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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Mornington Crescent (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ricardo Santiago (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Santiago has chosen Rick Ross - Superhigh as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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193 lbs
25 - 9 - 0 |
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190 cm
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195 lbs
11 - 1 - 0 |
Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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Good wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
25 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Mornington Crescent!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
11 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Ricardo Santiago!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, Cecil Peabody and Wesley Smith.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Santiago tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Crescent is able to avoid easily.
Santiago checks a leg kick nicely.
Crescent smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Santiago misses with a body kick.
Crescent moves away from the strike by Santiago.
Santiago closes the distance and pushes Crescent back into the cage.
A nice left hand lands by Crescent.
Santiago swings wildly with an uppercut but Crescent uses good head movement to avoid it.
Crescent misses with a punch to the body.
Santiago tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Crescent's elbow.
Santiago can't find room to land a body shot as Crescent controls the action.
A short right from Crescent on the inside.
Crescent blocks a body shot from Santiago.
Santiago lands with a left to the head.
A head punch on the inside from Crescent fails to land.
Crescent lands with a light punch inside.
Crescent throws a head punch that misses.
Crescent misses with a punch on the inside.
Crescent tries to work over Santiago's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Santiago fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Santiago tries a body shot but Crescent blocks it.
Crescent throws a punch but it's blocked by Santiago.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Crescent.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Santiago misses with the head strike.
Santiago struggles to land a body shot inside as Crescent controls his hands.
Santiago misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Santiago takes a shot to the head.
Crescent pushes Santiago back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Crescent.
Santiago lands a hook to the side of the head.
Santiago scores with a nice hook to the head.
Santiago goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Crescent lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Santiago or not.
Crescent tries a body shot but Santiago blocks it.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Crescent is working Santiago over against the cage.
Crescent fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Santiago digs a right hand into Crescent's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Crescent's gas tank.
Crescent swings wildly with an uppercut but Santiago uses good head movement to avoid it.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Santiago.
Santiago tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Crescent's elbow.
Crescent prevents a body shot from Santiago.
Santiago tries to work over Crescent's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Crescent struggles to land a body shot inside as Santiago controls his hands.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Crescent lands a shot to the body.
A right handed body shot lands from Crescent.
Crescent blocks a body shot from Santiago.
A short left from Santiago.
Crescent pushes Santiago back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
Santiago looks gassed!
Crescent misses with a punch to the body.
Santiago tries to throw a body punch but Crescent avoids it by throwing Santiago back against the cage.
Santiago fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Crescent tries to throw a body punch but Santiago avoids it by throwing Crescent back against the cage.
Crescent lands a shot to the body.
Santiago struggles to land a body shot inside as Crescent controls his hands.
Crescent lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Santiago has a couple of punches blocked by Crescent.
Crescent makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Santiago goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
A right hook to the body lands for Crescent.
Santiago blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Crescent digs a right hand underneath Santiago's ribcage. Santiago let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Crescent lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Crescent has moved round to his opponent's back and is looking for a suplex! Oh snap! He's tossed Santiago clear over his head and slammed him to the mat!
Crescent throwing damaging strikes from the back! Santiago could be in trouble here!
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Crescent is punishing Santiago with strikes - can he finish him?!
Crescent is punishing Santiago with some ground and pound.
Santiago is in a world of trouble here. He's outmatched on the ground here and he'd better get Crescent off his back sharpish unless he wants to be submitted.
Crescent is throwing strikes from the back here. Oh that last one was to the back of the head. Crescent gets a warning from the referee. He throws another strike to the back of the head straight away though and the referee has seen enough. He breaks up the two fighters and stands them back up. Crescent gets a real talking to here and is lucky not to get a point deducted. Crescent apologises and we restart here on the feet.
Santiago is rocked!
Santiago gets caught by a big overhand right and goes down! Crescent gets on top of him and starts throwing some serious punches until the ref intervenes and stops the fight!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mornington Crescent!
Mornington Crescent retains his middleweight title!
During a confident post fight interview, Mornington Crescent thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
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energy
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hype
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