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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Randy Couture (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Gegard Mousasi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
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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 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Randy Couture!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Gegard Mousasi!
The judges for this bout are Edson Gomes, Paulo Santos and Emerson Jorge.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Couture throws a right and a left that Mousasi avoids nicely.
Couture gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Mousasi works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Mousasi keeping composed on the top, looking to control the action.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Mousasi not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Mousasi thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Couture's head.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Mousasi sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Couture defending well though.
Mousasi slows the pace down in half guard.
It looks like Mousasi might be adopting somewhat of a lay and pray gameplan here, which I'm sure won't go down too well with the paying fans in attendance... Or the ring announcers come to think of it.
The ref stands the fighters back up, due to lack of action by Gegard Mousasi.
Mousasi scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Mousasi missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Mousasi works his way into full mount!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mousasi controlling from mount.
Mousasi has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Mousasi thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
Mousasi throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.
Mousasi content just to control the position here.
Couture is bucking up trying to escape but Mousasi cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
It looks like Randy Couture 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!
Mousasi controlling the position easily from mount.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Couture wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Mousasi.
Mousasi takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Mousasi connects with a bit shot that sees Couture covering up! More strikes from Mousasi and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Mousasi is our winner by TKO!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Gegard Mousasi!
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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
36% |
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