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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between tracy mcgrady (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Giorgios Karasids (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.
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205 lbs
2 - 8 - 0 |
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212 lbs
1 - 3 - 0 |
BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Experienced |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Determined |
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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
2 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, tracy mcgrady!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Giorgios Karasids!
The judges for this bout are Thiago Cunha, Seu Braga and Alexandre Firmino.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
mcgrady throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Karasids sees it coming and avoids it easily.
mcgrady moves in looking to clinch but Karasids pushes him off.
mcgrady shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Karasids sprawls well. Karasids wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. mcgrady gets slowly back to his feet.
mcgrady tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Karasids shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
mcgrady takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Karasids controlling his opponent.
Karasids scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish mcgrady?
mcgrady is desperately trying to improve his position but Karasids has a good base and remains in mount.
Karasids tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
mcgrady wants to hold on but Karasids pushes him away.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
Karasids moves into side control, trying to work for a kimura. That looks painful! Will he finish!!?? No, mcgrady has worked his arm free - good work by mcgrady!
Karasids landing strikes.
That's one minute gone in the round.
mcgrady tries to bench press Karasids off him but Karasids keeps the position.
mcgrady manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.
Karasids working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Karasids is figuring out what he wants to do next.
Karasids wants to pass to mount but mcgrady is defending the position.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Karasids lands a nice short elbow.
Karasids seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but mcgrady does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
mcgrady trying to control here.
Karasids drops an elbow to the side of mcgrady's head.
mcgrady is breathing heavily.
Karasids works his way into side control.
Karasids tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Karasids has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Check out the look on Karasids's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Karasids 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 mcgrady's shoulder. That is not cool.
Karasids in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
mcgrady knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Karasids on the ground.
Karasids controlling from side mount.
Karasids scores with a couple of short elbows.
Karasids in side control lands a decent elbow.
mcgrady is trying to escape the position but Karasids is controlling the position.
Karasids should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
mcgrady tries to get back to half guard but can't.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Karasids working the ground and pound.
Karasids working the body and head with strikes.
mcgrady can't do much from the bottom here.
Karasids works to advance to full mount. mcgrady defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
Karasids sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Karasids landing shots from mount.
Karasids sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Karasids dominating with strikes here.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Karasids pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Karasids lands a big elbow.
Karasids controlling the pace for now.
Karasids looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.
Karasids content just to control the position here.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Karasids avoids the attempt from mcgrady to control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Giorgios Karasids dominated that round.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.
mcgrady has his takedown stuffed
and mcgrady takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
mcgrady misses with a head kick.
mcgrady clinches but Karasids breaks the clinch
and Karasids makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
tracy mcgrady seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
mcgrady throws a left and a right that both miss
and Karasids counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Karasids lands with a punch from half guard.
Karasids stalling.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
mcgrady taking some punishment here, with Karasids in his half guard.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Karasids controlling the action here.
Karasids maintaining the dominant position here and is working for a kimura. He's locked it up! mcgrady could be in real trouble here! He's trying to wriggle out but Karasids has cracked it and mcgrady is screaming in pain - he's tapped out! Great finish by Karasids!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:26 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Giorgios Karasids!
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energy
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hype
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