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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Lyle Briggs (ranked 3976 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dante Calvacante (ranked 4645 p4p, 0 weight class). Lyle Briggs has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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188 cm
25
245 lbs
3 - 5 - 0 |
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200 cm
25
265 lbs
0 - 0 - 0 |
BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Good chin |
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BJJ White Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division. Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of
3 - 5 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Lyle Briggs! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Dante Calvacante ! The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Daniel Franklin and Winston Alpacca.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Calvacante missing with a left hand there. Briggs was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one. Calvacante misses with a wild combination.
Briggs throws a good cross that connects.
Calvacante moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot. The fight stays on the outside here - Calvacante looks like he's thinking about clinching though. Calvacante steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Briggs. Calvacante changes levels and scores with a jab to the body. Briggs throws a looping overhand right but Calvacante ducks down to avoid it. Calvacante moves into range and clinches up with Briggs. We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up. Briggs misses with a body punch.
Calvacante has Briggs pressed against the cage, preventing Briggs from circling away and getting back to striking at range. With the fighters clinched against the cage, Calvacante creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut. Calvacante lands a nice elbow.
It looks like Lyle Briggs has been cut. The crowd are loving this. Great action here. Calvacante lands a nice shot to the body. Briggs is breathing heavily. Calvacante scores with a shoulder strike. With the fighters clinched against the cage, Calvacante creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
That's one minute gone in the round. A shot in the inside from Calvacante . Calvacante lands a damaging elbow. Calvacante lands a body punch. Briggs could do with losing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely. The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Calvacante takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life. Nice body punch from Calvacante . Calvacante lands a nice elbow. Calvacante working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely. Calvacante is leaning against Briggs and scores with a nice uppercut to the body. Calvacante cracks Briggs with a nice body shot. Calvacante scores with a shoulder strike.
Briggs is rocked! Calvacante creates some distance and fires off a vicious elbow that drops Briggs! He pounces and finishes the fight with more strikes! Nice KO for Calvacante .
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Dante Calvacante ! A very excited looking Dante Calvacante rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed. Lyle Briggs spoke after the fight, saying 'I'll learn from this and come back stronger.'.
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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
68% |
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