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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ricky Dray (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rock Lee (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Dray might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Champion. Ricky Dray has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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178 cm
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209 lbs
6 - 4 - 0 |
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189 cm
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205 lbs
5 - 4 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Experienced |
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BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Determined |
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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 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ricky Dray! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
5 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Rock Lee! The judges for this bout are Gwen Towbar, Robert Twigg and Daniel Franklin.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Lee gets in close and instigates a clinch. Dray managing to block the knees to the body from Lee.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Lee obliges. A nice glancing elbow lands by Lee. Lee lands a knee to the body.
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! Dray takes a knee to the side of the body. Dray is breathing heavily. Lee lands a nice knee to the body. Lee crunches a lovely knee into Dray's ribcage. Lee unloads a knee to the mid-section. Lee lands a knee to the body.
Lee connects with a nasty looking knee right to Dray's face.
Lee putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Dray in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body. Lee lands a knee to the head.
Lee landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Dray is defending well against a takedown attempt. Lee lands a nice knee to the body. Lee gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head. Lee breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat. Dray could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely. Lee fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Dray, pushing him back against the cage. Lee is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
That's one minute gone in the round. Lee lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Lee lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Dray takes a knee to the side of the body. Lee landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Lee lands an elbow that stopped Dray in his tracks for a moment. Lee manages to break the clinch.
Lee tries to clinch there but Dray circles away.
Dray misses with a takedown attempt - Lee sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses. Rock Lee seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout. Lee tries to close the distance and clinch but Dray swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away. Dray circles away from the clinch attempt.
Lee moves into range and clinches up with Dray. Knees to the body from Lee.
That's two minutes gone in the round. 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! The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows. Lee unloads a knee to the mid-section. Lee is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body. Lee unloads a knee to the mid-section. Dray lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh. Lee working Dray over with knees to the body. Knees in the clinch landing for Lee.
Lee pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat. Lee tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in the close the distance. Dray manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat. Lee pushes Dray up against the cage in a clinch. Lee breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Lee fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Dray, pushing him back against the cage. Lee lands a good knee to the midsection. Dray won't want to take too many of those. Lee is pushing Dray up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
That's three minutes gone in the round. Dray drops down looking for an ankle pick but Lee pulls his leg out and moves away.
Dray takes a head kick and keeps coming.
It looks like Ricky Dray has been cut. Lee pushes Dray up against the cage in a clinch. Dray looking for a takedown. That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Ricky Dray. That's going to take a lot out of him. Lee breaks from the clinch.
Dray swats away the attempt to clinch by Lee. Lee tries to close the distance and clinch but Dray swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
That's four minutes gone in the round. Lee shoots in for a takedown but Dray shows good takedown defense there and keeps this one on the feet. Dray tries to keep at a distance but Lee has taken the fight into the clinch. 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! Lee working Dray over with knees to the body. Lee displaying some good clinch control by pressing Dray up against the cage. Lee's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does. Lee doesn't succeed with the takedown and Dray counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Lee's guard now. The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action! The referee is asking the fighters to pick up the pace. Lee wants to stand up but Dray is controlling him. And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Rock Lee dominated that round. The cut man is working on Ricky Dray's cut. The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!
Lee fails in his attempt to clinch. Lee tries to clinch but fails miserably and Dray counters with a nice double leg into side control. Lee won't be happy with that. Lee is trying to improve his position. Dray swings around for an armbar but Lee sees it coming a mile off and turns beautifully into Dray's guard. Lee wants to stand up, so he's looking to wriggle free of Dray's closed guard. He's half up but Dray has locked on to an arm! Uh oh! Dray pivots and extends the arm, Lee falls face first to the mat and taps??... does he?? YES! He's tapping! Excellent counter grappling there by Dray! Well done that man!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:50 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Ricky Dray! Ricky Dray made sure to mention his sponsor, SPARTA FIGHTWARE-GTI in his post fight interview.
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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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