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Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Anthony Placencia (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Don Fagaro (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Placencia might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Eminem - The Monster Ft. Rihanna. Anthony Placencia has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.
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155 lbs
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168 lbs
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BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Granite chin |
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Excellent grappler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
8 - 9 - 0, fighting out of New York, Anthony Placencia!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Don Fagaro!
The judges for this bout are Jeff Smith, Josh West and Colin Fray.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Fagaro scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Placencia doesn't seem bothered though.
Fagaro lands a nice looking body shot.
Fagaro has been working on his striking defense in training and it's paying off as Placencia is landing a low percentage of strikes.
Placencia on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Fagaro is looking for a takedown here. He's shot in and has managed to get it, finishing up in Placencia's half guard.
Placencia on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Fagaro is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Placencia is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Fagaro is looking for a kimura. It's going to be difficult to finish that from half guard though and Placencia defends it well.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Placencia is trying to stand back up but Fagaro is controlling him
Placencia is trying to get back to full guard.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Placencia slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
Fagaro is working Placencia over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Placencia definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Fagaro looking to pass the guard.
Placencia throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.
Placencia avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Placencia is looking for a triangle here but Fagaro uses the submission attempt to pass into side control.
Placencia takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
Fagaro is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Placencia knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
Placencia manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Placencia is trying to control but can't.
Fagaro is trying to work for a kimura but Placencia is defending well.
Fagaro drops an elbow to the side of Placencia's head.
Fagaro has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Fagaro seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.
Fagaro trying to control from half guard but Placencia is working away.
Placencia keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Fagaro looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Placencia with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Fagaro is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Fagaro scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Fagaro works his way into side control.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Placencia is looking for a sweep.
Placencia is trying to buck Fagaro off.
Placencia tries to buck Fagaro off but Fagaro is having none of it.
Placencia takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Fagaro tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Fagaro is trying to get an arm triangle but Placencia is defending well.
Fagaro in side control lands a decent elbow.
Fagaro tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Fagaro has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Placencia is looking to reverse the position.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Placencia pushes Fagaro away and creates a bit of space to escape. He's almost out here... but no, Fagaro gets a good hold of his legs and remains firmly in side control.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Fagaro lands a decent elbow from side control.
Fagaro working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
Placencia is working to avoid the ground and pound but Fagaro connects with a decent elbow.
Fagaro tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Fagaro trying to control the action but Placencia is working from the bottom.
Fagaro tries for a kimura but Placencia is defending well.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Don Fagaro dominated that round.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!
Placencia takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Placencia's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Fagaro connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Placencia scrambles back to his feet.
Fagaro paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
It looks like Anthony Placencia has been cut.
Placencia takes a punch to the jaw and another one to the bread basket.
Placencia is rocked!
Placencia takes one on the button.
Oh Placencia is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Placencia looks up at the clock. Bad move! Fagaro lands a right hand from hell, dropping Placencia. Fagaro pounces and finishes the fight with a flurry of punches and elbows.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:29 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Don Fagaro!
Don Fagaro thanked the fans post fight for their support.
In defeat, Anthony Placencia stepped up to the mic, saying 'I'll Train More Harder And Try To Push Myself To The Limit.'.
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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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