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Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Ricardo Alvarez (ranked 1004 p4p, 132 weight class) and Taz Melodies (ranked 677 p4p, 98 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Alvarez might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Eminem–Phenomenal. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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184 lbs
7 - 4 - 0 |
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174 lbs
12 - 5 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine |
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Excellent MT
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
7 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ricardo Alvarez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
12 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Taz Melodies!
The judges for this bout are Frank Dennis, Chris Downing and Cecil Peabody.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Melodies lands the left hand.
Melodies throws a big shot that misses.
Alvarez looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Alvarez with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Alvarez misses with a double jab
and Melodies cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Alvarez dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Melodies. That did some damage!
Alvarez displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Melodies throws out the jab.
Alvarez feinted there with a counter leg kick.
Alvarez throws a head kick but Melodies moves out of range.
Alvarez missing with a left hand there. Melodies was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Alvarez misses with a wild combination.
Melodies throws a counter combo.
An inside leg kick from Alvarez misses.
Alvarez moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Melodies misses with a hook.
Melodies is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Alvarez throws a low kick but Melodies avoids it.
It seemed like Melodies was going to counter with the hook but didn't fully commit to it.
Melodies throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Alvarez stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Alvarez looks to throw the jab but Melodies is out of range.
Alvarez does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Alvarez displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Melodies throws out the jab.
Alvarez misses with a body shot
and Melodies counters with a nice uppercut.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Melodies misses the jab.
Alvarez gets tackled into the cage by Melodies. Melodies maintains the clinch.
Alvarez blocks an uppercut.
Melodies lands a hook that snaps the head of Alvarez backwards.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Melodies creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Alvarez is rocked!
Melodies lands an elbow inside that Alvarez shrugs off.
Oh Alvarez is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Melodies tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Melodies misses with a short punch on the inside.
Melodies misses with the head strike.
Melodies lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Melodies swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Good body shot from Melodies.
Melodies swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Alvarez looking to throw knees to the head but Melodies is blocking nicely.
Melodies lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
We've been informed that Melodies has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Alvarez takes an elbow to the temple.
Melodies gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
A nice glancing elbow lands by Melodies.
Clinched against the cage, Melodies lands a big elbow that drops Alvarez! The ref dives in to save him from more shots - Alvarez is complaining that he's OK but he was done.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:40 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Taz Melodies!
A relieved looking Taz Melodies thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
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energy
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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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