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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Armando Smith (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dusty Yourass (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Dusty Yourass will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.
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160 cm
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200 lbs
0 - 0 - 0 |
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179 cm
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182 lbs
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Good takedowns
Counter striker
Self confident |
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BJJ White Belt
Basic striking
Very confident |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division. Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Armando Smith! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Dusty Yourass! The judges for this bout are Shigeki Sano, Ren Mimura and Kenichi Hosakawa.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Yourass tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion. Yourass fails with an attempt to clinch.
Smith will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts. Yourass tries to clinch up. Yourass wants to clinch. Yourass doesn't manage to clinch there - Smith circles away.
Yourass fails with an attempt to clinch.
Nice takedown defense from Yourass. No joy for Smith on that attempt. We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up. Yourass is looking to clinch. The fight stays on the outside here - Yourass looks like he's thinking about clinching though. Yourass tries to close the distance and clinch but Smith swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
That's one minute gone in the round. Yourass wants to clinch. Smith avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Smith circles away from the clinch attempt.
Yourass tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Smith paws at him with a jab and circles away. Smith scores a takedown into full mount! Smith scores with a couple of good head shots there.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing. A nice elbow there by Smith. Smith fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Smith punishing his opponent with strikes. A nice elbow there by Smith.
Yourass is rocked! The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
That's two minutes gone in the round. Smith with good strikes from the mount here! Yourass is still in real trouble! Can Smith finish him? We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for leaving it all in the cage! Smith loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Yourass scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Smith land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Smith stands and salutes the crowd.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:24 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Armando Smith!
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
A | B |
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
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