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Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mike Haggar (ranked 4 p4p, 20 weight class) and Noah Anderson (ranked 1 p4p, 3 weight class). Anderson has chosen Bassically by Tei Shi as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the super heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 43 - 25 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Mike Haggar!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 30 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Noah Anderson!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Shimada, Shigeki Sano and Sosuke Kotani.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Haggar scores with a shot to the body.
Haggar connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Anderson has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout.
Haggar closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
Anderson really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Haggar. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Haggar is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Haggar drops an elbow to the side of Anderson's head.
Haggar landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Haggar lands with a punch from half guard.
It looks like Noah Anderson has been cut.
Anderson avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Haggar.
Haggar throwing shots but Anderson is blocking nicely.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Haggar drops an elbow to the side of Anderson's head.
Anderson regains full guard. Nicely done.
Haggar postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Haggar 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.
Anderson is trying to keep Haggar in close.
Haggar lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Haggar wants to control from the top but Anderson keeps moving.
Haggar might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Anderson tries to land a sweep but no joy.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Anderson throwing his legs up looking for a triangle.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Haggar stands up over Anderson, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Haggar postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Haggar lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Haggar with a nice head shot there.
Haggar content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Haggar trying to control the position from guard on top but Anderson is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Anderson tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Haggar working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
The cut above Noah Anderson's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
Haggar cracks Anderson with a solid left hand.
Anderson is rocked!
The referee calls the doctor in to look at Noah Anderson's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Mike Haggar!
Mike Haggar retains his super heavyweight title!
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
RATING
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