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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Joaquin Fortunado (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Amarin Kaewke (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Fortunado's entrance music is Stairway to Heaven. A fine choice. I can't wait for this one - let's get the fighter introductions out of the way and get this one started!
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220 lbs
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190 cm
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215 lbs
6 - 1 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Lethal high kicks
KO power |
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Decent wrestler
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Joaquin Fortunado!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Amarin Kaewke!
The judges for this bout are Colin Fotheringham, Sam Margolis and Phil Schofield.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Fortunado cracks Kaewke with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
Fortunado misses with a body kick.
Fortunado looks to score with a jab to the body but Kaewke is just out of range.
Fortunado looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Kaewke tries to clinch up.
Fortunado looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Kaewke tries a low kick but Fortunado avoids it.
Kaewke throws a leg kick but Fortunado checks it.
A combination from Fortunado does no damage.
Kaewke moves out of range of the body kick.
Fortunado throws a looping overhand right but Kaewke ducks down to avoid it.
Kaewke defending well as Fortunado loads up on a big left hand.
Fortunado misses with the combination.
Kaewke tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Fortunado will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Kaewke with a nice cross.
Kaewke is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Fortunado throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Fortunado misses with a low kick.
Fortunado will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Oooooh!!! Fortunado has knocked Kaewke down with a huge combo! Fortunado steps away and waves a wobbly Kaewke back to his feet! This one might not go much longer!
It looks like Amarin Kaewke has been cut.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Fortunado throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Kaewke fails with an attempt to clinch.
Fortunado avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Kaewke moves into range and clinches up with Fortunado.
Fortunado lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Kaewke just misses with a elbow thrown towards Fortunado's brow.
Fortunado tries to work over Kaewke's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Fortunado swings wildly with an uppercut but Kaewke uses good head movement to avoid it.
A right hand to the body from Kaewke.
Kaewke tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Kaewke tries to land a knee to the head but Fortunado blocks with his arms.
Fortunado misses with a punch to the body.
Fortunado throws a head punch that misses.
Fortunado managing to block the knees to the body from Kaewke.
A short right from Fortunado.
Fortunado tries to work over Kaewke's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Fortunado goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Kaewke with an attempt at a knee that misses.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Kaewke.
Fortunado takes a knee right on the jaw!
It looks like Joaquin Fortunado has been cut.
Fortunado tries to throw a body punch but Kaewke avoids it by throwing Fortunado back against the cage.
Kaewke looking to throw knees to the head but Fortunado is blocking nicely.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Fortunado goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Fortunado lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Kaewke or not.
Kaewke misses with a knee strike.
Kaewke prevents Fortunado from breaking the clinch.
Kaewke throws an elbow but it misses.
Fortunado misses with a hook to the ribs.
Kaewke prevents a body shot from Fortunado.
Kaewke trying to stall but Fortunado improves his position.
Fortunado avoids the elbow strike from Kaewke, against the cage.
Kaewke lands a damaging elbow.
Fortunado tries to work over Kaewke's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Fortunado misses with a body punch.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Fortunado creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Fortunado scores with an uppercut up the middle.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Fortunado.
Fortunado can't find room to land a body shot as Kaewke controls the action.
Fortunado tries to work over Kaewke's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Kaewke misses with a knee strike.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Fortunado is leaning against Kaewke and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Kaewke throws a knee to the head but misses.
Fortunado tries a body shot but Kaewke blocks it.
Fortunado's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Fortunado scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Kaewke doesn't seem bothered though.
Fortunado fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Kaewke is out of range.
Joaquin Fortunado seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Kaewke throws a front kick aimed at Fortunado's knee but Fortunado avoids it well.
Fortunado misses with a jab to the body
and Kaewke counters with a nice leg kick.
Fortunado looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Fortunado tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Kaewke was well out of range. Poor timing from Fortunado.
A looping hook to the body misses from Fortunado. Kaewke does a little dance to reset his feet.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Fortunado scores with a jab to the head.
Fortunado scores with a punch to the head.
Fortunado throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Joaquin Fortunado dominated that round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.
Fortunado misses with an uppercut. Kaewke saw that one coming.
Kaewke takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Kaewke tries to clinch there but Fortunado circles away.
Kaewke moves into range and clinches up with Fortunado.
Fortunado swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Fortunado misses with a hook from the clinch.
Kaewke with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Kaewke tries a knee to the head but Fortunado blocks it.
Fortunado breaks from the clinch.
Fortunado fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Fortunado looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Fortunado lands a jab-cross combination.
Fortunado misses with a combination
and Kaewke counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Fortunado showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Kaewke.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Kaewke scores with a leg kick.
Kaewke ducks under a wild hook from Fortunado.
Kaewke fails with an attempt to clinch.
Kaewke with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Joaquin Fortunado is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Kaewke darts in trying to clinch
and Fortunado makes the exchange count by landing a cracking kick to the body. Kaewke really felt that one!
Fortunado changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Kaewke has taken the fight to the clinch.
Kaewke with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Fortunado misses with a punch to the body.
Kaewke misses with a knee to the head.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kaewke tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Kaewke tries to land a knee to the head but Fortunado blocks with his arms.
Fortunado misses with a punch on the inside.
Fortunado is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Fortunado lands with a left to the head.
Kaewke tries to land a knee to the head but Fortunado blocks with his arms.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Fortunado softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Fortunado misses with a punch on the inside.
Kaewke tries a knee to the head but Fortunado blocks it.
Kaewke is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Fortunado is defending well for now.
Kaewke's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Kaewke throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Kaewke tries to land a knee to the head but Fortunado blocks with his arms.
Kaewke throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Fortunado blocks it with crossed arms.
Kaewke with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Fortunado doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Kaewke throws a knee to the head but misses.
A knee to the head by Kaewke.
Kaewke is breathing heavily.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Fortunado misses with a punch to the body.
Fortunado on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Fortunado tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Kaewke's elbow.
Kaewke connects with a nasty looking knee right to Fortunado's face.
Fortunado makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Fortunado lands with a short shot to the head.
Fortunado lands a hook that snaps the head of Kaewke backwards.
Kaewke throws an elbow but it misses.
Fortunado digs a right hand underneath Kaewke's ribcage. Kaewke let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Fortunado tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Kaewke's elbow.
A nice left hand lands by Fortunado.
Joaquin Fortunado has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Fortunado misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Fortunado misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Fortunado works on Kaewke's body with a couple of short punches.
Fortunado lands a body punch.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Kaewke blocks a body shot from Fortunado.
Fortunado goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Fortunado.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Fortunado tries to throw a body punch but Kaewke avoids it by throwing Fortunado back against the cage.
Fortunado tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Kaewke is trying to maintain a safe position but Fortunado gets an underhook and turns Kaewke into the cage.
Kaewke connects with a nasty looking knee right to Fortunado's face.
Kaewke throws a knee to the head but misses.
Fortunado lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Kaewke backwards.
Fortunado tries to work over Kaewke's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Fortunado misses with a punch to the body.
Fortunado stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Still in the clinch, Fortunado scores with a nice short uppercut.
Fortunado tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Kaewke's elbow.
Fortunado lands a nice shot to the body.
Fortunado lands a left hand that snaps the head of Kaewke backwards.
Kaewke is rocked!
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Kaewke prevents a body shot from Fortunado.
Kaewke is still on wobbly legs! Can Fortunado finish him?
Fortunado lands a body punch in the clinch.
Fortunado digs a right hand underneath Kaewke's ribcage. Kaewke let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Fortunado tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Kaewke's elbow.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Joaquin Fortunado dominated that second round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.
Fortunado measures up his opponent and throws a superman punch that connects to the jaw! Down goes Kaewke! The ref steps in, and that's the ball game folks!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:05 of round 3, we have a winner by way of KO (Superman Punch). Joaquin Fortunado!
Joaquin Fortunado is the new light heavyweight champion!
Joaquin Fortunado was full of energy after the big win and talked about how he thinks he can do big things in this sport. The crowd were appreciative of his determination to succeed.
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hype
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