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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Toso Kortina (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Cyrus Castro (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Cyrus Castro will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.
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188 lbs
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193 lbs
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BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
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BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Toso Kortina!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Cyrus Castro!
The judges for this bout are Illya Tyunina, Igor Prikhodko and Fedor Mirinova.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Castro gets a takedown into half guard.
Castro is trying to control the action in half guard but Kortina is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Castro content to control rather than advance.
Castro prevents Kortina from improving his position.
Kortina wants to get back to his feet.
Castro perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
Castro is thwarting Kortina's attempts to control the position.
Kortina is looking to escape.
The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Kortina throws a sloppy head kick and Castro moves out of range easily.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Kortina scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Castro wants to control but Kortina is keeping busy.
Kortina prevents Castro from improving his position.
Castro manages to get to full guard.
Castro is looking to sweep but instead, Kortina has passed into half guard.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Kortina lands a nice short elbow.
Castro looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
The fighters are battling for position here. Castro manages to regain full guard. Nice work.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Castro wants to sweep here but Kortina controlling him for the moment.
Castro looks gassed!
Castro throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Kortina wants to control from the top but Castro keeps moving.
Kortina wants to stand but Castro has a closed guard, so he can't escape.
Kortina working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Castro is avoiding any damage by keeping wrist control.
Kortina is looking to work some ground and pound but Castro has wrist control.
Kortina has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Castro looking to control the pace of the fight rather than finish it.
Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Kortina doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Castro counters with a nice single leg takedown and he's in Kortina's guard now.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Castro advances position into side control!
Kortina is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Castro is working to tighten is grip on Kortina's neck. He's isolated an arm and is working for an arm triangle. Kortina has recognised the danger and is trying to turn with the submission but Castro is really squeezing tight and eventually Kortina passes out! Castro breaks the hold and jumps onto the cage to celebrate! Submission of the night, I'd say!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:43 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Arm Triangle). Cyrus Castro!
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
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