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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Hamish Farquharson (ranked 520 p4p, 868 weight class) and Pate Ro (ranked 73 p4p, 114 weight class). Pate Ro will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.
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Great wrestler
Excellent boxer
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World class boxer
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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 9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Hamish Farquharson!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 23 - 13 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Pate Ro!
The judges for this bout are Reed Andrews, Anthony Taglia and Jonathan Paton.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ro closes the distance but Farquharson moves to the side
and Farquharson counters with a nice double leg into side control. Ro won't be happy with that.
Ro is looking to get back to his feet here but Farquharson is keeping cool and he's managed to take Ro's back.
Farquharson is working the ground and pound. Can Ro escape?
Farquharson is staying calm and holding on to the back position, whilst working on a rear naked choke. Ro is defending well though. Farquharson let's go of the attempt for now.
Can Ro hold on?! Farquharson is landing more strikes to his hapless foe.
Farquharson 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.
Will Farquharson go for the finish here or will he try and keep control of the position?
Farquharson seems to have improved his submission grappling technique since last time we saw him. Let's see if he can pull off a submission.
Ro is really stuck here.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Farquharson tries to keep control of the position but Ro is staying busy.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Farquharson throwing damaging strikes from the back! Ro could be in trouble here!
Farquharson missing with strikes.
Farquharson lands a shot to the head.
Farquharson cracks Ro with a big right hand from the back mount! Ro immediately covers up and the referee dives in to save him under a barrage of more strikes! Farquharson takes this one by TKO!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Hamish Farquharson!
Hamish Farquharson retains his light heavyweight title!
During a confident post fight interview, Hamish Farquharson thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
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