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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Ismael Santos (ranked 25055 p4p, 3155 weight class) and Jose Cuervo (ranked 339 p4p, 250 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Cuervo's choice of entrance music: The Green Man. Ismael Santos could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Jose Cuervo's chin.
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BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
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Brawler
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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 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ismael Santos!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Jose Cuervo!
The judges for this bout are Eddie Farnsworth, Columbo Gatti and John Kavanagh.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Santos tries to clinch up but Cuervo circles away and keeps his distance.
Santos moves out of range of the strikes.
Cuervo misses with a body shot.
A looping hook to the body misses from Cuervo. Santos does a little dance to reset his feet.
Santos throws a big counter combination but Cuervo scrambles out of danger and avoids any damage.
Santos uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Cuervo.
Santos tries to close the distance and clinch but Cuervo swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Santos throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Cuervo.
Cuervo gets caught napping as Santos dives in and scores a takedown. Cuervo manages to retain guard.
Cuervo keeping moving, preventing Santos from controlling successfully.
Our spies down at at Alpha Brasil inform us that Cuervo has really been working on his submissions in the buildup to this fight. Will it pay off?
Santos stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Cuervo swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Santos scoring with some ground and pound.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Cuervo is working actively off his back, looking to secure an arm or perhaps work for a triangle.
Cuervo is trying to keep Santos in close.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Cuervo looking for subs off his back but Santos has passed one foot through into half guard.
Santos trying to control the action but Cuervo is working from the bottom.
Santos postures up and decides to stand up, from the half guard. The ref calls for Cuervo to stand up.
Santos doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Cuervo counters with a straight punch to the midsection.
Cuervo misses the shot to the body.
Santos drives through with a takedown into guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santos keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Cuervo's head.
Santos trying to control but Cuervo is working from the bottom.
Santos throwing strikes but missing.
Santos lying in Cuervo's guard like a wet fish here, stalling away. Cuervo decides he's had enough of all that nonsense - he escapes his hips and locks up an armbar! Wow, that was slick! Santos taps! This one is aaaaaaaaaaall over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:37 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Jose Cuervo!
A very excited looking Jose Cuervo rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.
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energy
A | B |
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hype
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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RATING
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