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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Seamus O Donnell (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kazushi Sakuraba (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). O Donnell's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Fields of Athenry. Seamus O Donnell has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.
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280 lbs
13 - 6 - 1 |
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187 lbs
2 - 1 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Excellent MT
Very strong |
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Powerful takedowns
Brawler
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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
13 - 6 - 1, fighting out of Amsterdam, Seamus O Donnell!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Kazushi Sakuraba!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Franklin, Gwen Towbar and George Francis.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sakuraba misses with a takedown attempt - O Donnell sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Sakuraba showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from O Donnell.
O Donnell lands with a kick to the temple. Sakuraba shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
It looks like Kazushi Sakuraba has been cut.
O Donnell displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from Sakuraba.
Sakuraba has his takedown stuffed
and O Donnell counters with an outside leg kick.
Seamus O Donnell has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Kazushi Sakuraba.
Sakuraba is trying hard to land a takedown here. O Donnell sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Horrible takedown by Sakuraba or perhaps it was just good defense by O Donnell which made him look bad.
O Donnell connects with a single shot there.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Whack! O Donnell lands a heavy head kick that drops Sakuraba. The ref tackles O Donnell to stop the fight - a great save by the referee because Sakuraba was done.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:41 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Head Kick). Seamus O Donnell!
Seamus O Donnell took his opportunity to call for a title shot in his post fight interview.
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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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