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Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Josh Harper (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ivan Tunjic (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Tunjic has chosen More Then A Feeling as his entrance music. I can't wait for this one - let's get the fighter introductions out of the way and get this one started!
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145 lbs
3 - 0 - 0 |
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177 cm
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140 lbs
3 - 6 - 0 |
BJJ White Belt
Basic striking
Cuts easily |
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Good wrestler
Basic striking
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Josh Harper!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
3 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Ivan Tunjic!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Blasius, Patrick Alders and Albert Achterberg.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Harper scores with a nice strike.
Harper stuffs the takedown attempt from Tunjic. Tunjic gets slowly back to his feet.
Harper punishes Tunjic's body with a nice straight punch.
Harper lands a nice leg kick that just misses Tunjic's sensitive parts.
Tunjic takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Tunjic dodges the punch combination from Harper.
Tunjic darts in and clinches Harper up against the ropes.
Tunjic is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Tunjic breaks from the clinch.
Tunjic avoids a punch combination nicely.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Tunjic crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Harper - the referee stops the clock and Tunjic gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Harper. Tunjic manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Harper pushes forward with a 1-2 combination that forces Tunjic back to the ropes. Harper follows up with a solid lead hook to the liver.
Tunjic tries for a takedown but Harper sees it coming a mile off and avoids it easily.
Harper swinging wildly here.
Tunjic will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Tunjic moves forwards but Harper connects with a nice, crisp jab.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Harper lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Tunjic circles away quickly and effectively.
Harper slips under a jab.
Tunjic clinches up with Harper and pushes him back against the ropes.
Harper taking a breather.
Tunjic breaks the clinch.
Harper slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
Tunjic throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Tunjic moves into range and clinches up with Harper.
Harper is trying to push Tunjic away but Tunjic has him pressed against the ropes, so he's going nowhere.
Tunjic pulls guard successfully.
Harper wants to stand but Tunjic is controlling his posture from full guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tunjic is trying to keep Harper in close.
Harper wants to stand and escape but instead Tunjic has hit a sweep and he's now on top in guard.
Harper wants to stand and escape but Tunjic is having none of it.
Tunjic working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Harper is trying to stand up but he's not managed so far.
Harper on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Harper tries to get out of the position.
Tunjic scoring with some ground and pound.
Tunjic in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
Tunjic trying to control but Harper is working from the bottom.
Tunjic is looking to work some ground and pound but Harper has wrist control.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tunjic is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Tunjic has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Tunjic throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Harper works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Tunjic connects with a couple of short punches.
Harper wants to stand but Tunjic is controlling the position.
Tunjic keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Harper's head.
Tunjic keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Harper's head.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Tunjic working some strikes from top position.
Harper is rocked!
Tunjic with a nice head shot there.
Oh Harper is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Harper looking to control.
Harper is going to have to think about doing something other than just controlling because Tunjic is managing to avoid having the position dictated to him.
Tunjic is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Tunjic landing some decent shots from guard.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Harper avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Tunjic with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Tunjic working some strikes from top position.
Tunjic is looking to work some ground and pound but Harper has wrist control.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tunjic is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Harper knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Tunjic on the ground.
Tunjic trying to control the position from guard on top but Harper is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Tunjic with a nice head shot there.
Tunjic trying to control but Harper is working from the bottom.
Tunjic is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Tunjic throws a big elbow that misses.
Tunjic makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Tunjic loads up on a big left hand. Harper felt that one! He's just covering up now, not defending himself intelligently - Tunjic looks towards the ref and unloads with 3 more big shots and the ref has no choice but to stop the fight! Harper can't hide his disappointment, as Tunjic celebrates the victory.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:45 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ivan Tunjic!
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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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