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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ricardo Arona (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kyle Fruithead (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Fruithead has chosen Star Fucking Hipsters - Two Cups Of Tea as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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218 lbs
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190 cm
20
210 lbs
1 - 0 - 0 |
Powerful takedowns
Counter striker
Very strong |
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BJJ Blue Belt
Good kicks
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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 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Ricardo Arona!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Kyle Fruithead!
The judges for this bout are Mauricio Rocha, Daniel Cesar and Leandro Rodrigues.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Fruithead instigates a clinch.
Fruithead blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Fruithead with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Fruithead is fighting off a takedown attempt but Arona is just too persistent for him and manages to trip Fruithead to the mat. Fruithead regains guard as soon as the fighters hit the mat.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Fruithead is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Arona thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
Fruithead is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Arona with a nice head shot there.
It looks like Kyle Fruithead has been cut.
Arona stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Fruithead swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Arona working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Fruithead lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Arona!
Fruithead trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Arona 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 one minute gone in the round.
Poor strikes thrown by Fruithead there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Arona suckers Fruithead into throwing a sloppy strike and uses the momentum to reverse the position beautifully! Arona is now in Fruithead's guard!
Arona stops Fruithead from standing up.
Arona slips nicely into half guard.
Arona looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Fruithead with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Fruithead trying to control here.
Fruithead is trying to get back to full guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Fruithead won't allow Arona to pass to mount.
Arona moves nicely into side control.
Fruithead manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!
Fruithead seems to be working for a kimura but Arona defends the submission attempt.
Fruithead is looking for the mount but instead finds himself back in full guard.
Fruithead looks gassed!
Fruithead looking to sit in guard and control but Arona gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Arona won't allow Fruithead to get back to his feet.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Arona chips away with some ground and pound.
Arona is in close to Fruithead's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Arona is holding a leg here, probably looking for an ankle lock - he drops back and goes for it! Fruithead is in trouble! Is it all over??? No! Fruithead has escaped and now he's on top!
Arona looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Arona is avoiding any damage by keeping wrist control.
Arona looking to hit a scissor sweep but Fruithead is one step ahead there.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Fruithead throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Arona works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Arona is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Fruithead drops back for a leg but he's not going to get it - he lets go and Arona dives on top into guard.
Fruithead tries to land a sweep but no joy.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Arona postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Arona slips nicely into half guard.
Arona moves into full mount! Fruithead won't be happy about that!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Ricardo Arona dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Kyle Fruithead's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!
Fruithead shoots and misses
and Arona counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Fruithead decides to change it up a bit and drives through with a nice takedown into half guard.
Arona keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Arona is pressing down on Fruithead's left leg trying to get back to full guard. He's managed it.
Arona keeping moving, preventing Fruithead from controlling successfully.
Fruitheadis looking to pass into half guard but Arona pushes him away with his feet and jumps on top - now Arona is in guard.
Fruithead is working actively off his back, looking to secure an arm or perhaps work for a triangle.
Arona sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Fruithead's guard.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Arona takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Fruithead is breathing heavily.
Fruithead missing with punches from the bottom.
Arona lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Arona trying to mount his opponent but Fruithead defends it.
Arona moves into full mount! Fruithead won't be happy about that!
Arona working the ground and pound effectively.
Arona landing punches.
Fruithead is in all sorts of trouble here.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Arona is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Fruithead is rocked!
That has opened up Kyle Fruithead's cut even more.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Fruithead is flailing around, obviously not happy about being mounted. Arona locks hold of one of his arms and spins for an armbar. He's got it! Fruithead is forced to tap!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:26 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Ricardo Arona!
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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RATING
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