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Coming up we have a welterweight kickboxing rules bout between Riski Hester (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Calvin King (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). King has chosen ROAR by Katy Perry as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Calvin King has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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Lethal high kicks
Cardio machine
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Excellent boxer
Solid chin
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
3 - 4 - 1, fighting out of The Island, Riski Hester!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Calvin King!
The judges for this bout are Bart Greer, Santiago Holmes and Dirk Anderson.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hester has managed to clinch.
King is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Hester is keeping busy.
Hester lands with a left to the head.
King misses with a hook from the clinch.
King letting Hester take a breather here.
Hester throws a punch but it's blocked by King.
King taking a breather.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Hester takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Hester tries a body shot but King blocks it.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
King tries to stall but Hester uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Hester struggles to land a body shot inside as King controls his hands.
Hester tries to throw a body punch but King avoids it by throwing Hester back against the cage.
That's one minute gone in the round.
King is looking to control Hester's arms but Hester gets an underhook and turns him. Now King has his back to the cage.
King prevents a body shot from Hester.
King misses with a body punch.
Hester misses with a shot to the kidneys.
King trying to control the position but instead, Hester has worked for underhooks and has pushed King into the cage.
Hester misses with some punches.
King blocks an uppercut.
Hester goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Hester lands a body shot.
Hester throws a head punch that misses.
Hester swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Hester struggles to land a body shot inside as King controls his hands.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Hester.
Hester working aggressively here.
Hester fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Hester.
Hester misses with a punch to the body.
A frustrated look appears on King's face as he tries to break the clinch.
King taking a breather.
Hester stalling the fight.
Hester misses with a hook to the ribs.
Hester throws a head punch that misses.
Hester lands a hook that snaps the head of King backwards.
King wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Hester has him pressed against the cage.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hester misses with a hook from the clinch.
Hester tries to throw a body punch but King avoids it by throwing Hester back against the cage.
King tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
King blocking some punches.
King has a couple of punches blocked by Hester.
King trying to stall but Hester improves his position.
Hester tries to work over King's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Hester tries to throw a body punch but King avoids it by throwing Hester back against the cage.
A short right from Hester.
King looking to slow down the pace here.
Hester tried to land a shot to the body but connects with King's elbow.
King wants to stall.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hester lands with a short punch from the clinch.
King blocks a body shot from Hester.
Hester lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Hester working aggressively here.
A right handed body shot lands from Hester.
King tries to break free but Hester pushes him back against the cage.
Hester can't find room to land a body shot as King controls the action.
Hester tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Hester misses with a body punch.
Hester lands a right hand.
King working hard to break the clinch.
King blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
That's five minutes gone in the round.
King prevents a body shot from Hester.
Hester scores with a shot to the side of King's head.
Hester manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
King is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Hester is leaning against King and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Hester goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Hester tries to throw a body punch but King avoids it by throwing Hester back against the cage.
Hester misses with a hook to the ribs.
King trying to stall but Hester improves his position.
Hester is stalling here. The referee will be looking to step in if he doesn't pick up the pace.
That's six minutes gone in the round.
Hester just leaning against King, taking a breather.
Hester gets a warning from the ref for wasting time.
Hester is pushing King up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Hester is pushing King up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
King blocks a body shot from Hester.
A nice right hand lands inside from Hester.
It looks like Calvin King has been cut.
King misses with a punch to the body.
Hester tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Hester.
That's seven minutes gone in the round.
King tries to throw a body punch but Hester avoids it by throwing King back against the cage.
Hester misses with a punch to the body.
Hester fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
King fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Hester swings wildly with an uppercut but King uses good head movement to avoid it.
A head punch on the inside from Hester fails to land.
Nice body punch from Hester - that landed with a thud.
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Hester tried to land a shot to the body but connects with King's elbow.
Hester fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Hester effectively controlling the action here.
Hester misses with a shot to the kidneys.
That's eight minutes gone in the round.
Hester tries a body shot but King blocks it.
Hester struggles to land a body shot inside as King controls his hands.
King trying to control the position but instead, Hester has worked for underhooks and has pushed King into the cage.
King blocking some punches.
Hester misses with a punch on the inside.
Hester tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Hester tries to work over King's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Hester misses with a shot to the kidneys.
King blocks an uppercut.
King prevents a body shot from Hester.
That's nine minutes gone in the round.
A head punch blocked on the inside by King.
Hester taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Hester tries a body shot but King blocks it.
King trying to stall but Hester improves his position.
Hester lands a right hand that snaps the head of King backwards.
King is trying to stall.
King takes a shot to the head.
King trying to control the position but instead, Hester has worked for underhooks and has pushed King into the cage.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
Hester tries to throw a body punch but King avoids it by throwing Hester back against the cage.
King wants to break free but Hester has control.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Riski Hester dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Calvin King's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! The crowd applaud as we get ready to start the final round!
Hester throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Hester feints and then cracks King's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow King down.
Hester fakes the leg kick and cracks King in the body.
King stuns Hester with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
King throws a quick inside leg kick.
Hester is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that King can do to turn this around?
Hester tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Hester is looking to slow King down with leg kicks.
Hester pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
King ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Hester takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
King connects with the punch.
King missing with a left hand there. Hester was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
King with a hook.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Hester fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Hester is looking light on his feet compared to last time was saw him fight.
Hester throws a lazy body kick
and King counters with a straight right hand.
King lands with a shot to the body.
That's one minute gone in the round.
A jab from King does it's job there.
Nice straight punches there by King. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of King.
Nice defenses there by Hester.
Hester is looking to counter the offense by King and move into the clinch.
King throws a lazy uppercut
and Hester counters with a nice low kick that buckles King's knee momentarily.
A big right from King misses.
Hester throws a front kick that sends King stumbling back into the cage.
Hester misses with an uppercut. King saw that one coming.
King throws a shot from downtown. Hester moves away and avoids it.
Hester tries to counter by moving into the clinch but King manages to circle out of the way.
King stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Hester.
Hester shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Hester scores with a nice body kick.
King blocks a head kick by Hester.
King throws a one two combo.
Calvin King seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Hester lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
King moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Hester is rocked!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hester walks straight into a perfectly timed right hook, crumpling him to the floor! Hester is in all kinds of trouble here - can he beat the count? 3,4,5,6,7,8,9....10 - he's out and it's by a long way too - he didn't ever look like beating that count!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:09 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Calvin King!
Calvin King tried to hype himself up post fight but didn't word it too well and it ended up with him sounding like a bit of a tool.
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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
RATING
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