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Coming up we have a middleweight kickboxing rules bout between Thiago Almeida (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Arthur King (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Almeida's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, DANZA KUDURO by Don Omar. The key to victory for Thiago Almeida has got to be keeping the fight on the feet.
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190 cm
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199 lbs
2 - 1 - 0 |
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170 cm
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175 lbs
0 - 9 - 0 |
Excellent boxer
Big right hand
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Basic striking
Good gas tank
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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
2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Thiago Almeida! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
0 - 9 - 0, fighting out of London, Arthur King! The judges for this bout are , Frank Antenori and Jack Bonds.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! King fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Almeida, pushing him back against the ropes. King is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the ropes. King wants to break the clinch but can't.
Almeida lands a hook to the side of the head.
It looks like Arthur King has been cut. King wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Almeida has him pressed against the ropes. King tries to circle away but Almeida has him pinned against the ropes. Almeida is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the ropes. Almeida lands a right hand that snaps the head of King backwards. Almeida cracks King with a nice body shot. Almeida lands a glancing elbow in the clinch. King content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Almeida has King pressed against the ropes, preventing King from circling away and getting back to striking at range. King wants to break free but Almeida has control.
King wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee. King is trying to break free. Almeida lands with a light punch inside.
King is rocked! Almeida wants to stall.
King is still on wobbly legs! Can Almeida finish him? Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show! Almeida cracks King with a big elbow, right in the eye socket! King drops to his knees in obvious pain! The referee starts the count but it's plainly obvious that King isn't going to get back to his feet. The referee counts none the less and Almeida struts around the mat, safe in the knowledge that this one is over. A big win for Almeida!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Elbows). Thiago Almeida! A very excited looking Thiago Almeida rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.
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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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RATING
71% |
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