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Coming up we have a featherweight kickboxing rules bout between Jacobo Fonseca (ranked 7147 p4p, 6434 weight class) and Charlie River (ranked 520 p4p, 487 weight class). River has chosen Waylon Jennings - I've Always Been Crazy as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Excellent MT
Big heart
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Jacobo Fonseca!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Charlie River!
The judges for this bout are Taro Takaoka, Yukihiro Shimada and Yasuomi Hirokawa.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
River clinches with his opponent.
River makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
River lands a nice uppercut.
A short left from River.
River lands a body shot in the clinch.
River makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
A nice left hand lands by River.
Fonseca scores with a shoulder strike.
River tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Fonseca tries to break free but River pushes him back against the ropes.
A right hook to the body lands for River.
River lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Fonseca backwards.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
River scores with a hook to the body.
River lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Fonseca or not.
I was talking to Fonseca's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
River pushes Fonseca back against the ropes and lands a hook to the side of the head.
River is working Fonseca over against the ropes.
River is leaning against Fonseca and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Fonseca is breathing heavily.
Fonseca wants to get back to striking at distance but River won't allow it.
River cracks Fonseca with a nice body shot.
River lands a left hand that snaps the head of Fonseca backwards.
River has been looking to improve his clinch game in recent weeks. Fonseca seems to have the measure of him in the clinch so far, so let's see if River can turn it around.
Nice body punch from River - that landed with a thud.
River cracks Fonseca with a nice body shot.
A quick uppercut on the inside from River.
That's one minute gone in the round.
River lands with a right to the head.
Fonseca is rocked!
A short right hand to the side of the head by River.
Oh Fonseca is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
A hook to the body from River.
River lands an uppercut.
River throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Fonsecas head.
River working some nice short punches in the clinch.
River softening up his opponent with strikes, against the ropes.
River stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
River working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Fonseca letting River take a breather here.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
River creates a bit of space for himself and unleashed what can only be described as a tiger uppercut, straight out of Street Fighter! Fonseca crashes to the mat! Can he make it back to his feet in time? 3,4,5,6... it doesn't look like he's going to make it! Fonseca face plants back to the mat and the referee calls off the fight! River takes it with a brutal technical knockout!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Charlie River!
Charlie River bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.
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hype
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