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Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Derrick Rankinstein (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Brus Li (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rankinstein comes into the arena with Going Back To Cali by LL Cool J blaring out of the sound system. Li has chosen Blue Bob - Go Get Some as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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147 lbs
15 - 6 - 0 |
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165 cm
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147 lbs
11 - 5 - 0 |
Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Great elbows
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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
15 - 6 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Derrick Rankinstein!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
11 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Brus Li!
The judges for this bout are Dmitry Maklakov, Vladimir Khabensky and Aleksei Zolotukhin.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Li jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Li gets off balance looking for a body kick
and Rankinstein counters with a straight right hand.
Li closes the distance and clinches.
Rankinstein tries to land knees in the clinch but Li avoids the damage to the body.
Li is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Rankinstein is keeping busy.
Li tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Rankinstein avoids it.
Li is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Rankinstein trying to land knees to the body.
Li blocks a body shot from Rankinstein.
Rankinstein blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Li avoiding damage as Rankinstein throws knees to the body.
Rankinstein stalling against the cage.
Li tries to land a knee to the head but Rankinstein blocks with his arms.
Rankinstein is trying to push Li away but Li has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Li with a knee to the head.
It looks like Derrick Rankinstein has been cut.
Li throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Rankinstein blocks it with crossed arms.
Rankinstein trying to land knees to the body.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Rankinstein managing to block the knees to the body from Li.
Rankinstein swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Li tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Rankinstein avoids it.
A nice right hand lands inside from Rankinstein.
Nice body punch from Li.
Rankinstein blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Li takes an elbow to the temple.
Li tries to land a knee to the head but Rankinstein blocks with his arms.
Li is stalling here.
Rankinstein misses with a knee strike.
Li trying to land knees to the body.
Li working Rankinstein over with knees to the body.
Rankinstein manages to break the clinch.
Li fails with an attempt to clinch.
Rankinstein slips a straight right by Li.
Li on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Rankinstein lunges at Li with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Li's hand.
A looping hook to the body misses from Li. Rankinstein does a little dance to reset his feet.
Rankinstein has a takedown stuffed.
Rankinstein dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Li. That did some damage!
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!
Li throws a nice outside leg kick.
Rankinstein misses with a double jab.
Li throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Li fails to land with a series of punches.
Li scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Li misses with a low kick.
Li lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Rankinstein jabs at Li's body.
Li misses with an uppercut.
Rankinstein is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Rankinstein scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rankinstein stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Li.
A jab from Rankinstein does it's job there.
Rankinstein tests Li's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Rankinstein has Li up against the cage in a clinch.
Li on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Li misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Li tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Rankinstein can't find room to land a body shot as Li controls the action.
Li using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Rankinstein has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Rankinstein pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Rankinstein misses with a wild body shot.
Li misses with an uppercut.
Brus Li is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Li lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Li throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Rankinstein counters with a right hand to the body.
Brus Li seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Rankinstein connects with a single shot there.
Li uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Rankinstein.
Rankinstein throws a right hand that Li ducks under and follows up with a left that Li also avoids with ease.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Li misses with a hook. Rankinstein ducked under it nicely.
Rankinstein misses with a series of wild punches.
Li lands a big head kick that sends Rankinstein to the canvas! Li follows up with strikes from the mount that forces the ref to step in and stop the fight!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:26 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Brus Li!
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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
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