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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between tito cruz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tony Smiff (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). cruz comes to the cage accompanied by yes. The crowd seem to be enjoying Smiff's choice of entrance music: New born. Tony Smiff has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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187 cm
25
155 lbs
5 - 2 - 0 |
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180 cm
25
149 lbs
10 - 8 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Experienced |
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BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Determined |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division. Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of
5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, tito cruz! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
10 - 8 - 0, fighting out of London, Tony Smiff! The judges for this bout are Donald Grub, Paul Tew and James Glass.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Smiff gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Smiff shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it. Smiff throws a right and a left that both miss. Smiff drops his hands momentarily and cruz takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head. A jab from cruz finds it's way through Smiff's defenses. cruz keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Smiff slips a jab from cruz. Some wild striking there from Smiff.
A telegraphed right hand from Smiff misses the target. cruz fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
cruz lands with a right hand. Nice defenses there by cruz. cruz gets the takedown into side control. The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so! cruz working the head and body with strikes. cruz tries to land with some ground and pound but misses. cruz sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Smiff is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
cruz misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
That's one minute gone in the round. cruz in side control, throwing shots but Smiff defends. You can see the frustration on Smiff's face as cruz controls the position. cruz throws a strike aimed at the side of Smiff's head but Smiff avoids it well. cruz throws a strike aimed at the side of Smiff's head but Smiff avoids it well. cruz decides to stand back up. Smiff swings and misses with a hook to the body.
cruz avoids the body shot from Smiff.
cruz cracks Smiff with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd. Smiff throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Smiff throws a combination that misses and cruz counters with a quick right hand to the jaw. Tony Smiff is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs. Smiff looks gassed! Smiff misses with a series of wild punches.
cruz lands a left and a right that send Smiff crashing to the mat, dazed. cruz thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!
Smiff is rocked! Smiff walks straight into a right hand from cruz - that's dropped him! cruz jumps into mount and starts pounding away - can he finish?! More strikes go undefended and the referee has to dive in to save Smiff from any more punishment! Smiff complains about the stoppage but falls over as he tries to stand back up, so it was clearly a good stoppage.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:04 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). tito cruz!
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G |
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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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FIGHT
RATING
92% |
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