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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Matteo Ruffy (ranked 1655 p4p, 2242 weight class) and Jacob Legend (ranked 168 p4p, 225 weight class). Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the lightweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Matteo Ruffy!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Jacob Legend!
The judges for this bout are James Ackerman, Steven Brown and Sam Margolis.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Legend takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Ruffy darts in and out, connecting with a jab.
Legend fails with the takedown.
Ruffy went nuts there looking for a big combo counter but none of the flurry connected.
Ruffy fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Legend, pushing him back against the cage.
Ruffy lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Ruffy lands a right hand.
Ruffy scores with a shot to the side of Legend's head.
Ruffy pushes Legend back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Ruffy lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Ruffy lands with a short shot to the head.
Ruffy lands a hook to the side of the head.
A short right from Ruffy on the inside.
Ruffy lands a body shot in the clinch.
A shot in the inside from Ruffy.
Ruffy is working Legend over against the cage.
That's one minute gone in the round.
A short left from Ruffy.
We're hearing some news coming in from back stage. It's official - Legend has eaten all the pies!
A shot in the inside from Ruffy.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Ruffy.
Ruffy lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Legend.
Legend looks winded!
Ruffy working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Ruffy lands a left hand.
Legend is working for takedown but Ruffy is calmly controlling the position for now.
A nice left hand lands by Ruffy.
Ruffy lands a left hand.
Ruffy lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Ruffy lands with a light punch inside.
Ruffy lands with a light punch inside.
Legend takes a shot to the head.
Ruffy scores with a nice hook to the head.
Ruffy lands a nice uppercut.
Ruffy lands with a short shot to the head.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ruffy lands with a right to the head.
Ruffy lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Ruffy softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
A short right from Ruffy.
A body shot lands from Ruffy.
Ruffy lands a right hand that snaps the head of Legend backwards.
Ruffy softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Ruffy lands a left hand.
A nice right hand lands inside from Ruffy.
Ruffy gets through Legend's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Ruffy pushes Legend back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
A shot in the inside from Ruffy.
Ruffy working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Ruffy lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
A short right from Ruffy.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Ruffy lands with a right to the head.
Ruffy scores with a shot to the side of Legend's head.
Ruffy lands a body shot.
Ruffy lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Still in the clinch, Ruffy scores with a nice short uppercut.
Ruffy lands a nice uppercut.
Ruffy gets through Legend's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Ruffy lands a body punch.
Ruffy lands an uppercut.
A short right from Ruffy on the inside.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Ruffy lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
A right hand to the body from Ruffy.
Ruffy lands a hook that snaps the head of Legend backwards.
Ruffy lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Ruffy working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Legend's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
A short right from Ruffy on the inside.
Ruffy lands a nice shot to the body.
Ruffy lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Ruffy lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Legend backwards.
Ruffy lands a left hand.
Nice body punch from Ruffy - that landed with a thud.
Ruffy lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Ruffy lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Legend backwards.
Ruffy scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Ruffy working some nice short punches in the clinch.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Ruffy lands a left hand.
A nice right hand lands inside from Ruffy.
A short left from Ruffy.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.
Matteo Ruffy dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.
Ruffy lands a big right hand that sends Legend crashing to the mat! Ruffy stays standing though and waves Legend back to his feet!
Legend is still looking wobbly from the end of the last round!
Legend walks straight into a right hand from Ruffy - that's dropped him! Ruffy jumps into mount and starts pounding away - can he finish?! More strikes go undefended and the referee has to dive in to save Legend from any more punishment! Legend complains about the stoppage but falls over as he tries to stand back up, so it was clearly a good stoppage.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:10 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Matteo Ruffy!
Matteo Ruffy retains his lightweight title!
Matteo Ruffy took to the mic in his post fight interview and said 'I want to thank all the fans and, specially, Legend's girlfriend sitting over there and winking at me the whole time. It's time to show her what a man can do outside the cage.
I'll call you, baby!'.
Jacob Legend spoke after the fight, saying 'u got lucky ruff. that was a fluke. don't worry ill be back'.
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