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Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Thomas Dos Santos (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Johnson (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Johnson has chosen Brothers Johnson - Get The Funk Out Of My Face as his entrance music. Thomas Dos Santos could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to John Johnson's chin.
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143 lbs
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145 lbs
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Decent wrestler
Solid boxing
Good chin |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
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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
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Thomas Dos Santos!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, John Johnson!
The judges for this bout are Ivan Kurochkin, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Illya Tyunina.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A combination from Dos Santos does no damage.
Johnson throws a right and a left that Dos Santos avoids nicely.
Johnson uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Dos Santos has time to react.
A looping hook to the body misses from Johnson. Dos Santos does a little dance to reset his feet.
Johnson throws a big shot that misses.
Dos Santos takes a swing at Johnson's ribcage but misses.
Dos Santos fails to land with a series of punches.
Johnson moves out of range of the strikes.
Johnson misses with a wild combination.
Dos Santos displaying good standup as he scores with a three punch combination.
Dos Santos tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Dos Santos throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Johnson.
Johnson takes a jab right on the kisser.
Johnson slips a jab and a cross from Dos Santos.
Johnson moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Dos Santos shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Sloppy strikes from Dos Santos. Those never looked like landing.
Dos Santos misses with a series of wild punches.
Johnson avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
A telegraphed right hand from Dos Santos misses the target.
Johnson connects with a looping right hand.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Dos Santos throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Johnson will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Johnson turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Sloppy strikes from Johnson. Those never looked like landing.
Thomas Dos Santos is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Johnson feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Dos Santos's calf.
Dos Santos's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Johnson connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Dos Santos scrambles back to his feet.
Dos Santos walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Dos Santos crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Johnson - the referee stops the clock and Dos Santos gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Johnson. Dos Santos manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Nice cross by Johnson.
Good exchange - Johnson coming out on top.
Dos Santos thows a body shot but no joy.
Johnson keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
A telegraphed right hand from Dos Santos misses the target.
Dos Santos takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
A slow jab from Johnson misses its intended target.
Johnson throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Johnson dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Johnson scores with a kick to the midsection.
Johnson uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Dos Santos.
Johnson wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Dos Santos throws a big shot that misses.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
A big right from Johnson misses.
Dos Santos thows a left - swing and a miss!
Johnson lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
Johnson throws a series of strikes that have Dos Santos backpedaling.
Johnson lands a nice hook to Dos Santos's body. Dos Santos takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Johnson blocks a jab.
Johnson throws a jab when Dos Santos was well out of range.
Dos Santos throws a shot from downtown. Johnson moves away and avoids it.
Thomas Dos Santos seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Dos Santos misses with a looping left.
Dos Santos ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Johnson moves away.
Johnson misses with an uppercut. Dos Santos saw that one coming.
Nice uppercut lands for Johnson. That snapped Dos Santos's head back.
Johnson takes a swing at Dos Santos's ribcage but misses.
Johnson bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Dos Santos takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Dos Santos lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Johnson circles away quickly and effectively.
Johnson is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Dos Santos had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
Dos Santos walks into a jab.
Dos Santos keeps the fight on the outside.
Johnson dodges the punch combination from Dos Santos.
Dos Santos walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dos Santos uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Johnson.
Dos Santos ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Johnson moves away.
The fighters circling - Johnson throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Dos Santos misses with a wild combination.
Johnson closes the distance and pushes Dos Santos back into the cage.
Johnson lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Dos Santos lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Johnson backwards.
Dos Santos misses with a punch to the body.
Dos Santos wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Johnson is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Dos Santos managing to block the knees to the body from Johnson.
Dos Santos misses with some punches.
Johnson misses with an elbow over the top.
Dos Santos takes a knee right on the jaw!
It looks like Thomas Dos Santos has been cut.
Johnson lands a knee to the head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Johnson using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Dos Santos has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Dos Santos tries a body shot but Johnson blocks it.
Johnson misses with an elbow strike.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Dos Santos misses with the head strike.
Dos Santos avoids the elbow strike from Johnson, against the cage.
Johnson with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Dos Santos goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Dos Santos lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Johnson lands a nice elbow.
Johnson escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Johnson throws a hook but Dos Santos avoids it easily.
Nice defenses there by Johnson.
Johnson staying out of range there.
The fight stays on the outside here - Johnson looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Dos Santos defending well as Johnson loads up on a big left hand.
Dos Santos avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Johnson listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Dos Santos throws a body punch but Johnson moves out of range.
Decent striking displayed by Dos Santos there.
Dos Santos misses with a left hand
and Johnson counters with a leg kick.
A slow jab from Johnson misses its intended target.
Dos Santos needs to keep his hands up - Johnson had a free shot at his head there.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
John Johnson dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Thomas Dos Santos's cut.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!
Johnson connects with a body shot.
Dos Santos fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Dos Santos really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Dos Santos uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Johnson.
Dos Santos blocks a jab.
Dos Santos will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Johnson keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Johnson clobbers Dos Santos with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Dos Santos waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Johnson.
Dos Santos throws a hook but Johnson avoids it easily.
Johnson scores with a jab to the jaw.
Johnson slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
Dos Santos thows a body shot but no joy.
Johnson gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Johnson pushes off an throws an elbow but Dos Santos leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Dos Santos has a couple of punches blocked by Johnson.
Johnson blocking some punches.
Dos Santos tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Johnson's elbow.
Johnson tries a knee to the head but Dos Santos blocks it.
Dos Santos can't find room to land a body shot as Johnson controls the action.
Dos Santos fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Dos Santos misses with a hook to the ribs.
Johnson blocks a body shot from Dos Santos.
Johnson throws a knee to the head but misses.
Johnson escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Johnson displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Dos Santos throws out the jab.
Dos Santos throws a nice looking combination but Johnson bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Dos Santos misses with a wild body shot.
Johnson walks into a stiff left hand from Dos Santos.
Johnson uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Dos Santos has time to react.
A swing and a miss from Johnson.
Johnson misses with a looping left.
Dos Santos tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Johnson was well out of range. Poor timing from Dos Santos.
Dos Santos throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
The crowd cheers as Dos Santos lands an impressive looking overhand right. Johnson doesn't seem phased though.
Johnson lands a jab to Dos Santos's midsection.
Dos Santos throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Dos Santos lands a jab.
Johnson blocks a jab.
Johnson jabs at Dos Santos's body.
Johnson ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Johnson shoots in and gets a takedown into Dos Santos's guard.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
The referee is asking the fighters to pick up the pace.
Johnson gets to his feet - Dos Santos follows without any prompting.
Johnson takes one to the side of the head.
Dos Santos misses with a looping left.
Dos Santos misses with a body shot.
Johnson fakes a head shot and lands one to the body.
Dos Santos misses with a hook.
Dos Santos on the wrong end of a nice jab.
A big right from Johnson misses.
Johnson pushes forward with a 1-2 combination that forces Dos Santos back to the cage. Johnson follows up with a solid lead hook to the liver.
A combination from Dos Santos does no damage.
Johnson keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Johnson throws a good cross that connects.
Johnson uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Dos Santos.
Dos Santos slips a jab and a cross from Johnson.
Thomas Dos Santos is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Johnson cracks Dos Santos with an open hand slap.
Dos Santos on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Dos Santos misses the shot to the body.
A telegraphed right hand from Dos Santos misses the target.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Dos Santos swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Dos Santos jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Johnson waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Dos Santos.
Dos Santos moves out of range of the strikes.
Dos Santos goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
Dos Santos takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Johnson blocks a jab.
Dos Santos gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Johnson clinches up against the cage.
Johnson lands with a light punch inside.
Dos Santos has a couple of punches blocked by Johnson.
Dos Santos misses with the head strike.
Dos Santos looks like he's developed a pretty tasty lump over his left eye. He'll need to avoid taking much more damage to that.
A nice left hand lands by Dos Santos.
Johnson stalling the fight.
Johnson blocking some punches.
Johnson lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Johnson lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Dos Santos misses with a punch to the body.
Johnson misses with an elbow strike.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Johnson tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Dos Santos avoids it.
Johnson blocks a body shot from Dos Santos.
Johnson tries to land a knee to the head but Dos Santos blocks with his arms.
Dos Santos tries to throw a body punch but Johnson avoids it by throwing Dos Santos back against the cage.
Dos Santos working aggressively here.
Johnson avoiding damage.
Johnson landing knees to the head.
Johnson lands a left hand that snaps the head of Dos Santos backwards.
Dos Santos blocks an elbow strike from Johnson.
Dos Santos takes an elbow to the temple.
Johnson tries a knee to the head but Dos Santos blocks it.
Dos Santos misses with a punch to the body.
Dos Santos throws a head punch that misses.
Johnson tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Johnson throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Dos Santos blocks it with crossed arms.
Dos Santos wants to break the clinch but can't.
Johnson lands an elbow inside.
Thomas Dos Santos's cut is getting worse.
Johnson throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Dos Santoss head.
Dos Santos is rocked!
Dos Santos struggles to land a body shot inside as Johnson controls his hands.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
John Johnson showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Thomas Dos Santos's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! This is the final round!
Johnson scores with a sloppy right hand. Dos Santos should have avoided that one.
Johnson moves into range and clinches up with Dos Santos.
Dos Santos lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Johnson blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Johnson slowing the pace effectively.
Johnson using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Dos Santos has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Dos Santos misses with a punch to the body.
Johnson manages to break the clinch.
Johnson closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Johnson escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Dos Santos lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Dos Santos misses with a straight left.
Dos Santos swinging wildly here.
Dos Santos digs a good body shot into Johnson's ribs.
Johnson clobbers Dos Santos with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Johnson connects with a good right hand that stumbles Dos Santos. Dos Santos circles away out of range and recomposes himself.
Dos Santos misses with a wild combination.
Johnson comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
That's one minute gone in the round.
A telegraphed right hand from Johnson misses the target.
Johnson lands with an uppercut that bounces Dos Santos off the cage and back into range.
Johnson lands with a thumping leg kick.
Dos Santos tries to move into range but Johnson moves to the side and lands with a nice right hand.
Some wild striking there from Dos Santos.
Johnson slips a jab from Dos Santos.
Dos Santos looks to score with a jab to the body but Johnson is just out of range.
Johnson jabs Dos Santos right on the nose. Dos Santos blinks but takes it well.
Johnson slips under a jab from Dos Santos.
Johnson comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Johnson moves out of range as Dos Santos strikes.
Johnson ducks under a wild hook from Dos Santos.
Johnson fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Dos Santos staying out of range there.
Dos Santos uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Johnson has time to react.
Dos Santos throws a right and a left that Johnson avoids nicely.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Johnson, right into the meat.
Johnson lands with a hook. Dos Santos tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
A big right from Johnson misses.
Dos Santos lands a nice shot to the body.
Dos Santos throws an overhand right that lands on Johnson's shoulder, as Johnson tries to avoid the shot.
Johnson pushes Dos Santos up against the cage in a clinch.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
A head punch blocked on the inside by Johnson.
Johnson tries a knee to the head but Dos Santos blocks it.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Johnson.
Johnson creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Dos Santos working aggressively here.
Johnson throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Dos Santos can't find room to land a body shot as Johnson controls the action.
Johnson with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Johnson just misses with a elbow thrown towards Dos Santos's brow.
Dos Santos swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Johnson looking to throw knees to the head but Dos Santos is blocking nicely.
Johnson with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
A knee to the head by Johnson.
Johnson takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Johnson with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Johnson gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Johnson throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Dos Santos blocks it with crossed arms.
Johnson is trying to stall.
John Johnson seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
Dos Santos tries a body shot but Johnson blocks it.
Dos Santos goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Dos Santos is looking to break free of the clinch but Johnson has double underhooks.
Johnson escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Johnson shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Johnson stands up from mount. Strange move.
Dos Santos just misses with a punch to the body.
Johnson steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Dos Santos.
Dos Santos misses the shot to the body.
Thomas Dos Santos has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Dos Santos swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Dos Santos swings for the body but Johnson moves out of range.
John Johnson is fighting for a decision - hopefully he's judged it right and he's actually winning the fight.
Nice defenses there by Johnson.
Johnson looks to land a right hand but Dos Santos moved out of range.
Dos Santos misses with a hook. Johnson ducked under it nicely.
Johnson looks to throw the jab but Dos Santos is out of range.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Dos Santos lands a head shot.
Johnson scores with a nice strike.
Dos Santos fails to land with a series of punches.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Dos Santos throws a lazy right hand but Johnson sees it coming a mile off and sidesteps it easily.
Dos Santos misses with an uppercut
and Johnson counters with a left to the body.
Dos Santos thows a body shot but no joy.
Dos Santos throws a hook to the side of Johnson's head but Johnson sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Dos Santos shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Johnson eats them both and turns towards Dos Santos to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Johnson smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
A nice combination there by Johnson.
Dos Santos misses with a straight left.
Johnson closes the distance and clinches.
Dos Santos dodges an elbow strike from Johnson.
Johnson breaks the clinch.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Johnson lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Johnson scores with a hook.
Good shot there by Johnson.
Dos Santos takes a body kick right on the floating rib. Ouchie.
Johnson misses with a wild combination.
And that's the end of the fight!
John Johnson comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Johnson has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Ivan Kurochkin scores the fight 27:30
Judge Aleksei Zolotukhin scores the fight 27:30
Judge Illya Tyunina scores the fight 27:30
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... John Johnson!
An out of breath John Johnson thanked his loyal fans in his post fight interview, giving them credit for his success over the course of his career.
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