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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Charles Tucker (ranked 400 p4p, 159 weight class) and Wusan Ritori (ranked 56 p4p, 25 weight class). Tucker's entrance music is Faith of The Heart. A fine choice. Ritori comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Woo-Hah!! Got You All In Check kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! The crowd giving both fighters a great reception on their way into the arena. That's good to see.
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187 cm 36 210 29 - 15 - 0 |
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189 cm 30 209 15 - 5 - 0 |
Good wrestling World class boxer Granite chin |
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Olympic wrestler World class boxer Granite chin |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division. Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of 29 - 15 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Charles Tucker! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of 15 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Wusan Ritori! The judges for this bout are Donald Grub, Richard Clark and Andrew Berry.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Tucker ducks under a wild hook from Ritori. Tucker looks to land a left hand but Ritori moved out of range nicely. Tucker throws an off balance right hand
and Ritori makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick. Ritori with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Charles Tucker seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout. Nice body kick there by Ritori. Tucker on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Tucker is breathing heavily. Tucker takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Tucker scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one. Ritori swings for the body but Tucker moves out of range.
Tucker is looking to counter punch. A decent looking body kick lands there for Ritori. Ritori thows a body kick. Tucker tries to catch it but that hurt him. Ritori fakes the leg kick and cracks Tucker in the body. The crowd are loving this. Great action here. Ritori throws a nice inside leg kick. Tucker misses with a looping right.
That's one minute gone in the round. Good leg kick by Ritori. Tucker throws a hook to the side of Ritori's head but Ritori sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully. Ritori scores with a kick to the body.
Nice uppercut there from Ritori. Tucker misses with an uppercut. Tucker has been working on his boxing with his coaches at The House Of Pain in the buildup to the fight. Ritori scores with a kick to the midsection. Tucker on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot. That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Tucker crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Ritori - the referee stops the clock and Tucker gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Ritori. Tucker manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes. Tucker is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Ritori lands with a right hand.
It looks like Charles Tucker has been cut. This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff! Ritori is looking to slow Tucker down with leg kicks. Jab by Ritori. Tucker misses with an uppercut
and Ritori counters with a straight right hand.
That's two minutes gone in the round. Ritori lands a big uppercut and Tucker crumbles to the floor! The ref thinks about stopping the fight but Tucker looks OK. Ritori waves Tucker back to his feet! Tucker misses the jab. Ritori feints with a left and delivers a massive head kick! Tucker collapses like a ragdoll! Game over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:19 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Wusan Ritori! During a confident post fight interview, Wusan Ritori thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
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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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