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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between William Ernest Henley (ranked 3171 p4p, 2423 weight class) and Lance Hodges (ranked 318 p4p, 264 weight class). Lance Hodges has the eye of the tiger tonight.
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3 - 1 - 0 |
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265
2 - 4 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
KO power |
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Excellent 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 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, William Ernest Henley!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Lance Hodges!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, George Francis and Chris Downing.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Henley stooping low to avoid any incoming strikes and then lunges in with an uppercut come cross that lands flush.
Hodges fails with an attempt to clinch.
Hodges throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Hodges 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.
Nice body punch from Henley.
Hodges throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Nice uppercut there from Hodges.
Hodges misses with a hook to the body
and Henley counters with a nice double leg into side control. Hodges won't be happy with that.
Hodges managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Henley.
Henley working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Hodges can do anything to dispel that myth.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Henley lands a nice forearm strike.
Hodges takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Henley scores with punches from side control.
Henley misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Hodges really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Henley. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Henley misses with the ground and pound.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Hodges stops Henley from passing to mount.
Henley advances nicely into full mount.
Henley thowing shots but they're missing.
Henley controlling his opponent.
Hodges is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Henley lands with some strikes.
Hodges is in a horrible position here. Henley smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Henley tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Henley landing strikes from the mount and Hodges is in trouble!
Henley controlling from the full mount.
Hodges tries to reverse the position but Henley maintains control.
Henley tries to control but Hodges wriggling away.
Henley lands with some strikes.
Henley fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Henley takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
The referee warns Hodges that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
It looks like Lance Hodges has been cut.
Henley postures up and throws a big right hand. BOOM! Right on the button! Hodges is out cold - huge knockout for Henley!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). William Ernest Henley!
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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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