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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Javier Gattuso (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Henrique Tavares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gattuso comes to the cage accompanied by WAR-Low Rider. Tavares has chosen Devour the Day - Get Out of My Way as his entrance music. Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!
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210 lbs
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Good wrestling
World class boxer
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Decent boxing
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
39 - 23 - 3, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Javier Gattuso!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Henrique Tavares!
The judges for this bout are Matheus Silva, Luis Engracia and Daniel Cesar.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Gattuso lands a head kick!
Gattuso scores with the left hand. Tavares knows he should have avoided that one.
Tavares uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Gattuso.
Tavares tries to bum rush Gattuso with a series of wild strikes but Gattuso uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Tavares takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Tavares uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Gattuso has time to react.
Gattuso tries a head kick but it misses.
Tavares scores with a sloppy right hand. Gattuso should have avoided that one.
Sloppy strikes from Tavares. Those never looked like landing.
Gattuso feinted there with a counter leg kick.
Tavares misses with a few strikes there.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Gattuso slips a straight right by Tavares.
Gattuso just misses with a punch to the body.
Gattuso wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Gattuso moves away from the strike by Tavares.
Tavares misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Gattuso thumps Tavares with a low kick.
Henrique Tavares seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Tavares swinging wildly here.
Gattuso seem to be loading up, looking for a big counter.
Tavares throws a jab but it's blocked by Gattuso.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Gattuso throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Tavares misses with a wild combination.
Some wild striking there from Tavares.
Tavares lands a jab-cross combination.
Gattuso throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.
Tavares misses with a straight left.
Tavares walks into a jab.
Tavares missing with a left hand there. Gattuso was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
No joy there for Tavares, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Gattuso lifts his leg as if looking to counter with a high kick.
Gattuso misses with an attempted mid kick.
A combination from Tavares does no damage.
Gattuso has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Oh, that's a big right hand from Gattuso and Tavares goes tumbling to the canvas! Gattuso follows him to the ground and looks to finish from half guard.
Tavares is rocked!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Gattuso trying to control the pace.
Tavares is still in real trouble! Can Gattuso finish him?
Both fighters have adopted an aggressive gameplan on the ground!
Gattuso has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Gattuso content just to control the position here.
Tavares is flailing around, obviously not happy about being mounted. Gattuso locks hold of one of his arms and spins for an armbar. He's got it! Tavares is forced to tap!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Javier Gattuso!
Javier Gattuso retains his light heavyweight title!
A victorious Javier Gattuso thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.
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