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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Brady Battaglia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Carlos Dekkers (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Dekkers is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Sabaton - 40:1. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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19
210 lbs
4 - 1 - 0 |
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188 cm
26
215 lbs
2 - 1 - 0 |
Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Experienced |
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Decent wrestler
Good kicks
Determined |
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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
4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Brady Battaglia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Carlos Dekkers!
The judges for this bout are Wagner Zegers, Nard Betker and Radbod Blank.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
We've got one fighter who appears to only be looking to counter and the other not looking particularly aggressive either, so we could be in for a dull fight.
Battaglia with a poor takedown
letting Dekkers counter with a right hand.
Battaglia with a poor takedown
and Dekkers counters with a lovely shot to the body.
Jab by Dekkers.
Battaglia shoots in with a takedown attempt and he has Dekkers pinned against the cage. Dekkers gets the underhooks and manages to circle away.
Dekkers steps in looking to counter with the mid kick but it doesn't connect.
Battaglia looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Brady Battaglia. That's going to take a lot out of him.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Battaglia with a poor takedown
and Dekkers counters with a nice right hand that sends Battaglia toppling to the canvas! Battaglia scrambles and gets back to his feet - can Dekkers finish him?!
Dekkers is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Dekkers lands a nice leg kick that just misses Battaglia's sensitive parts.
Battaglia misses with a takedown attempt
and Dekkers counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Battaglia thinking.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Dekkers.
Battaglia shoots in looking for a takedown. Dekkers tries to sprawl out of it but Battaglia keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Dekkers manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Battaglia gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
and Dekkers counters with a nice body shot.
Dekkers with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Battaglia with a poor takedown
and Dekkers connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Battaglia shoots and misses
and Dekkers counters with a nice body kick.
Battaglia is breathing heavily.
Battaglia fails with the takedown
and Dekkers counters with a huge left! Battaglia is in big trouble! He's backing up but Dekkers isn't giving him chance to recover. Under a barage of punches the ref has to step in to save Battaglia from any more damage. A dominating finish by Dekkers!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Carlos Dekkers!
A very excited looking Carlos Dekkers 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
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
44% |
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