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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Atlas Raita (ranked 1895 p4p, 5113 weight class) and Michael Fraiberg (ranked 251 p4p, 492 weight class). Fraiberg has chosen It’s A Shameful Thing, Lobster Head (Too Many Limes) as his entrance music. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.
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Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Granite chin |
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Olympic wrestler
World class MT
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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 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Atlas Raita!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Michael Fraiberg!
The judges for this bout are Elvis Blanc, Ian Loll and Trevor Gratis.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Raita bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
As Fraiberg backs away, Raita returns fire with a leg kick that just misses.
Raita misses with a kick to the body.
Fraiberg showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Raita.
Fraiberg is loading up here, looking for a big counter of his own.
Raita pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Raita crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Fraiberg - the referee stops the clock and Raita gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Fraiberg. Raita manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
A punch lands to the side of Raita 's head but he takes it in his stride.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Fraiberg throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Raita.
Fraiberg misses with an uppercut
and Raita counters with a right hand to the body.
A head kick misses from Fraiberg.
Raita looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Fraiberg staying out of range there.
Fraiberg throws an overhand right that lands on Raita's shoulder, as Raita tries to avoid the shot.
Raita blocks a head kick by Fraiberg.
Raita went nuts there looking for a big combo counter but none of the flurry connected.
Raita drops Fraiberg with a beautiful combination! Fraiberg stares up at his opponent, who ushers him back to his feet - Raita is looking for the KO!
Fraiberg is rocked!
It looks like Michael Fraiberg has been cut.
Raita sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Raita cracks Fraiberg with a nasty uppercut that draws ooohs from the crowd and sends Fraiberg tumbling backwards onto the mat. He tries to recover but Raita pounces and lands a hail of unanswered strikes that forces the referee to step in to end the fight! Fraiberg is not happy but he gave the referee no choice!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Atlas Raita!
During a confident post fight interview, Atlas Raita 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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