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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Balagot Liu (ranked 207 p4p, 381 weight class) and Bardia Farrokhzad (ranked 23 p4p, 48 weight class). Farrokhzad has chosen Rastak - Hele Mali (Iranian Fisherman Folk Song) as his entrance music. Buckle up people - heeeeeeeeeere we go!
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Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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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 27 - 9 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Balagot Liu!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 23 - 14 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Bardia Farrokhzad!
The judges for this bout are James Ackerman, Paul Tew and Andrew Berry.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Farrokhzad has Liu up against the cage in a clinch.
Liu throws a punch but it's blocked by Farrokhzad.
Liu throws a punch but it's blocked by Farrokhzad.
Farrokhzad pushes Liu back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Farrokhzad scores with a knee to the head.
Liu has a couple of punches blocked by Farrokhzad.
Liu blocks an uppercut.
Farrokhzad throws a knee to the head but misses.
Farrokhzad connects with a nasty looking knee right to Liu's face.
Liu takes a knee to the side of the body.
Farrokhzad doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Liu lands a left hand.
A head punch on the inside from Farrokhzad fails to land.
A right handed body shot lands from Farrokhzad.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Farrokhzad takes a shot to the head.
Farrokhzad is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Farrokhzad crunches a lovely knee into Liu's ribcage.
Farrokhzad connects with a nasty looking knee right to Liu's face.
Farrokhzad tries a knee to the head but Liu blocks it.
Farrokhzad misses with a knee strike.
Farrokhzad misses with the head strike.
Farrokhzad working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Liu blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Liu lands a left hand that snaps the head of Farrokhzad backwards.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Liu avoiding damage as Farrokhzad throws knees to the body.
Liu throws a punch but it's blocked by Farrokhzad.
Farrokhzad tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Liu blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Still in the clinch, Farrokhzad scores with a nice short uppercut.
Liu breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Liu takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Farrokhzad throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Liu swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Farrokhzad.
Farrokhzad bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Farrokhzad looks to land a right hand but Liu moved out of range.
Liu misses with an uppercut.
Farrokhzad takes the fight into the clinch.
Liu throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Farrokhzad blocks an uppercut.
Farrokhzad using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Liu has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Farrokhzad tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Liu cracks Farrokhzad with a nice body shot.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Farrokhzad blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Farrokhzad has been looking to improve his clinch game in recent weeks. Liu seems to have the measure of him in the clinch so far, so let's see if Farrokhzad can turn it around.
Nice body punch from Farrokhzad.
Farrokhzad blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Nice body punch from Farrokhzad.
Liu lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Liu breaks the clinch.
Farrokhzad fails with an attempt to clinch.
Liu throws a hook but Farrokhzad blocks it.
A little jabbing left from Farrokhzad on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Farrokhzad blocks a jab.
Liu fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Farrokhzad is out of range.
Farrokhzad connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
A big left from Farrokhzad misses.
Farrokhzad connects with a body shot.
Farrokhzad throws a predictable looking body shot
and Liu counters with a nice uppercut.
A jab from Liu finds it's way through Farrokhzad's defenses.
Farrokhzad is rocked!
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Farrokhzad gets clipped by a big right hand and goes down spinning to the canvas! Liu gets the back mount and begins to drop bombs on his rocked foe! Farrokhzad is too out of it to defend against the strikes and the referee jumps in to save him from the beatdown!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:09 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Balagot Liu!
Balagot Liu decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.
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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
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