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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Paul Hunt (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kyson Dale (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Dale comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Killing in the name of kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.
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188 cm
18
212 lbs
1 - 0 - 0 |
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182 cm
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199 lbs
2 - 1 - 0 |
BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
Big right hand |
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BJJ White Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Prefers standup |
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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
1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Paul Hunt! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
2 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Kyson Dale! The judges for this bout are Radbod Blank, Albert Achterberg and Paul Aken.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Hunt takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away. The fight stays on the outside here - Dale looks like he's thinking about clinching though. Hunt keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Hunt swings for the body but Dale moves out of range.
Dale shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it. Dale throws a lazy uppercut
and Hunt cracks him with a counter punch right on the button. Dale ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Hunt moves away. Dale just misses with a punch to the body.
Sloppy strikes from Hunt. Those never looked like landing. Jab, jab by Hunt - just one landing. Dale looks to score with a jab to the body but Hunt is just out of range. Hunt throwing a counter right hand but Dale manages to avoid it. Hunt ducks under a wild hook from Dale. Hunt just misses with a punch to the body.
Dale throws a head kick that misses and Hunt counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head. This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff! Dale takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor. A nice combination there by Dale.
Dale tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Hunt was well out of range. Poor timing from Dale. Dale throws a body punch but Hunt moves out of range. Hunt is looking to counter punch. Dale tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Hunt manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
That's one minute gone in the round. Dale misses with a hook. Hunt ducked under it nicely. Hunt misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Dale.
Hunt takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness. Dale tries to bum rush Hunt with a series of wild strikes but Hunt uses good footwork to avoid the assault. Hunt bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Dale's head. Dale rushes Hunt and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch. A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors. Dale misses with an elbow strike.
Come on Hunt - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Dale lands an elbow inside that Hunt shrugs off. Hunt lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Dale backwards. Hunt jumps guard and drags Dale to the mat. He's obviously going to be looking for submissions off his back. Dale looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights. Hunt has a closed guard, preventing Dale from standing up. Dale is posturing up here but Hunt has hold of an arm and he's gone for an armbar! Dale tries to roll out but it's too tight and Dale has to tap! Slick submission there by Hunt!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Paul Hunt! Paul Hunt 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. The defeated Kyson Dale had this to say: 'I will be back, bigger and stronger! '.
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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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RATING
67% |
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