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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Toran Roth (ranked 2954 p4p, 24784 weight class) and Abdul Jcool (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Roth comes to the cage accompanied by Dogodine u Prizrenu. The crowd seem to be enjoying Jcool's choice of entrance music: Eye of the tiger. Toran Roth could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Abdul Jcool's chin.
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Good wrestling
Lethal high kicks
Insanely flexible |
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BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
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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 16 - 16 - 2, fighting out of London, Toran Roth!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Abdul Jcool!
The judges for this bout are Andrew Berry, Colin Fotheringham and Daniel Bishop.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jcool gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
enabling Roth to counter with a crisp jab.
We've been told by Roth's head coaches at London MMA Club that he's been working on his takedown defense in preparation for this fight.
Excellent takedown into side control there by Roth.
Roth decides to stand back up.
Roth moves into range and clinches up with Jcool.
Jcool pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Roth misses with a double jab.
Abdul Jcool seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Jcool with a poor takedown
and Roth counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
Roth breaks from the clinch.
Roth connects with a crisp jab.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Jcool darts in looking for a takedown but Roth gets double underhooks and turns Jcool into the cage.
Toran Roth has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Abdul Jcool.
Roth fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Jcool, pushing him back against the cage.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Roth breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Jcool fakes high and shoots in for a takedown but Roth avoids it really well and circles away.
Roth connects with a body shot.
Jcool looks winded!
Jcool shoots in but doesn't get the takedown
and Roth counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
It looks like Abdul Jcool has been cut.
Roth ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Roth throws a 1-2 combo that connects squarely on Jcool's jaw, knocking him onto his back! Roth dives in looking to finish as Jcool flails his arms in a desperate attempt to block Roth's strikes! Roth is raining down hammerfists and the ref stops it! Jcool's desperate flailing just didn't constitute intelligent defence. Some people will probably question the ref's decision but Jcool was definitely hurt and the ref saved him from taking unnecessary punishment. A fighter's safety is paramount in this sport.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Toran Roth!
A relieved looking Toran Roth thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
Abdul Jcool spoke after the fight, saying '"Everybody out there know I beat him, I controlled the fight, he was missing, I hit him plenty more times. I beat him.Let me talk something... I want to thank the whole hood who came out here. I love y'all. I did this for the hood, you know I beat that boy.'.
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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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