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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Maikel Canel (ranked 4017 p4p, 3730 weight class) and Mariano Medrano (ranked 401 p4p, 383 weight class). Medrano has chosen If You Know, You Know as his entrance music. Maikel Canel has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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224 cm 23 282 3 - 3 - 0 |
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196 cm 28 266 4 - 2 - 0 |
Decent wrestler Basic striking Cardio machine |
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BJJ White Belt Decent boxing Powerful |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division. Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of 3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Maikel Canel! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of 4 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Mariano Medrano! The judges for this bout are Emerson Jorge, Daniel Cesar and Leandro Rodrigues.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Canel decides to change it up a bit and drives through with a nice takedown into half guard. Canel is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Medrano! Canel is working for a guillotine from mount but Medrano frees his head quite easily.
Medrano is squirming around, avoiding Canel's attempts to control the action. Canel is thinking about an arm triangle here, looking to tighten it up before moving to side control. Medrano can see it coming though and defends well with a couple of strikes to the head and some good arm positioning.
Canel with good strikes from the mount here!
It looks like Mariano Medrano has been cut. This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff! Canel has isolated one of Medrano's arms. Medrano looking to fight him off but Canel twists into an armbar. It's tight... Will he tap?? YES, he's tapped! This one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:46 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Maikel Canel! Maikel Canel spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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RATING
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