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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Sol Kwon (ranked 330 p4p, 49 weight class) and Mikael Brophy (ranked 920 p4p, 137 weight class). Brophy comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Mikael Brophy has the eye of the tiger tonight.
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205 lbs
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Good wrestling
World class boxer
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Sol Kwon!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
19 - 5 - 1, fighting out of London, Mikael Brophy!
The judges for this bout are Yasuomi Hirokawa, Ren Mimura and Sosuke Kotani.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Brophy takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Kwon keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Brophy.
Brophy scores with a jab. Kwon acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
It looks like Sol Kwon has been cut.
Kwon just misses with a punch to the body.
Brophy with a hook.
Kwon throws out a loose jab but Brophy uses good head movement to avoid it.
Kwon connects with a body shot.
Kwon lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
It looks like Mikael Brophy has been cut.
Kwon on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Brophy throws a leg kick which misses Kwon's front leg but catches the back leg as Kwon tries to avoid it.
Good standup being displayed there by Brophy as he connects with a hook.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Kwon scores with the left hand. Brophy knows he should have avoided that one.
A punch combination from Brophy misses.
Brophy uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Kwon.
Brophy throws a hook but Kwon blocks it.
Brophy tries a head kick but it misses.
Sol Kwon seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Brophy misses with an uppercut
and Kwon counters with a nice uppercut.
Brophy tries a head kick but it misses.
Brophy throws a jab but it's blocked by Kwon.
Brophy loads up on a big right hand but Kwon slips the punch.
Brophy throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Kwon counters with a nice uppercut.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Brophy lands with a nice body punch.
Brophy throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
An attempted straight right counter from Kwon misses the target.
Brophy keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Some bone on bone action there as Kwon checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
A little feinted left hand from Kwon on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.
A jab from Kwon misses.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Brophy lands a slapping body shot.
Brophy lands a jab to Kwon's midsection.
Kwon misses with a combination
and Brophy counters with a stiff right hand.
Brophy slips a jab from Kwon.
Kwon looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Kwon displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Brophy throws out the jab.
Brophy throws the kick towards the body but Kwon avoids it.
Kwon misses with a wild combination.
Brophy with a nice cross.
Kwon throws a body shot but no joy.
Kwon blocks a jab.
Brophy swings for the body but Kwon moves out of range.
Kwon swung with a counter punch to the body but it didn't connect.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Kwon throws an off balance right hand
and Brophy counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
Kwon takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Brophy throws a combination that misses
and Kwon counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
That has opened up Mikael Brophy's cut even more.
Brophy lands a left and a right that send Kwon crashing to the mat, dazed. Brophy thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Brophy swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Brophy lands a brutal head kick. Kwon looks out on his feet and Brophy throws more strikes until the ref is forced to stop the fight!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:41 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Kick and Punches). Mikael Brophy!
After the fight, Mikael Brophy was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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RATING
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