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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Donnell Richardson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Manoel Candelabro (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Candelabro has chosen Perfect as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Manoel Candelabro struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 186.5lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Manoel Candelabro will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.
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197 lbs
2 - 0 - 0 |
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200 lbs
5 - 1 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Basic striking
KO power |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Knockout power |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Donnell Richardson!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Manoel Candelabro!
The judges for this bout are Skip Squint, Steve Erwin and Summer Carpenter.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Richardson throws a left and a right that both miss
and Candelabro counters with a nice uppercut.
It looks like Donnell Richardson has been cut.
Richardson shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
Candelabro is defending against the submission attempts here by Richardson.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Richardson lands a nice short elbow.
Richardson winds up and cracks Candelabro with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Richardson drops an elbow to the side of Candelabro's head.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Candelabro avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Richardson.
Richardson is thwarting Candelabro's attempts to control the position.
Candelabro has hold of Richardson's hands but Richardson slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Candelabro is rocked!
Candelabro is trying to get back to full guard.
Richardson trying to mount his opponent but Candelabro defends it.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Richardson looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Candelabro is still in real trouble! Can Richardson finish him?
Richardson throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Candelabro seems to have recovered his senses.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Richardson tries to pass the half guard into mount. Candelabro knows what he's doing though and prevents the attempt.
Richardson sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Candelabro defending well though.
Richardson passes to side control.
Richardson looks up at the clock and then as Candelabro takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Richardson smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Richardson scoring with punches from side control.
Richardson fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Richardson lands a strong strike to the head of Candelabro. That's dazed him! Richardson looking to finish here. Candelabro is waving his arms around trying to block but he's hurt badly - Richardson lands more strikes and the referee steps in to end the fight!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:04 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Donnell Richardson!
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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
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