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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Antonio Salieri (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Kalem Roberts (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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190 lbs
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195 lbs
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BJJ Blue Belt
Good kicks
Good chin |
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Decent wrestler
Brawler
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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 New York, Antonio Salieri!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Kalem Roberts!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Lombardi, Lou da Vinci and Alyssa Summers.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Salieri lands a nice leg kick that just misses Roberts's sensitive parts.
Roberts shoots for a double leg takedown but Salieri sprawls well. He's pushed Roberts's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.
Salieri is looking for a takedown here. He's shot in and has managed to get it, finishing up in Roberts's half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Salieri throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Salieri lands with a punch from half guard.
Salieri has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Salieri throwing shots but Roberts is blocking nicely.
Salieri drops an elbow to the side of Roberts's head.
Salieri thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Roberts regains full guard, whilst avoiding punches from Salieri.
Salieri postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Roberts is trying to keep Salieri in close.
Salieri throws a big right hand that misses.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Roberts wants to sweep here but Salieri controlling him for the moment.
Salieri throwing strikes from guard but Roberts blocks nicely.
Salieri connects with a couple of short punches.
Salieri throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Salieri distracts Roberts with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Roberts is controlling Salieri's posture.
Salieri throws a big right hand that misses.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Salieri loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Salieri cracks Roberts with a solid left hand.
Salieri cracks Roberts with a solid left hand.
Salieri postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Roberts bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Salieri's guard.
Roberts is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Salieri is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Roberts keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Salieri's head.
Roberts cracks Salieri with a solid left hand.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Roberts throws a big right hand that misses.
Roberts preventing the sweep.
Salieri is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Salieri missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Salieri is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Salieri not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Roberts is trying to get back to full guard.
Salieri working Roberts over with strikes.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Roberts is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Salieri is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Roberts wants to get back to full guard.
Salieri passes to full mount!
Roberts really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Salieri lands a couple of good shots and Roberts has given up his back, trying to escape the position!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Salieri scores with punches and elbows.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Antonio Salieri dominated that round.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.
Salieri throws a body shot but no joy.
Roberts darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Roberts is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Nice strikes from Roberts there.
Roberts winds up and cracks Salieri with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Salieri is not content to let Roberts control the position.
Salieri works his way to full guard. Good work.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Roberts postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Salieri is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Roberts can do to turn this around?
Salieri throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
Roberts connects with a couple of short punches.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Salieri bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Roberts's guard.
Roberts bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Salieri's guard.
Salieri bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Roberts's guard.
Roberts wants to stand but Salieri is controlling the position.
Roberts has momentary wrist control but Salieri slips an elbow through the middle.
Salieri with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Roberts is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Roberts working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Salieri.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Salieri looking to pass the guard.
Salieri content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Antonio Salieri overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Salieri postures up and lands a big shot to Roberts's brow.
Roberts is looking for a guillotine. You can't force these things though and Salieri defends well.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Roberts can do anything to dispel that myth.
Roberts throws his legs up looking for a submission but Salieri uses it to pass to side control.
Salieri scoring with punches and elbows.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Salieri is putting a hurting on Roberts here, landing some big shots from side control.
Roberts is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Salieri lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Roberts down.
Roberts tries to improve position but can't.
Salieri looks up at the clock and then as Roberts takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Salieri smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
Roberts is trying to control Salieri's posture but Salieri avoids it.
Roberts is breathing heavily.
Salieri scoring with punches from side control.
Salieri working the ground and pound.
Roberts is looking for a sweep.
Roberts is working to avoid the ground and pound but Salieri connects with a decent elbow.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Roberts tries to buck Salieri off but Salieri is having none of it.
Roberts takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Salieri working the head and body with strikes.
Roberts is rocked!
The crowd goes nuts as Salieri knocks Roberts out cold with a massive hammerfist! Salieri Jumps to his feet and climbs on top of the cage to celebrate with the crowd!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:41 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Antonio Salieri!
A less than humble Antonio Salieri misjudged his post fight interview somewhat and came across a little too arrogant whilst trying to hype up his own abilities.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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RATING
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