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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Michak Ropuia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Morten Paulsen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ropuia comes to the cage accompanied by Here comes the pain - Slayer. Paulsen has chosen Papa Roach - Do or die as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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176 cm
25
152 lbs
6 - 2 - 0 |
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171 cm
19
153 lbs
5 - 1 - 0 |
Good takedowns
Brawler
Good chin |
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BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Powerful |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division. Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of
6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Michak Ropuia! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Morten Paulsen! The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Yuuki Gou and Tatsuya Matsuyama.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Paulsen fakes a jab and then connects with a hook. Paulsen cracks Ropuia with an open hand slap. Ropuia stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Paulsen. Paulsen stuffs the takedown. A jab lands there for Paulsen. Paulsen's corner calls for a 1, 2 combination and Paulsen duly obliges. A kick lands to the mid section there for Paulsen. Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd. Paulsen scores with a leg kick.
Paulsen bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Ropuia's head backwards. Ropuia takes one on the chin but seems OK.
Ropuia is rocked! Ropuia misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Oh Ropuia is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!! Morten Paulsen seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout. Paulsen lands with a shot to the body. Paulsen circles and sees the opportunity to plant his feet and throw a really nice straight left hand that drops Ropuia to the canvas! Ropuia doesn't know where he is but he's trying to survive - Paulsen keeps piling on the pressure and forces the referee to step in! This one is aaaaaall over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Morten Paulsen! After winning the bout, Morten Paulsen thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
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