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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Abubakar Camara (ranked 179 p4p, 1460 weight class) and Jack Tupp (ranked 32 p4p, 172 weight class). Tupp has chosen Black No. 1 as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Abu Dhabi Champ
World class boxer
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Good wrestler
Excellent boxer
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 13 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Abubakar Camara!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Jack Tupp!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Jack Bonds and Timothy Bukovac.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tupp on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Tupp walks into a stiff left hand from Camara.
Tupp keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Camara is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Tupp drops Camara with a beautiful combination! Camara stares up at his opponent, who ushers him back to his feet - Tupp is looking for the KO!
Camara is rocked!
It looks like Abubakar Camara has been cut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Camara throws a jab when Tupp was well out of range.
Oh Camara is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Camara lands with a good body shot.
Camara seems to have got his legs back now.
Camara lands a jab to Tupp's midsection.
Camara works the jab nicely.
Camara scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Tupp closes the distance and clinches up with Camara, looking for a takedown. Tupp pushes Camara against the cage but Camara circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Tupp scores with a nice strike.
Camara scores with a nice head shot.
Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Tupp. Camara shrugs it off though.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Tupp tries to close the distance and clinch but Camara swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Tupp drops down and drives through with a powerful takedown into guard.
Camara escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Tupp gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Camara not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
Tupp must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Tupp trying to control but Camara is working from the bottom.
Camara has thrown up a leg looking for a triangle. Tupp doesn't defend quickly enough and Camara has managed to lock this one up! Can Tupp escape?! NO! He's tapping out! Damn, that was a quick submission - congrats to Camara on a fantastic submission victory.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:50 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Abubakar Camara!
Abubakar Camara retains his heavyweight title!
During a confident post fight interview, Abubakar Camara thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
In defeat, Jack Tupp stepped up to the mic, saying 'I gave him my best. I didn’t want to tap'.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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