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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between John Ali (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Yang Lei (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Yang Lei has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with John Ali's chin.
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183 lbs
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188 lbs
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BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
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BJJ White Belt
Counter fighter
Granite chin |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, John Ali!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Yang Lei!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, Tiny Johnson and Daniel Franklin.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lei avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Ali gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Nice body punch from Ali.
Ali avoids a wild elbow strike from Lei.
Lei breaks from the clinch.
No luck for Ali with that takedown attempt.
Lei clinches.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Ali fails to pull guard.
Ali pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Ali pushes Lei up against the cage in a clinch.
Ali wants a takedown but no success here.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for John Ali. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Lei managing to block the knees to the body from Ali.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Lei is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Ali gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.
Lei misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Ali tries to stall but Lei uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Lei's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Lei slaps away a takedown attempt from Ali, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Lei shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
Lei looking for a kimura but he'll have to free his other leg if he wants to finish that. Perhaps he's just using it as a distraction technique.
Lei sitting and controlling from the half guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ali trying to keep hold of his opponent's head but Lei manages to pass to mount!
Lei raining down hammerfists from mount.
Lei controlling his opponent.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Lei with shots to the head and body - Ali looks very uncomfortable down there.
Lei lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Ali wants to use the cage to get back to his feet here.
Ali tries to reverse the position but Lei maintains control.
Lei putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
Ali is rocked!
Lei postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Ali looks a forlorn figure.
Oh Ali is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Lei connects with a bit shot that sees Ali covering up! More strikes from Lei and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Lei is our winner by TKO!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Yang Lei!
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energy
A | B |
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hype
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
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