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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Thomas Rose (ranked 158 p4p, 981 weight class) and Mike Boomer (ranked 20 p4p, 121 weight class). Rose comes to the cage accompanied by Raining Blood. Thomas Rose could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Mike Boomer's chin.
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Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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World class MT
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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 14 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Thomas Rose!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 24 - 11 - 0, fighting out of New York, Mike Boomer!
The judges for this bout are Yuuki Gou, Shigeki Fujiwara and Shigeki Sano.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rose on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Boomer throws a poor cross that misses
and Rose connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Rose on the wrong end of a nice hook.
A solid body kick from Boomer.
A thudding body kick lands there by Rose!
Rose with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Rose slips under a jab.
Boomer has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Boomer closes the distance and clinches.
Rose throws a punch but it's blocked by Boomer.
Rose wants to get back to striking at distance but Boomer won't allow it.
Rose tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Boomer lands a left hand.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Still in the clinch, Rose scores with a nice short uppercut.
Boomer tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Rose throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Boomer blocks it with crossed arms.
Boomer tries to land knees in the clinch but Rose avoids the damage to the body.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Boomer putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Rose in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Boomer lands a knee to the body.
Boomer misses with a short punch on the inside.
Boomer goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Rose avoiding damage as Boomer throws knees to the body.
Boomer lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Boomer throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Rose working aggressively here.
Rose tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
I was talking to Rose's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Boomer pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Rose tries to break free but Boomer pushes him back against the cage.
Boomer can't find room to land a body shot as Rose controls the action.
Rose dodges an elbow strike from Boomer.
Rose makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Rose misses with the head strike.
Rose lands with a left to the head.
Boomer managing to block the knees to the body from Rose.
Boomer tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Rose tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Boomer avoids it.
With the fighters up against the cage, Boomer throws an elbow but misses.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Rose misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Boomer.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Rose lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
It looks like Mike Boomer has been cut.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Boomer just misses with a elbow thrown towards Rose's brow.
Rose lands a left hand.
Rose tries to land a knee to the head but Boomer blocks with his arms.
A short uppercut from Boomer.
A nice left hand lands by Boomer.
Boomer throws a punch but it's blocked by Rose.
Rose breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Rose takes a head kick and keeps coming.
It looks like Thomas Rose has been cut.
Boomer checks a leg kick.
Boomer doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
Boomer misses with a body shot.
Boomer has closed the distance and engaged Rose in a clinch.
Nice body punch from Rose - that landed with a thud.
Boomer blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Rose using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Boomer has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Boomer tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Rose's elbow.
Boomer misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Rose.
Boomer prevents a body shot from Rose.
Rose dodges an elbow strike from Boomer.
Rose blocking some punches.
Boomer looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Boomer blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Boomer tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Rose avoids it.
Rose misses with a hook from the clinch.
Boomer takes a knee to the side of the body.
Boomer looks winded!
Boomer managing to block the knees to the body from Rose.
Rose blocking some punches.
Rose pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Boomer closes the distance and pushes Rose back into the cage.
Rose lands a body shot in the clinch.
Rose looking to throw knees to the head but Boomer is blocking nicely.
Rose looking to throw knees to the head but Boomer is blocking nicely.
Boomer misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Rose.
Rose lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Rose blocking some punches.
Rose with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Rose tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Rose blocks an elbow strike from Boomer.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Rose avoids a wild elbow strike from Boomer.
Rose lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Rose breaks the clinch.
Boomer misses the shot to the body.
Rose tries to keep at a distance but Boomer has taken the fight into the clinch.
A left hand lands to the body for Rose.
Boomer throws a punch but it's blocked by Rose.
Boomer tries to land knees in the clinch but Rose avoids the damage to the body.
Rose lands a right hand that snaps the head of Boomer backwards.
Rose tries to land a knee to the head but Boomer blocks with his arms.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Rose.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Rose lands on the inside with an uppercut.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.
That was a close round but I would say that Thomas Rose will probably get the nod.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!
Boomer ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Boomer scores with a leg kick.
Boomer throws a nice inside leg kick.
Boomer takes the fight into the clinch.
Boomer trying to land knees to the body.
A left hand lands to the body for Rose.
Rose scores with a nice hook to the head.
A right hand to the body from Rose.
Rose lands an uppercut.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Rose pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Boomer attempts a low kick but it misses it's target.
An attempted straight right counter from Rose misses the target.
Rose misses with a looping right.
A looping hook to the body misses from Boomer. Rose does a little dance to reset his feet.
Rose is looking to counter with a shot to the body.
Boomer is breathing heavily.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Rose scores with a shot to the body.
Rose sends Boomer crashing to the mat with a devastating uppercut! Rose is motioning to the referee to let Boomer up. He wants to try and finish this one on the feet!
Boomer is rocked!
Rose throws a nice inside leg kick.
Boomer is still on wobbly legs! Can Rose finish him?
A big left from Boomer misses.
Rose was looking to counter that last move with a shot to the body but he didn't commit.
Boomer seems to have recovered his senses.
Rose circles away before darting back in with a big straight right hand. It connects beautifully and sends Boomer tumbling to the canvas! He's out cold! Rose wins by KO!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:36 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Thomas Rose!
Thomas Rose seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.
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