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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Cesare Tiramanti (ranked 422 p4p, 786 weight class) and Osama Akharraz (ranked 64 p4p, 111 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 14 - 4 - 1, fighting out of New York, Cesare Tiramanti!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 28 - 30 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Osama Akharraz!
The judges for this bout are Aafke Stam, Patrick Alders and Radbod Blank.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tiramanti darts in and clinches Akharraz up against the cage.
Tiramanti blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Tiramanti misses with a body punch.
Tiramanti lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Akharraz lands with a right to the head.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Tiramanti lands with a short shot to the head.
Tiramanti misses with a punch to the body.
Tiramanti lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Tiramanti lands with a left to the head.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Akharraz.
Akharraz is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Tiramanti cracks Akharraz with a nice body shot.
Tiramanti fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Akharraz blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Akharraz trying to control the position but instead, Tiramanti has worked for underhooks and has pushed Akharraz into the cage.
Tiramanti throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Akharrazs head.
I was talking to Tiramanti's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Tiramanti tries to throw a body punch but Akharraz avoids it by throwing Tiramanti back against the cage.
Tiramanti blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Tiramanti blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Tiramanti struggles to land a body shot inside as Akharraz controls his hands.
Tiramanti lands a hook that snaps the head of Akharraz backwards.
Tiramanti swings wildly with an uppercut but Akharraz uses good head movement to avoid it.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Akharraz creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Tiramanti tries to work over Akharraz's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Akharraz lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Tiramanti backwards.
Akharraz has been looking to improve his clinch game in recent weeks. Tiramanti seems to have the measure of him in the clinch so far, so let's see if Akharraz can turn it around.
Tiramanti working aggressively here.
Tiramanti blocks an elbow strike from Akharraz.
Akharraz working aggressively here.
Tiramanti misses with some punches.
Tiramanti presses Akharraz against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
A nice right hand lands inside from Tiramanti.
A right handed body shot lands from Tiramanti.
Akharraz is trying to stall.
Tiramanti lands with a left to the head.
Tiramanti misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Akharraz misses with a hook from the clinch.
Akharraz prevents a body shot from Tiramanti.
Tiramanti struggles to land a body shot inside as Akharraz controls his hands.
Tiramanti tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Akharraz's elbow.
Akharraz takes a shot to the head.
Tiramanti blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Akharraz taking a breather.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
A nice left hand lands by Tiramanti.
Tiramanti misses with some punches.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Akharraz tries to throw a body punch but Tiramanti avoids it by throwing Akharraz back against the cage.
Akharraz misses with a hook from the clinch.
Akharraz lands an elbow inside.
Tiramanti works on Akharraz's body with a couple of short punches.
Tiramanti lands a hook to the side of the head.
Tiramanti tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Akharraz trying to land knees to the body.
Akharraz stalling in the clinch but Tiramanti improves position.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Tiramanti tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Tiramanti.
Tiramanti lands a body shot in the clinch.
Tiramanti pushes Akharraz back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Tiramanti lands a body shot.
Akharraz looks winded!
Akharraz wants to stall.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Tiramanti creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Tiramanti stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Tiramanti lands a body punch.
Tiramanti scores with a nice hook to the head.
Akharraz is rocked!
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tiramanti lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Akharraz to his knees! Tiramanti keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:10 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Cesare Tiramanti!
Cesare Tiramanti retains his light heavyweight title!
Cesare Tiramanti bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.
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