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Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Hellas Pankratios (ranked 360 p4p, 547 weight class) and Yohan Francis (ranked 16 p4p, 13 weight class). Yohan Francis has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Hellas Pankratios's chin.
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 15 - 6 - 0, fighting out of New York, Hellas Pankratios!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 17 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Yohan Francis!
The judges for this bout are Andrew Berry, Paul Tew and Chris Edwards.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Pankratios decides to change it up a bit and drives through with a nice takedown into half guard.
Pankratios works his way into full mount!
Pankratios with a couple of short strikes.
Pankratios trying to control but Francis is having none of it.
Pankratios punishing his opponent with strikes.
Pankratios wants to control the pace but Francis is squirming around nicely.
Pankratios sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Pankratios connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Pankratios controlling from mount.
Pankratios throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Pankratios lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Francis taking shots to the head.
Pankratios has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Pankratios looking to ground and pound but Francis is blocking nicely.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Poor strikes thrown by Pankratios there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Pankratios trying to control but Francis is having none of it.
Francis is trying desperately to improve position.
Francis blocking the ground and pound.
We've been hearing good reports from Pankratios's training camp. Apparently he has been rolling around with some good quality BJJ practitioners and has been sharpening his skills. Let's see if that has an impact on the fight today.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Pankratios connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Pankratios avoids the attempt from Francis to control.
Pankratios landing strikes from the mount and Francis is in trouble!
Pankratios thowing shots but they're missing.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Pankratios trying to control but Francis is having none of it.
Francis blocking the ground and pound.
Pankratios unloading with bombs!
Francis is squirming around, avoiding Pankratios's attempts to control the action.
Pankratios lands with some strikes.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Francis wriggling around on the bottom manages to avoid the strikes thrown by Pankratios.
Pankratios controlling from the full mount.
Pankratios punching from mount but Francis doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Francis wants to control but Pankratios is having none of it.
Pankratios postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. Francis looks a forlorn figure.
Pankratios lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Francis hang on?
Pankratios throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Pankratios raining down hammerfists from mount.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Pankratios loads up with a big shot that hurts Francis! He's pulled Pankratios in close but Pankratios has postured up and lands more strikes. Can Francis survive? More strikes from Pankratios and Francis is out! The ref jumps in to save him! Brutal ground and pound!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Hellas Pankratios!
Hellas Pankratios bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.
Yohan Francis was interviewed post fight and said 'George was the better man. I did what I could. We will look back at the fight and see where I went wrong.'.
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hype
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FIGHT
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