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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mike Haggar (ranked 44 p4p, 233 weight class) and Parta Matti (ranked 6 p4p, 29 weight class). Matti has chosen Language (Hula Cam) - Porter Robinson as his entrance music. The atmosphere really building for this one as we go over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Olympic wrestler
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 39 - 25 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Mike Haggar!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 20 - 13 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Parta Matti!
The judges for this bout are Felipe Paraventi, Daniel Cesar and Paulo Santos.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Haggar connects with a single shot there.
Haggar clobbers Matti with an overhand right that has the crowd gasping. That made a horrendous noise.
Haggar scores with a one two! Matti had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Matti throws a half hearted mid kick.
Matti blocks a jab.
Haggar throws a shot from downtown. Matti moves away and avoids it.
Matti swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Haggar checks a leg kick nicely.
Haggar connects with a crisp jab.
Haggar paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Haggar misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Matti cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Haggar shapes like he's going to throw a leg kick but settles back down.
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!
Haggar throws a jab when Matti was well out of range.
Matti throws a jab when Haggar was well out of range.
Haggar tries to counter with a takedown but Matti is quick to defend against it.
Matti misses with a wild body shot.
Haggar shoots in for a takedown but Matti shows good takedown defense.
Matti let fly with a counter punch to the body but it didn't land.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Haggar closes the distance and after a bit of a stuggle, scores a takedown into Matti's guard.
Haggar preventing the sweep.
Haggar lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Matti working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Haggar.
Haggar trying to control but Matti is working from the bottom.
Haggar avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Haggar cracks Matti with a solid left hand.
Haggar postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Haggar landing some decent shots from guard.
Matti working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Haggar.
Haggar throws a big elbow that misses.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Haggar stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Matti swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Haggar throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Haggar postures up and lands a big shot to Matti's brow.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Haggar accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Haggar trying to control but Matti is working from the bottom.
We've been hearing that Haggar has been drilling a lot of ground and pound in training, so let's see if he get the finish.
Matti pulls Haggar in close to prevent any damage.
Matti wants to sweep but no luck.
Haggar is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Haggar looking to pass the guard.
Haggar won't allow Matti to sweep him here.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Haggar working some strikes from top position.
Haggar postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Haggar lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Haggar landing some decent shots from guard.
Matti trying to keep a closed guard but Haggar is proving a slippery customer.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Haggar's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Haggar trying to control the position from guard on top but Matti is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Matti has Haggar pulled in close to control his posture.
Haggar wants to pass the guard but Matti is keeping the position.
Haggar postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
It looks like Parta Matti has been cut.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Haggar accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Haggar postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Haggar wants to control from the top but Matti keeps moving.
Haggar is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Matti wants to sweep but no luck.
Haggar postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
The cut above Parta Matti's eye is starting to cause him problems now.
Haggar has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
A real slowdown in the pace of the fight for a moment, as Matti holds on and takes a little breather.
Matti wants to sweep here but Haggar controlling him for the moment.
Haggar trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.
Mike Haggar dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Parta Matti's cut.
That's time! Back to the action!
Matti slips under a jab from Haggar.
Haggar scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Haggar is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Matti can do to turn this around?
Haggar scores with a nice strike.
Haggar closes the distance and gets a trip takedown into side control. Matti quickly recovers to half guard.
Haggar is just content to waste time from the top position. Matti takes advantage of the situation and regains full guard.
Haggar makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Haggar's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Haggar with a nice head shot there.
Parta Matti's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.
The referee calls the doctor in to look at Parta Matti's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:57 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Mike Haggar!
In defeat, Parta Matti stepped up to the mic, saying 'PARTY PARTY PARTY!!! Did I really lose if I get to PARTY?'.
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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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