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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Kingsley Ciprut (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Peter Poirier (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Poirier's choice of entrance music: INTRO - DMX. Kingsley Ciprut has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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215 lbs
17 - 13 - 1 |
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190 cm
34
209 lbs
16 - 14 - 0 |
Good wrestling
World class MT
Cardio machine |
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Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
17 - 13 - 1, fighting out of New York, Kingsley Ciprut!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
16 - 14 - 0, fighting out of New York, Peter Poirier!
The judges for this bout are John Roberts, Lou da Vinci and Joseph Jones.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The fight moves into the clinch position.
Ciprut keeps control of Poirier as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Poirier blocks a body shot from Ciprut.
Ciprut creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Poirier's defenses.
Ciprut prevents Poirier from breaking the clinch.
Ciprut lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
A nice left hand lands by Ciprut.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Ciprut creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
A short body shot lands from Ciprut as the two fighters clinch.
Ciprut tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Ciprut.
Poirier wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Ciprut has him pressed against the cage.
Ciprut lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Poirier breaks the clinch.
Poirier lands a jab to the nose.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Poirier throws a right and a left that Ciprut avoids nicely.
Poirier has a nice red mark on his side after a thudding body kick by Ciprut.
Ciprut has taken the fight to the clinch.
Poirier takes a knee right on the jaw!
It looks like Peter Poirier has been cut.
Our sources have told us that Ciprut has been working on his knees in the buildup to the fight.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Ciprut lands a knee to the head.
Poirier is rocked!
Ciprut has Poirier pressed against the cage. He pushes Poirier back and as he springs towards him off the cage, Ciprut throws a beautiful elbow that sends Poirier crashing to the floor! Ciprut piles on the pressure with more strikes! Poirier is flailing away but he's not defending himself and the referee steps in to stop the fight!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:15 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Kingsley Ciprut!
Kingsley Ciprut seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.
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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
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