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Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ben Askren (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Damien Cooler (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Damien Cooler will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.
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170 lbs
5 - 2 - 0 |
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181 lbs
5 - 1 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Brawler
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BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Ben Askren!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Damien Cooler!
The judges for this bout are Radbod Blank, Paul Aken and Aafke Stam.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Askren fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
Cooler explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Askren shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as Cooler sprawls well. Cooler wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. Askren gets slowly back to his feet.
Askren scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Askren lands a nice forearm strike.
You can see the frustration on Cooler's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
Askren sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Cooler is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Askren grinds an elbow into Cooler's temple.
Askren in side control lands a decent elbow.
Check out the look on Askren's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Cooler takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
Cooler takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Askren throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Askren lands an elbow.
Askren creates some space and throws a big elbow, but Cooler sees it coming and moves his head just enough to avoid the strike.
Askren cracks Cooler with a big elbow.
Askren throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.
Cooler struggling a bit here.
Askren throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Askren connects with a decent looking elbow from side control that caused Cooler some visible discomfort.
Askren in side control lands a decent elbow.
Askren working the ground and pound.
Askren misses with the ground and pound.
Cooler really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Askren. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Cooler is looking to reverse the position.
Askren scores with punches from side control.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Check out the look on Askren's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Cooler looks gassed!
Askren lands some shots froms side control.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Cooler struggling a bit here.
Askren in side control lands a decent elbow.
Askren lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Cooler down.
Askren lands a decent elbow from side control.
Askren scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Cooler to see if he's OK.
Cooler is trying to get back to half guard.
Askren is putting a hurting on Cooler here, landing some big shots from side control.
Askren lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
Askren landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Askren has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Askren working the ground and pound.
Cooler is rocked!
Askren scores with a couple of short elbows.
Cooler is still in real trouble! Can Askren finish him?
Cooler taking a bit of punishment here - Askren scoring with strikes.
Askren taking a breather here.
Cooler seems to have recovered his senses.
Cooler takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
Askren working the ground and pound from side control.
Askren landing strikes.
Cooler is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Askren scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Cooler to see if he's OK.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Askren lands a nice forearm strike.
Askren in side control lands a decent elbow.
Askren cracks Cooler with an elbow. That is naaassty.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Askren working the ground and pound.
Askren lands a nice forearm strike.
Askren scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh Cooler is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Askren can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ben Askren!
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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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