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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Justin Ruiz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Santiago Alvares (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Ruiz comes to the cage accompanied by jukebox hero. Both fighters really staring each other down here, as Santiago Alvares enters the cage!
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26
205 lbs
4 - 0 - 0 |
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186 cm
25
214 lbs
5 - 1 - 0 |
Decent wrestler
Brawler
Granite chin |
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BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
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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
4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Justin Ruiz!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Santiago Alvares!
The judges for this bout are Yukihiro Yamamoto, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Shigeki Sano.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ruiz leaves Alvares with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Alvares shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Ruiz darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Ruiz lands a nice short elbow.
Alvares is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Ruiz is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Alvares tries to kick Ruiz off in order to stand up. Ruiz Avoids the leg push though and dives into side control.
Ruiz in side control lands a decent elbow.
Alvares tries to slip a leg under to move to half guard but Ruiz presses down on the leg and jumps into full mount!
Ruiz landing strikes, looking to finish!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Alvares is desperately trying to improve his position but Ruiz has a good base and remains in mount.
Alvares wants to control but Ruiz is having none of it.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Ruiz in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Ruiz can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Alvares is looking to escape.
Alvares regains half guard.
Ruiz winds up and cracks Alvares with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
Ruiz works his way into side control.
Ruiz trying to control the position but Alvares is working away.
Ruiz lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
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!
Ruiz working the body and head with strikes.
Alvares looking for a sweep but Ruiz has passed into full mount! Oh no!
Alvares working to try and regain half guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Alvares tries to hold on but Ruiz pushes him away.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Alvares taking shots to the head.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Alvares can do anything to dispel that myth.
Ruiz with good strikes from the mount here!
Ruiz landing punches.
Alvares is rocked!
It looks like Santiago Alvares has been cut.
Ruiz postures up and lands a whopping elbow - oh that's hurt Alvares bigstyle! Two more strikes land for Ruiz and the fight is over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Justin Ruiz!
Justin Ruiz is the new light heavyweight champion!
Justin Ruiz took to the mic in his post fight interview and said 'I wanna thank no one but myself.'.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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RATING
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