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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Islam Makhachev (ranked 3678 p4p, 5253 weight class) and Giovanni Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Man, I cannot wait for this one!
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3 - 9 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
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BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
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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 5 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Islam Makhachev!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Giovanni Santos!
The judges for this bout are Ben Zyskovitsi, Marco Blurstr�m and Anni Minnem�ki.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Santos's corner calls for a 1, 2 combination and Santos duly obliges.
Santos stuffs the takedown attempt from Makhachev. Makhachev gets slowly back to his feet.
A combination from Makhachev does no damage.
Santos scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Santos connects with a looping right hand.
A nice combination there by Santos.
Santos moves into the clinch.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Santos escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Makhachev misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Santos.
Santos is looking to slow Makhachev down with leg kicks.
Santos gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Makhachev takes a knee right on the jaw!
Makhachev tries to circle away but Santos has him pinned against the cage.
We've been hearing reports that Makhachev has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Santos landing knees to the head.
Nice elbow from Santos.
Santos breaks the clinch.
Santos throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Makhachev stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Giovanni Santos is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Makhachev tries to drive through with a takedown attempt but Santos defends well and Makhachev ends up having to push Santos into the cage where they will battle it out in the clinch.
Makhachev is breathing heavily.
Santos pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Santos rushes Makhachev and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Santos landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Santos breaks from the clinch.
Santos scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Santos clinches up against the cage.
Santos pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Santos takes the fight into the clinch.
Knees to the body from Santos.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Santos lands an elbow that stopped Makhachev in his tracks for a moment.
Santos lands a damaging elbow.
Santos manages to break the clinch.
Santos closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
A hook to the body from Santos.
Santos breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
The fight moves into the clinch position.
Santos with a knee to the head.
Makhachev is rocked!
Makhachev takes an elbow to the forehead.
Oh Makhachev is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Santos lands a nice knee to the body.
Clinched against the cage, Santos lands a big elbow that drops Makhachev! The ref dives in to save him from more shots - Makhachev is complaining that he's OK but he was done.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:52 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Giovanni Santos!
In defeat, Islam Makhachev stepped up to the mic, saying 'I wanna thank my opponent for fighting me and I can't wait to fight you again brother'.
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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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