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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Stringer Bell (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Egill Skallagrimsson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Skallagrimsson's choice of entrance music: Hoeremeisje by EyeMJR. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.
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185 cm
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213 lbs
11 - 1 - 0 |
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190 cm
23
206 lbs
10 - 4 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Very strong |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world! Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of
11 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Stringer Bell! And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
10 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Egill Skallagrimsson! The judges for this bout are , and .
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Bell ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Skallagrimsson moves away. Bell avoids a punch combination nicely.
Skallagrimsson throws a looping overhand right but Bell ducks down to avoid it. Bell fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Skallagrimsson manages to avoid it. Skallagrimsson fails to land with a series of punches.
Bell lands with an overhand left. Bell misses with an uppercut. Bell takes a swing at Skallagrimsson's ribcage but misses. Skallagrimsson tries to bum rush Bell with a series of wild strikes but Bell uses good footwork to avoid the assault. Bell moves into range and throws a lovely three punch combination. Bell slips a jab and a cross from Skallagrimsson.
Skallagrimsson misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Bell.
Skallagrimsson is looking to score with low kicks. Skallagrimsson throws a body kick that misses. A big right from Skallagrimsson misses. Skallagrimsson throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
That's one minute gone in the round. Skallagrimsson misses with a double jab
and Bell counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt. Skallagrimsson pushing out the jab but it's not landing. Bell checks a low kick. Bone on bone - not my idea of a good time. Skallagrimsson takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it. Skallagrimsson throws a left and a right that both miss
and Bell counters into the clinch. Nicely done. Skallagrimsson escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Skallagrimsson gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Skallagrimsson misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Skallagrimsson misses with a combination
enabling Bell to counter with a crisp jab. Skallagrimsson looks gassed! Skallagrimsson lands with a nice combination. Bell backs away looking to recover. Egill Skallagrimsson seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout. Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd. Skallagrimsson takes a shot right to the bread basket. Bell lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!
Bell lands a right hook to the body.
Bell circles and sees the opportunity to plant his feet and throw a really nice straight left hand that drops Skallagrimsson to the canvas! Skallagrimsson doesn't know where he is but he's trying to survive - Bell keeps piling on the pressure and forces the referee to step in! This one is aaaaaall over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:05 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Stringer Bell! Stringer Bell retains his light heavyweight title!
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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RATING
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