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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Sam Rinaldi (ranked 5031 p4p, 0 weight class) and Raja Khan (ranked 5754 p4p, 0 weight class). Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!
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Good wrestling
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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
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Sam Rinaldi!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Raja Khan!
The judges for this bout are Steve Montenegro, John Roberts and Reed Andrews.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Khan shoots and misses
and Rinaldi cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Khan clinches with his opponent.
Khan is looking for a takedown.
Khan is working on a single leg takedown against the cage. Rinaldi can't fight it off and eventually Khan manages to take the fight to the floor. Rinaldi looks annoyed but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Rinaldi preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Rinaldi preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Khan scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Khan postures up in Rinaldi's guard and throws a big left but Rinaldi blocks it.
Khan postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Rinaldi managing to control the position.
Khan is in close to Rinaldi's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Rinaldi avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
That's one minute gone in the round.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Khan accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Khan postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Khan postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Rinaldi looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Khan loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Khan throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Rinaldi works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Khan loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Khan throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Khan with a flurry of punches that miss.
Khan throws a big elbow that misses.
Khan scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Khan loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Khan in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Khan with a flurry of punches that miss.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Khan loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Rinaldi lands a beautiful sweep and he's now moved into his opponent's guard.
Rinaldi stopping the sweep attempt from Khan.
Khan throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Rinaldi trying to control the position from guard on top but Khan is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Khan throws a couple of weedy looking strikes off his back.
Khan throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Khan is striking from the bottom but Rinaldi uses the opportunity to pass into half guard.
Rinaldi moves into side control, avoiding the strikes from Khan.
Khan is moving his hips around well on the bottom and has managed to get back to half guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Khan makes his way to full guard. A much better position for Khan.
Khan throws a couple of shots from the bottom but they don't land.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rinaldi landing some decent shots from guard.
Rinaldi preventing the sweep.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Rinaldi with a nice head shot there.
Khan trying to strike from the bottom but really, it's not the best position to be doing that from!
Khan thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.
Khan tries to strike from the bottom.
Khan will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
Khan trying to strike from the bottom but really, it's not the best position to be doing that from!
Khan doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Rinaldi won't allow Khan to sweep him here.
Khan throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Khan being controlled here, momentarily.
If this pace continues, the referee will definitely step in and force a standup.
Khan trying to punch from his back but it's not doing any damage.
The referee has decided to stand the fighters back up, so we'll restart on the feet.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Khan has his takedown stuffed
and Rinaldi counters with a straight right hand.
Sam Rinaldi has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Raja Khan.
Khan looks winded!
Rinaldi lands a left and a right that send Khan crashing to the mat, dazed. Rinaldi thinks about following him to the mat but decides to wave him back up to his feet!
Khan is rocked!
It looks like Raja Khan has been cut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Khan with a lazy takedown attempt
and Rinaldi counters with a beautiful right hand that knocks Khan out cold! What a finish! Rinaldi is going crazy, running around the mat, summersaulting off the corner posts and screaming into the cameras. Something tells me he's pretty happy!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Sam Rinaldi!
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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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