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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Yago Nascimento (ranked 713 p4p, 955 weight class) and Dimitri Svyatogor (ranked 88 p4p, 123 weight class). Nascimento comes to the cage accompanied by Aggressive War Epic Music Collection!. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.
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Great wrestler
World class boxer
Granite chin |
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Olympic wrestler
World class boxer
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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 32 - 17 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Yago Nascimento!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 35 - 27 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Dimitri Svyatogor!
The judges for this bout are Colin Fray, Jeff Smith and Micheangelo Fripello.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A head kick misses from Nascimento.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Svyatogor! But no joy.
Dimitri Svyatogor seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Nascimento defending well as Svyatogor loads up on a big left hand.
Nascimento has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Svyatogor stooping low to avoid any incoming strikes and then lunges in with an uppercut come cross that lands flush.
Nascimento lands a nice hook to Svyatogor's body. Svyatogor takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Svyatogor tries to clinch but fails miserably
and Nascimento counters with an inside leg kick.
Nascimento misses with a hook. Svyatogor ducked under it nicely.
A countering left hand to the body from Svyatogor misses.
Nascimento misses with a hook. Svyatogor ducked under it nicely.
Svyatogor swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
A left lands for Svyatogor.
Svyatogor takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
An inside leg kick from Nascimento misses.
Nascimento jabs at Svyatogor's body.
Svyatogor lands a slapping body shot.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Nascimento throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Svyatogor looks like he wants to counter punch here.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Svyatogor cracks Nascimento with an open hand slap.
Nascimento throws a lazy uppercut
and Svyatogor makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
Svyatogor throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Nascimento throws a leg kick that is checked
and Svyatogor counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Svyatogor misses with a hook.
It looked like Nascimento was trying to counter with a body shot coming off that last attack from Svyatogor.
Svyatogor throws a body punch but Nascimento moves out of range.
Nascimento half committed to a counter leg kick.
Svyatogor connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Nascimento's hands.
It looks like Yago Nascimento has been cut.
A big left from Svyatogor misses.
Nascimento swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Svyatogor throws a lazy uppercut
and Nascimento counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Nascimento slips under a jab from Svyatogor.
Svyatogor misses with an uppercut. Nascimento saw that one coming.
Svyatogor digs a good body shot into Nascimento's ribs.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nascimento tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Svyatogor throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Nascimento sees it coming and avoids it easily.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Svyatogor blocks a leg kick.
Svyatogor looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Nascimento misses with a looping left.
Svyatogor cracks Nascimento with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Svyatogor feints and then cracks Nascimento's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Nascimento down.
A telegraphed right hand from Svyatogor misses the target.
Nascimento misses with an uppercut
and Svyatogor counters with a stiff right hand.
Svyatogor lands a jab to the nose.
Svyatogor closes the distance but Nascimento moves to the side
and Nascimento counters with a right hand to the body.
Svyatogor gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Svyatogor connects with a single shot there.
Svyatogor keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Svyatogor jabbing away but nothing is landing.
It looked like Nascimento was trying to counter with a body shot coming off that last attack from Svyatogor.
Nascimento scores with a hook to the body. Svyatogor takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
Svyatogor takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Svyatogor is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
Nascimento thows a left - swing and a miss!
Nascimento dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Svyatogor. That did some damage!
Svyatogor throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Nascimento on the side of the head.
Svyatogor darts in and out, connecting with a jab.
Svyatogor swings and misses with a hook to the body.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nascimento goes for a spinning back kick but it misses.
Svyatogor missing with a left hand there. Nascimento was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Nascimento swung with a counter right hand that didn't connect.
Svyatogor just misses with a punch to the body.
Svyatogor lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Svyatogor avoids the body shot from Nascimento.
Nascimento throws a leg kick
and Svyatogor counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
Nascimento needs to keep his hands up - Svyatogor had a free shot at his head there.
Nascimento is really struggling to find his range with his punches. Svyatogor's reach advantage is clearly causing him problems.
Nascimento slips under a jab.
Nascimento looked to counter that last move with a leg kick but didn't pull the trigger.
Nascimento ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Svyatogor lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Nascimento throws a low kick but Svyatogor moves out of range easily.
Nascimento misses with a hook
and Svyatogor counters with a big right hand! Oh Nascimento is in trouble here! Svyatogor follows up with more strikes and that's it! The ref has stopped it!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Dimitri Svyatogor!
Dimitri Svyatogor very nearly forgot to thank Brooklyn Apothecary amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
RATING
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