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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Vincent Van Elburg (ranked 1991 p4p, 4154 weight class) and Luis Ruiz (ranked 184 p4p, 331 weight class). Luis Ruiz is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.
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BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
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BJJ Blue Belt
Good kicks
Heavy handed |
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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 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Vincent Van Elburg!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Luis Ruiz!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Viktor Lagutenko and Illya Tyunina.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Van Elburg dodges the punch combination from Ruiz.
Van Elburg moves into the clinch.
Ruiz has had enough of the clinch but Van Elburg keeps him there for the moment.
Ruiz takes a shot to the head.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Van Elburg.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Van Elburg creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Van Elburg scores with a shot to the side of Ruiz's head.
Van Elburg lands a body shot in the clinch.
Van Elburg presses Ruiz against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Van Elburg lands a nice shot to the body.
Ruiz looks winded!
A right handed body shot lands from Van Elburg.
I was talking to Van Elburg's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Van Elburg lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Van Elburg working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Van Elburg scores with a nice hook to the head.
Van Elburg is working Ruiz over against the cage.
Van Elburg lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Ruiz or not.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Van Elburg scores with a nice hook to the head.
A right hand to the body from Van Elburg.
Van Elburg softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Van Elburg gets through Ruiz's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Ruiz's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Ruiz is rocked!
Van Elburg stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Ruiz is still on wobbly legs! Can Van Elburg finish him?
Van Elburg throws a head punch that misses.
Van Elburg swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Van Elburg swings wildly with an uppercut but Ruiz uses good head movement to avoid it.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Ruiz.
A right handed body shot lands from Van Elburg.
Van Elburg misses with some punches.
Ruiz blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Van Elburg misses with a short punch on the inside.
Van Elburg working aggressively here.
Ruiz blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Ruiz blocks an uppercut.
Van Elburg really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Van Elburg misses with some punches.
Van Elburg works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Van Elburg swings wildly with an uppercut but Ruiz uses good head movement to avoid it.
Ruiz blocks an uppercut.
Ruiz blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Ruiz blocks an uppercut.
A head punch on the inside from Van Elburg fails to land.
Van Elburg misses with a punch on the inside.
Ruiz blocks an uppercut.
A head punch on the inside from Van Elburg fails to land.
Van Elburg swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Ruiz blocking some punches.
Van Elburg throws a punch but it's blocked by Ruiz.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Ruiz.
Ruiz blocking some punches.
Ruiz blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Ruiz blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Van Elburg swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Van Elburg swings wildly with an uppercut but Ruiz uses good head movement to avoid it.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Van Elburg has a couple of punches blocked by Ruiz.
Van Elburg has a couple of punches blocked by Ruiz.
Ruiz blocks a punch to the side of the head.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Ruiz.
Van Elburg lands a body shot in the clinch.
Van Elburg misses with a punch on the inside.
Ruiz blocking some punches.
Van Elburg swings wildly with an uppercut but Ruiz uses good head movement to avoid it.
Van Elburg swings wildly with an uppercut but Ruiz uses good head movement to avoid it.
A head punch on the inside from Van Elburg fails to land.
Van Elburg misses with a short punch on the inside.
Ruiz seems to have recovered his senses.
Van Elburg keeps control of Ruiz as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Van Elburg lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Van Elburg throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Ruizs head.
Nice body punch from Van Elburg.
Van Elburg working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Van Elburg lands a shot to the body.
A short body shot lands from Van Elburg as the two fighters clinch.
Van Elburg makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Van Elburg is working Ruiz over against the cage.
A right handed body shot lands from Van Elburg.
Van Elburg lands a right hand that snaps the head of Ruiz backwards.
Van Elburg lands an uppercut in the clinch that drops Ruiz to his knees! Van Elburg keeps firing more shots against his stricken opponent and the referee jumps in to save him!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:08 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Vincent Van Elburg!
A relieved looking Vincent Van Elburg thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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RATING
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