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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Otto Karalexis (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Malcolm Stumps (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Otto Karalexis had a look across the cage there at his opponent. He definitely means business
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194 cm
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211 lbs
6 - 5 - 0 |
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183 cm
22
215 lbs
1 - 1 - 0 |
BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
KO power |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Solid 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
6 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Otto Karalexis! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Malcolm Stumps! The judges for this bout are Anthony Taglia, John Kavanagh and Russell Pearce.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Stumps gets in close and instigates a clinch. Karalexis looking to slow down the pace here. Stumps breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat. Karalexis scores with a nice body kick.
Karalexis feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Stumps's calf. Stumps tries to clinch up. Stumps fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Karalexis checks it well. Stumps closes the distance and clinches. Karalexis drops down looking for an ankle pick but Stumps pulls his leg out and moves away.
Karalexis throws a half hearted mid kick. Stumps bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control. Stumps working the body and head with strikes. The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing. Stumps lands a decent elbow from side control. Stumps misses with the ground and pound. Karalexis is trying to get back to half guard. Karalexis parries the strikes from Stumps easily there. Stumps is wary of posturing up too much because it might enable Karalexis to escape.
Stumps in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows. This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff! Karalexis dodges the ground and pound from Stumps. The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
That's one minute gone in the round. Karalexis gives up the full mount - oops, sloppy defensive grappling there! Karalexis knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Stumps on the ground. Stumps working the ground and pound effectively.
Karalexis is trying desperately to improve position. Poor strikes thrown by Stumps there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Karalexis is squirming around, avoiding Stumps's attempts to control the action. Karalexis in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head. A nice elbow there by Stumps.
Karalexis is rocked! Karalexis is squirming around, avoiding Stumps's attempts to control the action. Oh Karalexis is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!! Stumps postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Karalexis bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Stumps and the fight is over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:01 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Malcolm Stumps!
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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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