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Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Fuego Salsa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jean Leclair (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Leclair's choice of entrance music: king crimson - 21st century schizoid man . Jean Leclair has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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172 lbs
16 - 12 - 0 |
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183 lbs
15 - 10 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Very strong |
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Decent wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
16 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Fuego Salsa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
15 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jean Leclair!
The judges for this bout are Trevor Gratis, Elvis Blanc and Ian Loll.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A slow jab from Salsa misses its intended target.
Leclair throws a quick inside leg kick.
Salsa throws an ugly left hook that misses
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.
Leclair has taken the fight to the clinch.
Knees to the body from Leclair.
Salsa is breathing heavily.
Leclair lands with a light punch inside.
Leclair content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Salsa changes levels and goes for a takedown here. Leclair fights it off and pushes away nicely.
Leclair throws a sloppy head kick and Salsa moves out of range easily.
Leclair moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Leclair tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Leclair tries to clinch there but Salsa circles away.
Leclair fails in his attempt to clinch.
Salsa checks a leg kick.
Salsa chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Leclair can pounce on him.
Leclair scores with a leg kick.
Salsa has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Leclair.
Leclair wants to clinch.
Leclair pushes Salsa away with a front kick.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Leclair connects with a jab.
It looks like Fuego Salsa has been cut.
A good leg kick by Leclair.
Leclair throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Salsa keeps the fight on the outside.
Leclair scoring well with a low kick there.
Leclair fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Leclair scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Leclair instigates a clinch.
Leclair stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Leclair taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Salsa looking for a takedown.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Leclair.
Salsa has Leclair pressed up against the cage and is working for takedown. Leclair manages to improve position though and keeps the fight standing.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Fuego Salsa. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Nice elbow from Leclair.
Leclair with a knee to the head.
Leclair connects with a knee to the head.
Leclair lands a good knee to the midsection. Salsa won't want to take too many of those.
Leclair gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Leclair is stalling here. The referee will be looking to step in if he doesn't pick up the pace.
Salsa takes an elbow to the forehead.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Leclair lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Leclair dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Nice elbow from Leclair.
Salsa letting Leclair take a breather here.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Salsa jumps guard but Leclair turns him against the cage and keeps the fight standing.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Leclair.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Jean Leclair.
Salsa throws the left hand but Leclair avoids the punch easily.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Jean Leclair dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Fuego Salsa's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.
Salsa 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.
Leclair misses with a low kick.
Salsa swings widly with a right hand
and Leclair counters with an inside leg kick.
Jean Leclair seems to be getting the better of the standup.
The fight stays on the outside here - Leclair looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Salsa is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
Leclair throws a half hearted mid kick.
Leclair is looking to slow Salsa down with leg kicks.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Leclair will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Leclair tries to clinch there but Salsa circles away.
Leclair looks to score with a jab to the body but Salsa is just out of range.
Jean Leclair is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Leclair digs a good body shot into Salsa's ribs.
Leclair dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Salsa. That did some damage!
Decent striking displayed by Leclair there.
Leclair misses with a body kick.
The fighters circle, before Leclair throws a beautiful high kick that crashes into Salsa's neck, sending him stumbling to the floor! Leclair lands more strikes and forces a referee stoppage! That one ended in an instant!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:37 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Kick & Punches). Jean Leclair!
Jean Leclair seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.
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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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