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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Abduwali Hassan (ranked 814 p4p, 2198 weight class) and Karl Hermann (ranked 92 p4p, 234 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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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 12 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Abduwali Hassan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 19 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Karl Hermann!
The judges for this bout are Tiny Johnson, Alan Glass and Robert Twigg.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hassan lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Hermann circles away quickly and effectively.
Hermann dips to his left and cracks Hassan with an uppercut!
Hassan on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere.
Hermann sizes up Hassan with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Hermann wants to clinch.
Hermann moves into the clinch successfully.
Hermann displaying some good clinch control by pressing Hassan up against the cage.
Hassan lands with a left to the head.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Hassan lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Hermann misses with some punches.
Hermann gets through Hassan's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Hermann misses with a short punch on the inside.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Hermann lands with a short shot to the head.
Hassan misses with the head strike.
Hermann misses with a body punch.
Hermann breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Karl Hermann seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Hassan scores with a decent looking hook.
A nice combination there by Hassan.
Hassan has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Hassan avoids the body shot from Hermann.
Hermann is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Hermann scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Hassan takes a swing at Hermann's ribcage but misses.
A jab from Hermann does it's job there.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
A swing and a miss from Hermann.
Hermann lands a lovely overhand right.
Hassan takes one on the chin but seems OK.
Hermann keeps his opponent at a distance with a nice jab.
Hassan is rocked!
Hermann cracks Hassan on the jaw with a powerful right hand and Hassan falls backwards against the cage. Hermann follows up with more strikes that drop Hassan to his knees. Hermann keeps the pressure on and the referee jumps in to save Hassan! This one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Karl Hermann!
A very excited looking Karl Hermann made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.
Abduwali Hassan spoke after the fight, saying 'Back to the gym...'.
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hype
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