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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Gary Willis (ranked 6152 p4p, 630 weight class) and Ibubesi Mbube (ranked 6283 p4p, 638 weight class). Mbube has chosen "Istokvel" by Woza Africa as his entrance music. We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.
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Good wrestling
Basic striking
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Basic striking
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Gary Willis!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Ibubesi Mbube!
The judges for this bout are Yuuki Gou, Tatsuya Matsuyama and Hirohito Nitta.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mbube swats away the attempt to clinch by Willis.
Willis with a lazy takedown attempt
and Willis takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Mbube ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Willis closes the distance and clinches.
Mbube lands a hook to the side of the head.
Mbube manages to break the clinch.
Willis moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Mbube dips to his left and cracks Willis with an uppercut!
Mbube lands with a hook. Willis tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.
Willis tries to close the distance and clinch up but Mbube swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Mbube looks like he wants to counter punch here.
Willis shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in side control! That's better than Willis was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Willis looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Willis working away.
Willis advances to mount.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Willis lands a big shot there that rocks Mbube but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Willis cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Mbube really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Willis. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
A nice elbow there by Willis.
Willis is in the full mount, landing strikes.
Mbube tries to reverse the position but Willis maintains control.
Willis looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Mbube covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:44 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Gary Willis!
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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RATING
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