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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ricardo Rio (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Peter La Fleur (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.
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187 cm
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207 lbs
0 - 0 - 0 |
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200 cm
19
219 lbs
3 - 2 - 0 |
BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Good chin |
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BJJ White Belt
Good kicks
Granite chin |
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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
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ricardo Rio! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Peter La Fleur! The judges for this bout are Luis Engracia, Thiago Cunha and Alexandre Firmino.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! A left and a right from La Fleur both land. Nice combination. Rio slips a jab and a cross from La Fleur.
La Fleur looks to score with a combo but nothing lands. Rio throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and La Fleur counters with a slapping leg kick. That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Rio crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from La Fleur - the referee stops the clock and Rio gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says La Fleur. Rio manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes. La Fleur throws a leg kick which misses Rio's front leg but catches the back leg as Rio tries to avoid it. Peter La Fleur seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout. Rio fails with an attempt to clinch.
A chopping leg kick lands by La Fleur. La Fleur throws a nice outside leg kick. La Fleur throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Rio's head. Rio dodges the punch combination from La Fleur.
La Fleur lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Rio circles away quickly and effectively. La Fleur falls off balance throwing a combination
and Rio counters with a takedown into side control. Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show! La Fleur is positioning himself to get back to half guard. Rio working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
That's one minute gone in the round. La Fleur is trying to get back to half guard. Rio is pausing for a moment. What's he doing? It looks like he's clearing his nose. Oh dude! He's shot a load of snot all down La Fleur's shoulder. That is not cool. Rio tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though. Rio is breathing heavily. Rio is looking to take a break and control but La Fleur is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom. Rio working away.
That's two minutes gone in the round. Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it. La Fleur is looking for a sweep. La Fleur really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Rio. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up. La Fleur misses with the combination.
A combination from La Fleur does no damage. Ouch! a nice leg kick from La Fleur, right into the meat.
La Fleur lands with a slapping head kick. A chopping leg kick lands by La Fleur. La Fleur has managed to clinch.
La Fleur breaks from the clinch.
Rio takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
La Fleur lands a jab. Then a cross. Then finally a nice hook to the body. Good work there by La Fleur. La Fleur displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination. La Fleur misses with a wild combination.
La Fleur misses with a series of wild punches.
That's three minutes gone in the round. Rio has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him. La Fleur punishes Rio's body with a nice straight punch. La Fleur scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Rio takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
La Fleur is working the combinations to good effect here. Rio is on the wrong end of a nice combination from La Fleur.
Rio is rocked! La Fleur throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Rio. A solid leg kick lands there for La Fleur.
La Fleur misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
La Fleur lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise. La Fleur lands a big head kick that sends Rio to the canvas! La Fleur follows up with strikes from the mount that forces the ref to step in and stop the fight!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Peter La Fleur!
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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
87% |
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