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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Thiago Tavares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Danilo Alves (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Danilo Alves is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.
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270 lbs
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265 lbs
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BJJ Brown Belt
Lethal high kicks
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Excellent boxer
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Thiago Tavares!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
13 - 11 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Danilo Alves!
The judges for this bout are Seu Braga, Daniel Cesar and Luis Engracia.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tavares thows a left - swing and a miss!
Alves misses with a straight left.
Alves throws a low kick but Tavares avoids it.
Alves takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
It looks like Danilo Alves has been cut.
Tavares lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Tavares steps into range and cracks Alves with a monster punch that buckles his knees! Alves flops backwards and Tavares dives into his guard looking to finish!
Alves is rocked!
Tavares trying to control but Alves is working from the bottom.
Tavares working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Alves keeping full guard, as Tavares tries to pass.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Tavares throwing strikes from guard but Alves blocks nicely.
Tavares wants to control from the top but Alves keeps moving.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Alves looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Tavares looking to sit in guard and control but Alves gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Tavares is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Tavares wants to sweep but no luck.
Tavares trying to keep a closed guard but Alves is proving a slippery customer.
Alves stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Tavares swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Alves is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Alves passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Alves lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Tavares down.
Alves is trying to ground and pound but Tavares uses the momentary lack of control by Alves to regain half guard.
Alves seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Tavares does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Tavares tries to kick Alves off but Alves keeps his base steady and stays in half guard.
Nice strikes from Alves there.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Alves is thwarting Tavares's attempts to control the position.
Alves not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tavares looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Tavares trying to control but Alves postures up.
Alves is working hard to pass the guard. He's done it - he's now in full mount! Trouble for Tavares!
Tavares tries to reverse the position but Alves maintains control.
Alves pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Alves wants to control the pace but Tavares is squirming around nicely.
Alves with shots to the head and body - Tavares looks very uncomfortable down there.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Alves fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tavares tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Alves dominating with strikes here.
Alves lands a big shot there that rocks Tavares but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Alves lands a nice shot to the head.
Alves landing strikes from the mount and Tavares is in trouble!
Alves loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Tavares scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Alves land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Alves stands and salutes the crowd.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Danilo Alves!
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hype
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pop
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FIGHT
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