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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between John Conteh (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and George Steele (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Steele has chosen Cinderella Man as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. John Conteh has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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208 lbs
29 - 15 - 1 |
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191 cm
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219 lbs
29 - 29 - 0 |
Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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Excellent grappler
Excellent MT
Heavy handed |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
29 - 15 - 1, fighting out of St Petersburg, John Conteh!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
29 - 29 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, George Steele!
The judges for this bout are Sergei Dronov, Aleksei Zolotukhin and Fedor Mirinova.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Steele has a takedown stuffed.
Steele closes the distance and after a bit of a stuggle, scores a takedown into Conteh's guard.
Conteh keeping moving, preventing Steele from controlling successfully.
Steele tries to free his leg and advance position but Conteh is retaining full guard.
Steele looking to sit in guard and control but Conteh gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Conteh preventing the sweep.
Conteh wants to control from the top but Steele keeps moving.
Steele looks to be working for a triangle here. Oh, it looks like he might have it! Conteh has picked Steele up and slammed him! Steele can't keep hold of the triangle and Conteh manages to pass to side control!
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Steele tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Conteh wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Steele is trying to control Conteh's posture but Conteh avoids it.
Conteh decides to stand back up. Conteh steps back and let's Steele get back to his feet.
Conteh 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.
Steele looks for a takedown here. Will he get it? Conteh is fending him off so far but Steele persists. Nope, Conteh circles away and we're back to standing.
Steele has been working on his striking defense in training and it's paying off as Conteh is landing a low percentage of strikes.
Steele shoots in but doesn't get the takedown
and Conteh counters with a nice uppercut.
John Conteh has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of George Steele.
Steele with a lazy takedown attempt
and Conteh counters by clinching up.
Conteh lands a left hand.
Steele tries to score a body lock takedown but Conteh shows good agility there to stay on his feet.
Conteh pushes Steele back against the ropes and unloads with a body punch.
Steele looks winded!
Conteh wants to stall.
Conteh lands a shoulder strike.
Steele fails to pull guard.
Steele blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Steele tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.
Steele's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Conteh lands with a short shot to the head.
Steele is rocked!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Conteh lands a big right hand that drops Steele! The killer instinct kicks in and Conteh finishes his opponent with a series of strikes from mount. A dominating finish by Conteh!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:10 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). John Conteh!
John Conteh decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
A | B |
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
43% |
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