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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Royben Martell (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Rodolfo Vieira (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Martell's entrance music is The Rains of Castamere. A fine choice. Vieira has chosen BJJ song as his entrance music. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.
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BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Royben Martell!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Rodolfo Vieira!
The judges for this bout are Saam Ante, Daniel Blasius and Aafke Stam.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Martell - that will leave a mark!
Vieira circles away from the clinch attempt.
Martell misses with a body punch
and Vieira connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
We've been informed that Vieira has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Vieira takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Martell takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Martell is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Vieira clinches with his opponent.
Vieira blocks an elbow strike from Martell.
A short right from Vieira on the inside.
Vieira blocks an elbow strike from Martell.
Martell pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Martell pushes off an throws an elbow but Vieira leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Vieira.
Vieira scores with an uppercut up the middle.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Vieira will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Martell up against the cage.
Vieira lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
A short uppercut from Vieira.
I was talking to Martell's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
Still in the clinch, Vieira scores with a nice short uppercut.
Martell misses with an elbow strike.
Vieira lands a right hand.
That's one minute gone in the round.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Vieira creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Vieira blocks an elbow strike.
Vieira lands a body shot in the clinch.
Vieira avoids the elbow strike from Martell, against the cage.
Vieira lands a left hand that snaps the head of Martell backwards.
Vieira lands with a light punch inside.
Vieira scores with a nice hook to the head.
Martell is rocked!
Martell creates a bit of distance and throws an elbow that only just misses.
Oh Martell is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Vieira lands a big right hand that drops Martell! The killer instinct kicks in and Vieira finishes his opponent with a series of strikes from mount. A dominating finish by Vieira!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:32 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Rodolfo Vieira!
After the fight, Rodolfo Vieira was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.
In defeat, Royben Martell stepped up to the mic, saying 'One can't always win.'.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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FIGHT
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