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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Matt Tie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Bas Rutten (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rutten has chosen EL GUAPO! as his entrance music. Bas Rutten has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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190 cm
23
215 lbs
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185 cm
25
205 lbs
2 - 0 - 0 |
BJJ Blue Belt
World class MT
Insanely flexible |
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BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Intelligent |
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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
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Matt Tie! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Bas Rutten! The judges for this bout are Wagner Zegers, Radbod Blank and Nard Betker.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Rutten displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from Tie. Tie avoids a punch combination nicely.
Tie swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Rutten counters with a straight punch to the midsection. Tie doesn't succeed with the takedown and Rutten counters with a shoot takedown. Tie fights it but they end up in guard. Tie trying to punch from his back but it's not doing any damage. Rutten pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Tie is keeping the position for now. Tie preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage. Tie throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.
Rutten advances to half guard. Rutten is trying to work for a kimura but Tie is defending well.
Tie trying to control from the bottom.
That's one minute gone in the round. Rutten thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Tie's head. Rutten not doing much here.
Tie works his way to full guard. Good work. Rutten stops Tie from standing up. Rutten stands up from Tie's guard - Rutten perhaps looking for a knockout. Rutten misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Tie shoots in for a takedown - he's clinched up with Rutten but Rutten pushes him off and we're back to square one. That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Matt Tie. That's going to take a lot out of him. Tie swings and misses with a hook to the body.
That's two minutes gone in the round. Tie tries to clinch and Rutten counters with a shoot takedown. Tie fights it but they end up in guard. Rutten trying to control the position from guard on top but Tie is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can. Tie working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Rutten doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Rutten manages to throw the legs off his shoulder and he's back into guard - no problem. Tie doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Tie tries to land a sweep but no joy. Tie keeping moving, preventing Rutten from controlling successfully. Tie controls Rutten momentarily but Rutten frees himself.
That's three minutes gone in the round. Tie is working actively off his back, looking to secure an arm or perhaps work for a triangle. Rutten won't allow Tie to sweep him here. Tie looking for a guillotine here but Rutten defends easily.
Tie looking to control.
Tie keeping moving, preventing Rutten from controlling successfully. Tie throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
That's four minutes gone in the round. Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless. Tie trying to control the position.
Tie is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Rutten is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
The ref stands the fighters back up. Matt Tie wasn't doing enough on the ground. A slow jab from Rutten misses its intended target. Tie moves to clinch but Rutten breaks away and Rutten counters with a three punch combo that has Tie backing up. Tie nods at Rutten to acknowledge the strikes. Tie gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily and Rutten connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle. Rutten connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there. Tie closes the distance and clinches up with Rutten, looking for a takedown. Tie pushes Rutten against the cage but Rutten circles to the side and manages to break the clinch. The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end. Rutten fails with an attempt to clinch.
Tie thumps Rutten with a low kick. And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Bas Rutten dominated that round. The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.
Rutten lands a nice looking body shot.
Tie darts in and clinches Rutten up against the cage. Tie tries to pull guard but Rutten won't allow it.
Tie avoiding damage as Rutten throws knees to the body.
Tie pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat. Rutten misses with a wild combination.
Rutten pivots as if he's going to throw a leg kick but stops half way. Rutten misses with the combination.
A telegraphed takedown attempt from Tie is defended easily by Rutten. Rutten looks to land a combination but Tie avoids it well.
That's one minute gone in the round. Tie gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily and Rutten counters with a nice double leg into side control. Tie won't be happy with that. That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Matt Tie. That's going to take a lot out of him. Rutten has hold of Tie's arm here. He's working for an Americana. It looks like he might have it! Tie tries to escape but he's just digging himself in deeper - Rutten cranks the arm and Tie screams in pain! The ref makes a decision and ends the fight before the tap - no complains from Tie, who is just happy to have his arm attached to his body.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:30 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Bas Rutten!
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energy
A | B |
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hype
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
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