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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mario Farina (ranked 1289 p4p, 142 weight class) and Benny Alison (ranked 1326 p4p, 148 weight class). Farina comes into the arena with Combichrist - Today I Woke to the Rain of Blood blaring out of the sound system. Alison is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by The Greatest (I am). Mario Farina has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.
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269 lbs
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BJJ Purple Belt
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Mario Farina!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
8 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Benny Alison!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Timothy Bukovac and .
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A jab lands there for Farina.
Alison uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Farina.
Alison misses with a double jab.
It looked like Farina wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Mario Farina seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Farina punishes Alison's body with a nice straight punch.
Farina bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Alison's head.
Farina works Alison's body with a nice hook.
Alison's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Farina connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Alison scrambles back to his feet.
It looks like Benny Alison has been cut.
Farina throws a right and a left that Alison avoids nicely.
Farina ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
Alison misses with an uppercut.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Farina has taken the fight to the clinch.
Farina gets through Alison's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
A head punch on the inside from Farina fails to land.
Farina misses with a short punch on the inside.
Alison blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Alison wants to break free but Farina has control.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Alison blocking some punches.
Farina lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Alison backwards.
Alison tries to break the clinch but Farina is controlling the position.
Farina lands a left hand.
A nice right hand lands inside from Farina.
A right hand to the body from Farina.
Alison working hard to break the clinch.
Farina lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Farina is leaning against Alison and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Farina lands an uppercut.
I was talking to Farina's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Farina misses with a short punch on the inside.
Farina lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Farina lands with a short shot to the head.
Farina swings wildly with an uppercut but Alison uses good head movement to avoid it.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Farina keeps control of Alison as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Farina fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Farina lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Alison backwards.
Farina tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Farina blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Farina lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Farina swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Farina working aggressively here.
Farina tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Farina fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Farina misses with some punches.
A nice right hand lands inside from Farina.
Farina lands a left hand.
Farina misses with a short punch on the inside.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Farina misses with a punch on the inside.
A nice right hand lands inside from Farina.
Farina lands with a right to the head.
Farina lands a right hand.
Alison blocking some punches.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Farina.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Farina creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Alison.
Farina lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Farina has a couple of punches blocked by Alison.
Nice body punch from Farina - that landed with a thud.
Alison looks winded!
Alison blocks a body shot from Farina.
Farina misses with a punch on the inside.
Farina lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Alison backwards.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Farina misses with the head strike.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Alison.
A hook to the body from Farina.
Farina lands with a right to the head.
Farina scores with a shoulder strike.
Farina goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Farina lands with a short punch from the clinch.
A short left from Farina.
Alison is rocked!
Alison prevents a body shot from Farina.
Farina presses Alison against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Farina lands a big left hand right to the temple and Alison goes down!
Alison is still in real trouble! Can Farina finish him?
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Farina moves nicely into side control.
Farina thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Mario Farina dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Benny Alison's cut.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.
Alison gets clipped by a big right hand and goes down spinning to the canvas! Farina gets the back mount and begins to drop bombs on his rocked foe! Alison is too out of it to defend against the strikes and the referee jumps in to save him from the beatdown!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:05 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mario Farina!
Mario Farina retains his heavyweight title!
Our winner, Mario Farina, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.
The defeated Benny Alison had this to say: 'Disgrace, Mario is a bum. Obviously I was winning the fight. This referee and judges should be fired. To let them work again in this profession would be a disgrace. My manager and the entire RISE organization will not stand for such an injustice.'.
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hype
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pop
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RATING
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