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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Henderson Cormier (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Travis Rogers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Henderson Cormier had real problems making weight for this fight. After initially coming in at 206.5lbs, he had two hours to make the official fight weight. He made it but it will have taken a lot out of him to cut those extra few pounds. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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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
1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Henderson Cormier!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Travis Rogers!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Bishop, Steven Brown and James Ackerman.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Cormier gets the takedown into side control.
Cormier creates some space and throws a big elbow, but Rogers sees it coming and moves his head just enough to avoid the strike.
Sloppy strikes there by Cormier.
Cormier throwing strikes but missing, from side control.
Cormier creates some space and throws a big elbow, but Rogers sees it coming and moves his head just enough to avoid the strike.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Rogers can do anything to dispel that myth.
Rogers is trying to control Cormier's posture but Cormier avoids it.
Rogers tries to strike from the bottom but misses.
Sloppy strikes there by Cormier.
Rogers is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Cormier lands a nice forearm strike.
Rogers really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Cormier. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Cormier working the body and head with strikes.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Rogers tries to buck Cormier off but Cormier is having none of it.
Cormier working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
Cormier controlling from side mount.
Rogers is trying to stand back up. He's worked his way up against the cage but Cormier has just dragged him back down to the mat.
Cormier working the ground and pound from side control.
Cormier misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Rogers tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Cormier wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Cormier working the ground and pound.
Rogers is rocked!
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Rogers looks gassed!
Cormier scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh Rogers is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Cormier can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Henderson Cormier!
Henderson Cormier very nearly forgot to thank Brute amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.
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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
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