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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dmitry Ovchinnikov (ranked 5446 p4p, 611 weight class) and Joshua Syracuse (ranked 5105 p4p, 592 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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220 lbs
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Excellent 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
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Dmitry Ovchinnikov!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
4 - 5 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Joshua Syracuse!
The judges for this bout are Hugh Johnson, John Mangel and Darius Henderson.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ovchinnikov has taken the fight to the clinch.
Syracuse tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Ovchinnikov avoids it.
Syracuse doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Ovchinnikov tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
I was talking to Ovchinnikov's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Ovchinnikov leaning against his opponent.
Ovchinnikov tries to throw a body punch but Syracuse avoids it by throwing Ovchinnikov back against the cage.
Ovchinnikov softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Syracuse dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Ovchinnikov blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Ovchinnikov lands a left hand that snaps the head of Syracuse backwards.
Ovchinnikov blocks an elbow strike.
Ovchinnikov works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Syracuse looks winded!
Ovchinnikov scores with a shoulder strike.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Ovchinnikov pushes Syracuse back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Syracuse is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Ovchinnikov lands a body punch.
A right hand to the body from Ovchinnikov.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Ovchinnikov.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Ovchinnikov takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Ovchinnikov is working Syracuse over against the cage.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Ovchinnikov escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Ovchinnikov moves into the clinch successfully.
Ovchinnikov lands a shot to the body.
Ovchinnikov scores with a shoulder strike.
Ovchinnikov is leaning against Syracuse and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Ovchinnikov is working Syracuse over against the cage.
A right hand to the body from Ovchinnikov.
Come on Ovchinnikov - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
A hook to the body from Ovchinnikov.
Ovchinnikov stalling against the cage.
Ovchinnikov is pushing Syracuse up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Ovchinnikov throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Syracuses head.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ovchinnikov lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
Ovchinnikov lands a shot to the body.
Still in the clinch, Ovchinnikov scores with a nice short uppercut.
Syracuse is rocked!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Ovchinnikov lands a hook to the side of the head.
Syracuse is still on wobbly legs! Can Ovchinnikov finish him?
Ovchinnikov slowing the pace effectively.
Ovchinnikov is stalling here.
Ovchinnikov lands a left hand.
Ovchinnikov stalling in the clinch.
Syracuse misses with a body punch.
Ovchinnikov is stalling here.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Dmitry Ovchinnikov.
Ovchinnikov moves into range and clinches up with Syracuse.
Good body shot from Ovchinnikov.
Ovchinnikov lands a body shot.
Ovchinnikov drops Syracuse onto one knee with a big uppercut from the clinch! Syracuse is propped up by the cage and works his way back to his feet!
Ovchinnikov stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Ovchinnikov slowing the pace effectively.
Ovchinnikov scores with a hook to the body.
Ovchinnikov gets through Syracuse's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Nice body punch from Ovchinnikov - that landed with a thud.
Ovchinnikov creates a bit of space for himself and rocks Syracuse with a big uppercut! Syracuse tries to clinch up but Ovchinnikov pushes him back against the cage and lands another monster strike that crumples Syracuse to the mat! Syracuse covers up and Ovchinnikov unloads with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:08 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Dmitry Ovchinnikov!
After winning the bout, Dmitry Ovchinnikov thanked all his fans and promised he'd do even better in his next fight. The crowd seemed to love his humility.
Joshua Syracuse spoke after the fight, saying 'Congratulations to my opponent. He was the better fighter tonight.'.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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RATING
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