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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Kenny Smith (ranked 3110 p4p, 354 weight class) and Antonino Loggia (ranked 3346 p4p, 376 weight class). Smith comes to the cage accompanied by Is This Love. Loggia has chosen Your Woman Has Just Been Sighted (Ring The Alarm) as his entrance music. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!
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185 lbs
2 - 1 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Great elbows
Granite chin |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
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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
2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Kenny Smith!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Antonino Loggia!
The judges for this bout are Vladimir Khabensky, Viktor Lagutenko and Aleksandr Martynov.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Loggia thows a left - swing and a miss!
Loggia looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
A big left from Loggia misses.
Smith is looking to counter the offense by Loggia and move into the clinch.
Loggia gets tackled into the cage by Smith. Smith maintains the clinch.
Smith prevents the takedown attempt.
I was talking to Smith's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Smith slowing the pace effectively.
Loggia looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Smith landing knees to the head.
The pace really dropping off here, momentarily.
Smith lands a nice elbow.
Loggia is working on a leg, looking for a takedown but Smith is defending well.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Smith has Loggia pushed against the cage.
Smith lands an elbow inside that Loggia shrugs off.
It looks like Antonino Loggia has been cut.
Loggia takes a knee right on the jaw!
Loggia tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Smith just stands there and leans against the cage.
Kenny Smith has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Antonino Loggia.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Loggia tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Smith just stands there and leans against the cage.
Smith connects with a knee to the head.
Smith creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Loggia's defenses.
Loggia looking to stall.
Smith lands an elbow that stopped Loggia in his tracks for a moment.
Smith will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Loggia up against the cage.
Smith is clearly stalling here... Pick up the pace son.
Smith gets a warning from the ref for wasting time.
Smith landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Smith scores a nice knee to the body.
Nice elbow from Smith.
Loggia wants to break the clinch but can't.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Smith pushes off an throws an elbow but Loggia leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Smith lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Loggia is rocked!
Stalling in the clinch from Smith.
Loggia is still on wobbly legs! Can Smith finish him?
Smith has the Thai clinch. He lands a big knee to the head that stumbles Loggia - he's in trouble! Another big knee to the head from Smith, and another! Loggia is out on his feet - the ref jumps in to save him and ends the fight!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Knees). Kenny Smith!
Our winner, Kenny Smith, 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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energy
A | B |
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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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