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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Marco Rua (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Khris Murphey (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rua comes to the cage accompanied by KILLER performed by Drake. Murphey has chosen Back in Black as his entrance music. Fingers crossed for an exciting fight - I'm sure both fighters are looking for a nice under the table bonus!
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213 lbs
5 - 4 - 0 |
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190 cm
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211 lbs
5 - 5 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
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Good takedowns
Counter striker
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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 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Marco Rua!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
5 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Khris Murphey!
The judges for this bout are Thiago Cunha, Alexandre Firmino and Seu Braga.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Rua pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way.
Murphey moves out of range of the strikes.
Rua tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Murphey uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Rua.
Rua leaves Murphey with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Murphey bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
The crowd cheers as Murphey lands an impressive looking overhand right. Rua doesn't seem phased though.
Nice body punch from Rua.
Murphey looks gassed!
Rua throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Murphey on the side of the head.
Rua pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Rua misses with a straight right.
Rua lands with an uppercut that bounces Murphey off the cage and back into rage.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Rua throws a nice looking combination but Murphey bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Rua drops his shoulder and cracks Murphey with a huge uppercut! Murphey goes down! Can Rua finish him?
Murphey is rocked!
Rua is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Murphey is still in real trouble! Can Rua finish him?
Murphey seems to have recovered his senses.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Rua's ground tactics aren't going to win him many fans. Let's hope he's got fireworks for us if he gets back to his feet because he's not doing much on the ground.
Rua seems to have a rather negative gameplan on the ground. He seems keen to just score the takedown and hold down Murphey for as long as he can get away with.
The referee decides to stand the fighters back up, due to lack of activity on the part of Marco Rua.
Rua misses with a head kick.
A big left from Rua misses.
Rua scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
A big left from Rua misses.
Murphey swats away the attempt to clinch by Rua.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Rua scores with the left hand. Murphey knows he should have avoided that one.
Murphey moves out of range as Rua strikes.
Rua stuffs the takedown attempt from Murphey. Murphey gets slowly back to his feet.
Rua throws a looping overhand right but Murphey ducks down to avoid it.
Murphey ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Murphey fails to land the takedown.
Marco Rua has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Khris Murphey.
Rua misses with a double jab.
Rua tries to clinch but Murphey is having none of it.
Murphey staying out of range there.
Rua tries to close the distance and clinch but Murphey swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Whack! Rua lands a heavy head kick that drops Murphey. The ref tackles Rua to stop the fight - a great save by the referee because Murphey was done.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:09 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Head Kick). Marco Rua!
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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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