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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Kevin Love (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Frank Gallagher (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Gallagher's choice of entrance music: Bloods & Crips - Steady Dippin. Kevin Love has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.
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150 lbs
5 - 1 - 0 |
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170 cm
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150 lbs
3 - 2 - 0 |
Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
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Basic striking
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Kevin Love!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Frank Gallagher!
The judges for this bout are John Roberts, Russell Pearce and Alyssa Summers.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The fighters circling - Gallagher throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Gallagher misses with a hook.
Gallagher shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
Love really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Gallagher working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Love tries to regain full guard. Instead though, Gallagher has advanced to mount. Uh oh.
Love holding onto his opponent's waist for dear life, as Gallagher tries to land some strikes to get him to release his grip.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, Gallagher cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
Gallagher controlling the position easily from mount.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Gallagher misses with a series of strikes from mount. He'll no doubt be working on his ground and pound when he gets back to the gym.
Gallagher throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.
Gallagher thuds his fist into the canvas! Oooouch!
A nice elbow there by Gallagher.
Love wants to hold on but Gallagher pushes him away.
Gallagher is controlling this nicely and is looking to make no mistakes. Love is trying to wiggle out of this horrible position. Love flips to his side and attempts to get a leg in for half guard. Gallagher anticipates the leg and manages to get behind Love and secures both hooks! This could be bad! Gallagher slips an arm under Love chin and tries to position for a rear naked choke. Gallagher has worked the choke in now and it looks tight. Gallagher is squeezing on Love like an anaconda would it's prey. Love fails to tap and has fallen unconscious! We've got ourselves a winner by way of a rear naked choke!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Frank Gallagher!
Frank Gallagher seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.
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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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