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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Rusimar Palhares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pietro Falasco (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Palhares comes to the cage accompanied by Hoporider. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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200 cm
22
219 lbs
6 - 0 - 0 |
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186 cm
24
199 lbs
7 - 3 - 1 |
Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Very strong |
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Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed |
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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
6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Rusimar Palhares! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
7 - 3 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, Pietro Falasco! The judges for this bout are Vladimir Khabensky, Ivan Kurochkin and Sergei Dronov.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Palhares throws a body punch but Falasco moves out of range. Palhares thows a left - swing and a miss! Palhares misses with a series of wild punches.
Palhares misses the shot to the body. A swing and a miss from Falasco. Palhares scores with a sloppy right hand. Falasco should have avoided that one. Palhares walks into a stiff left hand from Falasco. A head kick misses from Palhares. Palhares throws a poor cross that misses
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick. Palhares looks to score with a jab to the body but Falasco is just out of range. Falasco scores with a leg kick.
Palhares fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
That's one minute gone in the round. Falasco takes a swing at Palhares's ribcage but misses. Palhares keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Falasco clinches. Palhares letting Falasco take a breather here. Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Falasco obliges. Palhares is breathing heavily. Palhares doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Falasco landing knees to the body.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff! Falasco lands with a short shot to the head. Falasco displaying some good clinch control by pressing Palhares up against the cage. Falasco lands on the inside with an uppercut. A short right hand to the side of the head by Falasco. A bit of stalling here from Falasco.
Falasco lands a good knee to the midsection. Palhares won't want to take too many of those.
That's two minutes gone in the round. Falasco makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut. Falasco lands a body punch. Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Falasco obliges. Falasco will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Palhares up against the cage. Falasco lands a nice elbow. Falasco lands an uppercut. Falasco lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
It looks like Rusimar Palhares has been cut. Palhares takes an elbow to the forehead. A nice left hand lands by Falasco.
Palhares is rocked! Falasco lands a vicious elbow to the side of Palhares's head that scrambles his senses and sends him wobbling down to the canvas! Falasco tries to finish him with strikes but Palhares still seems able to defend himself so Falasco steps back and lets Palhares get back to his feet - he wants no part of the ground game. Oh Palhares is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!! Falasco lands a big right hook! Palhares looks hurt but is still standing! Falasco lands a left jab and another right hook! This time Palhares falls down and Falasco dives in with a huge hammer fist! Palhares's eyes roll back! The referee calls for the bell and Falasco runs up the cage to celebrate with his fans!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:51 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Pietro Falasco!
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G |
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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
75% |
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