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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jonny Victorio (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Keijo Richards (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Victorio's entrance music is Massive Attack - Angel. A fine choice. Richards is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Rolling Stones - Paint It Black. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.
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193 cm
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266 lbs
18 - 5 - 0 |
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210 cm
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280 lbs
15 - 9 - 0 |
Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Good gas tank |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world! Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of
18 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Jonny Victorio! And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
15 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Keijo Richards! The judges for this bout are Johanna Lukiainen, Tarja Halkonen and Roosa J�rvil�inen.
 The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Richards swings widly with a right hand
and Victorio counters with a head kick. Victorio shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Richards eats them both and turns towards Victorio to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo. Victorio works Richards's body with a nice hook. We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out! Richards displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Victorio throws out the jab. Richards throws a low kick, looking for Victorio's leg but Victorio calmly moves out of range. Richards with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Victorio on the wrong end of an overhand right that came out of nowhere. Victorio tries a head kick but it misses.
Victorio throws out a loose jab but Richards uses good head movement to avoid it. Victorio swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Richards throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Victorio. Victorio is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Richards. Victorio fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Richards lunges at Victorio with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Victorio's hand.

It looks like Jonny Victorio has been cut. Richards throws out a powerful jab. Victorio uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Richards. Victorio misses with a double jab.
A telegraphed right hand from Richards misses the target. Victorio throws a shot from downtown. Richards moves away and avoids it.
 That's one minute gone in the round. Richards takes a shot right to the bread basket. Wow, both these guys are really going for it! Victorio connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there. Victorio cracks Richards with a nasty uppercut that draws ooohs from the crowd and sends Richards tumbling backwards onto the mat. He tries to recover but Victorio pounces and lands a hail of unanswered strikes that forces the referee to step in to end the fight! Richards is not happy but he gave the referee no choice!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:14 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jonny Victorio! Jonny Victorio retains his heavyweight title! Jonny Victorio made sure to mention his sponsor, Perkele! in his post fight interview.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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