snaps the head of Lemon backwards.
Yoshida is leaning against Lemon and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Lemon avoiding damage as Yoshida throws knees to the body.
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!
A hook to the body from Yoshida.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Yoshida just misses with a elbow thrown towards Lemon's brow.
Yoshida throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Lemons head.
Yoshida lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Yoshida tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Lemon avoids it.
Yoshida softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
A short body shot lands from Yoshida as the two fighters clinch.
That's one minute gone in the round.
A shot in the inside from Yoshida.
Yoshida creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Lemon's defenses.
Yoshida gets through Lemon's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Lemon taking a breather.
Yoshida crunches a lovely knee into Lemon's ribcage.
Yoshida softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Yoshida working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
A right hook to the body lands for Yoshida.
A short uppercut from Yoshida.
Nice elbow from Yoshida.
A short left from Yoshida.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
A short right hand to the side of the head by Yoshida.
A short right from Yoshida on the inside.
Yoshida stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Yoshida scores with a shoulder strike.
Yoshida is leaning against Lemon and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
A short body shot lands from Yoshida as the two fighters clinch.
Yoshida presses Lemon against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Yoshida scores with an uppercut up the middle.
A left hand lands to the body for Yoshida.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Yoshida creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Still in the clinch, Yoshida scores with a nice short uppercut.
Yoshida working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Yoshida lands with a short shot to the head.
Yoshida misses with a punch to the body.
A left hand lands to the body for Yoshida.
Yoshida gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Lemon is rocked!
It looks like John Lemon has been cut.
A short uppercut from Yoshida.
Oh Lemon is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Yoshida comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Yoshida throws an elbow that misses.
With the fighters up against the cage, Yoshida throws an elbow but misses.
Yoshida goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Yoshida scores with a hook to the body.
Yoshida lands with a left to the head.
Yoshida goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Yoshida lands with a light punch inside.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Yoshida lands an elbow inside that Lemon shrugs off.
Yoshida scores with a nice hook to the head.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
A left hand lands to the body for Yoshida.
A short right from Yoshida.
Yoshida goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Yoshida lands a left hand.
Yoshida stalling the fight.
A body shot lands from Yoshida.
Lemon takes an elbow to the temple.
Yoshida lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Yoshida pushes Lemon back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Yoshida lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Lemon to his knees! Yoshida keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Lyoto Yoshida!
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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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