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Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Claudio Carpenter (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Lee Shioon (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Lee Shioon will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.
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168 cm
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178 lbs
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170 lbs
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BJJ Blue Belt
Counter fighter
Cuts easily |
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BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Very confident |
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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
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Claudio Carpenter! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Lee Shioon! The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Shigeki Fujiwara and Shigeki Sano.
 The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Carpenter clinches up with Shioon and pushes him back against the cage. Shioon drops down looking for an ankle pick but Carpenter pulls his leg out and moves away.
Shioon tries to work over Carpenter's front leg with a kick but Carpenter checks it. Shioon dives in and grabs Carpenter's left leg, looking for a takedown. Carpenter pushes down on Shioon's head and hops out. Shioon tries to clinch up. Carpenter could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Shioon clinches up with Carpenter and pushes him back against the cage. Carpenter prevents a body shot from Shioon.
Carpenter pulls guard successfully.
We've had a lack of effective grappling in the last minute or so, which could well see a referee standup. Carpenter wants to control here, rather than go for any submissions from the bottom. At least for now. Carpenter keeping moving, preventing Shioon from controlling successfully.
 That's one minute gone in the round. There's a bit of a scramble here and now Carpenter is on top in guard.
Carpenter distracts Shioon with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm. Shioon can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Carpenter controls the pace. Carpenter scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Carpenter is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there. Carpenter keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Shioon's head. Carpenter controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
Carpenter is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there. Shioon throws a nice elbow from the bottom.
 That's two minutes gone in the round.
Shioon is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Carpenter defends well. Shioon utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound. Carpenter landing with the ground and pound. Carpenter stands up over Shioon, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head. Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd. Hammerfist, elbow! yells Carpenter's corner. There ya go! There ya go! Carpenter throws a big elbow that misses. Carpenter seems content to control from guard here. He's going to have to remain active though if he doesn't want to get stood back up. Shioon is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive. Carpenter throwing strikes from guard but Shioon blocks nicely. Carpenter is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
 That's three minutes gone in the round. Carpenter postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Carpenter avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Carpenter scoring with punches to the head and body. Carpenter with a flurry of punches that miss. Carpenter's corner is telling him to maintain position. Carpenter is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound. Carpenter wants to stand but Shioon has a closed guard, so he can't escape. Carpenter landing with the ground and pound. The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Shioon looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Carpenter sitting in guard here, content to control.
 That's four minutes gone in the round. Carpenter working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound. We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Shioon can do anything to dispel that myth. Shioon lands a decent shot there. Carpenter scoring with some ground and pound. Shioon utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound. Carpenter controlling from the top position. The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here. Carpenter is working Shioon over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes. Carpenter is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long. Carpenter connects with a couple of short punches. As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action. Carpenter in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time. Carpenter postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect. Shioon trying to control the position.
Carpenter stands up from Shioon's guard - Carpenter perhaps looking for a knockout. And that�s the end of the round � the fighters go back to their corners.
Claudio Carpenter dominated that round. That's time! Back to the action!
Shioon tries to grapple but his opponent circles and Carpenter makes the exchange count by landing a cracking kick to the body. Shioon really felt that one!
Carpenter clinches with his opponent.
Carpenter prevents the takedown attempt.
Carpenter is looking for a takedown.
Carpenter pulls guard effortlessly. Carpenter has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission. Shioon wants to stand but Carpenter is controlling his posture from full guard. Carpenter might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground. Carpenter working a defensive guard here.
Carpenter thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage. Shioon wants to control from the top but Carpenter keeps moving.
 That's one minute gone in the round. Shioon would like to get this fight back to the feet but can't get free from the closed guard.
Carpenter is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Shioon wants to get up but he can't break Carpenter's closed guard. He needs to be careful trying to break the legs open, as he's open to submissions here.
Shioon has a momentary lapse of concentration, allowing Carpenter to throw up a leg and lock on what appears to be a pretty tight triangle! Shioon is fighting it off but it's all too little too late - Carpenter pulls down on the head and he's put Shioon to sleep! This one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:47 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle). Claudio Carpenter!
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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