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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Vladimir Venger (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Luis Torres (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Venger comes to the cage accompanied by Live and Let Die. Torres is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Till I Collapse. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.
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265 lbs
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278 lbs
11 - 1 - 0 |
Abu Dhabi Champ
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Good wrestler
World class boxer
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
19 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Vladimir Venger!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
11 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Luis Torres!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, Frank Dennis and Tiny Johnson.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Torres lunges at Venger with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Venger's hand.
A combination from Venger does no damage.
Torres lands a jab.
Venger throws out a loose jab but Torres uses good head movement to avoid it.
Torres moves in looking to clinch but Venger pushes him off.
Torres looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Venger looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Venger throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Venger scores with a jab to the body.
Venger looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Venger falls off balance throwing a combination
and Torres counters with a right hand to the body.
Torres clinches.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Venger tries a body shot but Torres blocks it.
Venger breaks from the clinch.
Torres slips a straight right by Venger.
Torres throws a body shot but no joy.
Torres lands a slapping body shot.
Venger lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Torres avoids a punch combination nicely.
Venger comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Good standup being displayed there by Torres as he connects with a hook.
Venger ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Torres moves away.
Venger throws a body punch but Torres moves out of range.
Torres misses with a wild body shot.
Venger punishes Torres's body with a nice straight punch.
Torres throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Venger throws a jab but it's blocked by Torres.
A looping hook to the body misses from Torres. Venger does a little dance to reset his feet.
Torres closes the distance and pushes Venger back into the cage.
Torres blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Venger throws a punch but it's blocked by Torres.
Torres throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Vengers head.
Torres prevents a body shot from Venger.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Venger lands a hook to the side of the head.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Torres throws a head punch that misses.
Venger breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
A slow jab from Torres misses its intended target.
Torres swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Venger ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Torres moves away.
Torres avoids a punch combination nicely.
Venger will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Torres tests Venger's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Venger keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Torres.
Venger misses with a looping left.
Venger uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Torres.
Venger throws a body shot but no joy.
Venger cracks Torres with a right hand to the side of the head.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Venger will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Venger misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Torres.
Torres throws a couple of head shots and lands with the final one - a decent hook, which struck Venger on the side of the head.
Torres shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Venger eats them both and turns towards Torres to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Torres dodges the punch combination from Venger.
Torres catches Venger with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Torres has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Venger swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Venger fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Torres manages to avoid it.
Venger ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Venger lands a glancing blow to the side of Torres's head.
Venger throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Torres uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Venger.
Torres blocks a jab.
Venger fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Venger missing with a left hand there. Torres was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Torres tries to close the distance and clinch up but Venger swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Venger pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Venger jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Torres looks to score with a jab to the body but Venger is just out of range.
Venger throws the left hand but Torres avoids the punch easily.
Venger connects with a looping left hand that seems like it dazed Torres momentarily.
Torres ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Venger avoids the body shot from Torres.
Torres fails in his attempt to clinch.
Venger lands a jab.
Torres is rocked!
This fight brought to you by 5M nutrition - it's mmmmm tasty. Nice jab by Torres.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Venger connects with a crisp jab.
Torres is still on wobbly legs! Can Venger finish him?
Venger throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Torres slips a jab and a cross from Venger.
Torres gets tagged by a hook that puts him to sleep! Venger points and yells something to his unconcious foe before strutting off. Torres wakes up just in time to hear Venger thank his coaches in the post fight interview.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Vladimir Venger!
Vladimir Venger retains his heavyweight title!
A very excited looking Vladimir Venger made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.
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hype
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