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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Luigi Calvante (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Eduard Melkonyan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Melkonyan has chosen 25/17 as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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225 lbs
2 - 0 - 1 |
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253 lbs
6 - 0 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
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Powerful takedowns
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
2 - 0 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, Luigi Calvante!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Eduard Melkonyan!
The judges for this bout are Yves DeLean, Alec Ball and Dillan Fox.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Calvante feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Calvante drops back looking for a leg! Melkonyan is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Melkonyan manages to kick Calvante off! Calvante jumps back into Melkonyan's guard.
Melkonyan is trying to keep Calvante in close.
Melkonyan is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Calvante throwing strikes from guard but Melkonyan blocks nicely.
Melkonyan working for a triangle but Calvante defends it easily.
Melkonyan controls Calvante momentarily but Calvante frees himself.
Calvante won't allow Melkonyan to sweep him here.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Melkonyan is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Calvante defends well.
Calvante knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Melkonyan on the ground.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Melkonyan working a defensive guard here.
Calvante slips nicely into half guard.
Melkonyan avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Calvante.
The fighters are battling for position here. Melkonyan manages to regain full guard. Nice work.
Melkonyan throws his legs up looking to secure a triangle. Oh, that looks pretty tight, I gotta say! Calvante escapes and throws Melkonyan's legs to the side, diving into side control!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Calvante goes for an armbar here - this could be all over! But no, Melkonyan has escaped beautifully and is now on top in side control! Oh, that's unlucky for Calvante but great work by Melkonyan.
The referee asks Melkonyan politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Melkonyan prefers to stall for the moment though.
Calvante tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Melkonyan in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Melkonyan lands a decent elbow from side control.
It looks like Luigi Calvante has been cut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Melkonyan lands a nice forearm strike.
Melkonyan lands a nice forearm strike.
Melkonyan in side control here. He's dropped a big elbow there and Calvante looks hurt! Oh, he is hurt! Melkonyan turns on the heat and pounds him out for a TKO victory! Good killer instinct there!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:36 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Eduard Melkonyan! Eduard Melkonyan retains his heavyweight title!
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energy
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hype
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pop
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FIGHT
RATING
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