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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Hector Barbosa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Michael D Amato (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Barbosa comes to the cage accompanied by Kick In the Door. D Amato has chosen DMX- Intro as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.
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185 cm
23
215 lbs
6 - 4 - 0 |
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178 cm
22
220 lbs
4 - 0 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
World class MT
Very strong |
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Good wrestler
World class boxer
Granite chin |
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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
6 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Hector Barbosa! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Michael D Amato! The judges for this bout are Dean Styles, Bruno Lombardi and Anthony Taglia.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! D Amato rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Barbosa counters with a straight right hand. Barbosa avoids a lazy jab quite easily. D Amato on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Barbosa. Barbosa obviously looking to wear him down.
D Amato takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away. Barbosa has been working on his boxing with his coaches at Valhalla:NY GYM in the buildup to the fight. Barbosa scores with a leg kick.
Barbosa throws a front kick aimed at D Amato's knee but D Amato avoids it well. Barbosa slips under a jab from D Amato. Barbosa takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming. Barbosa throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
D Amato lands a nice looking body shot.
D Amato lunges at Barbosa with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Barbosa's hand. Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd. Barbosa throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle. Barbosa moves out of range of the strikes. D Amato cracks a nice hook into Barbosa's ribs. D Amato throws a right and a left that Barbosa avoids nicely. D Amato misses with a looping right. D Amato looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple. D Amato moves out of range as Barbosa throws a body kick.
That's one minute gone in the round. Barbosa takes one on the button. D Amato lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw. Barbosa moves in looking to clinch but D Amato pushes him off. Nice body punch from D Amato. D Amato throws a jab when Barbosa was well out of range. D Amato lands a really nice looking cross but Barbosa seems unphased.
Barbosa takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
D Amato cracks Barbosa with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage. D Amato throws a shot to the body.
D Amato lands with a hook. Barbosa tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head. Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show! D Amato lands a big uppercut and Barbosa crumbles to the floor! The ref thinks about stopping the fight but Barbosa looks OK. D Amato waves Barbosa back to his feet!
Barbosa is rocked! Both fighters step back and shake their arms out. D Amato engages and cracks Barbosa with a massive lead left hook - Barbosa tumbles to the floor, out cold! What a shot! D Amato is delighted - all that hard work in training paid off!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:45 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Michael D Amato! Post fight, Michael D Amato stared into the camera and said 'I'm the true "strike fear"!'.
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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
89% |
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