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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Francesco Luongo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jesse Mackenzie (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Luongo comes to the cage accompanied by Alexisonfire - Young Cardinals. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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170 lbs
5 - 2 - 0 |
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164 lbs
5 - 1 - 0 |
Good takedowns
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BJJ Blue Belt
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the welterweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Francesco Luongo!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jesse Mackenzie!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Lombardi, John Roberts and Anthony Taglia.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mackenzie misses with a leg kick.
Mackenzie will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Mackenzie lands a jab followed by a vicious hook that sends Luongo sprawling to the canvas. Mackenzie follows him down, looking for the kill. Can Luongo hang on?
It looks like Francesco Luongo has been cut.
Mackenzie is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Luongo tries to roll over but Mackenzie keeps him under control.
Mackenzie trying to control the pace.
Luongo gets full guard.
Luongo had isolated an arm as going for an omaplata. Mackenzie is defending the submission well but is in a very vulnerable position. Luongo Is leaning forward trying to finish the omaplata but decides to abandon it, and take Mackenzie's back instead.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Luongo is working for the choke. He's slipped one arm under the chin. Mackenzie has to defend the other arm for all he's worth... but Luongo has managed to get that arm free too and he's tightening the choke! Mackenzie taps out and looks absolutely disgusted with himself. Luongo doesn't care though - he's delighted!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:03 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Francesco Luongo!
Francesco Luongo retains his welterweight title!
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energy
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hype
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pop
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FIGHT
RATING
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