PFL Europe: Main Card Live Stream (US Only)

PFL MMA
7 Mar 2024165:12

Summary

TLDRThe Professional Fighters League (PFL) Europe season kicked off with a bang in Paris, featuring a series of thrilling mixed martial arts (MMA) bouts. The event was highlighted by the undefeated Yakob Kashuba's intense match against Kane Musa, where Kashuba's grappling skills and physicality were on full display. The co-main event saw Abdul Abdul Ragimov, known as the 'Lazy King,' in a gripping contest with Jack Grant, where both fighters showcased their grappling prowess. The main event was an anticipated clash between Cedric Dumay and Baki Shamov, which ended abruptly due to an injury sustained by Dumay. The night was a testament to the skill and resilience of the fighters, leaving fans eager for more.

Takeaways

  • πŸ₯Š Yakob Kashuba remains undefeated in his mixed martial arts career, showcasing his physicality and incredible cardio.
  • πŸ† Kane Musa, a veteran of the game, is determined to make an impact in his MMA career and challenge Kashuba's title.
  • πŸ“Š Kashuba and Musa's fight was a strategic battle, with Kashuba using his size advantage and Musa relying on his speed and footwork.
  • πŸ₯‹ The fight was a close match, with both fighters displaying high-level skills and determination to win.
  • πŸ† The PFL Europe season aims to crown regional champions and build a path to global recognition and potential millionaire status.
  • 🌟 The event in Paris was a significant milestone, being the largest MMA event in the country's history.
  • πŸŽ‰ The main event featured Cedric Dumay, an undefeated French fighter, in a highly anticipated match against Baki Shamov.
  • πŸ€• The main event ended with an unusual twist, as Dumay suffered an injury that led to a technical knockout victory for Shamov.
  • 🀝 Both Dumay and Shamov expressed a desire to rematch and settle the score in a more conclusive manner.
  • 🌐 The PFL Europe season's success in Paris sets the stage for future events and highlights the growth of MMA in Europe.

Q & A

  • Who is Yakob Kashuba and what is his record in the PFL Europe season in 2023?

    -Yakob Kashuba is a mixed martial arts fighter who was undefeated in the PFL Europe season in 2023. He is known for his physicality, size, and incredible cardio which helped him through tough matchups.

  • What was the outcome of the fight between Yakob Kashuba and Kane Musa?

    -Yakob Kashuba won the fight against Kane Musa by unanimous decision after three rounds of action.

  • What is the significance of the PFL Europe Championship?

    -The PFL Europe Championship is a prestigious title in the world of mixed martial arts. It represents the highest level of achievement within the PFL Europe circuit and the winner of the championship can potentially earn a significant amount of money, as mentioned with the $100,000 championship at the end of the year.

  • Who is the main event fighter, Cedric Dumay, facing in the main event?

    -Cedric Dumay, the main event fighter, is facing Baki Sham Sudanov in the main event.

  • What was the unusual event that led to the end of the main event fight between Cedric Dumay and Baki Sham Sudanov?

    -The main event fight ended unusually when Cedric Dumay suffered an injury, possibly a sliver in his toe, and despite wanting to continue, the referee declared a technical knockout victory for Baki Sham Sudanov due to the self-inflicted injury.

  • What was the reaction of the fighters and the audience to the ending of the main event?

    -Both fighters and the audience were surprised and somewhat disappointed by the anticlimactic ending of the main event. Cedric Dumay expressed his desire to continue fighting, and Baki Sham Sudanov acknowledged that the win was not how he wanted to win.

  • What was the general atmosphere of the event?

    -The event was highly anticipated and had a sold-out crowd at the Accor Arena in Paris. The atmosphere was electric, with fans eagerly awaiting the performances of the fighters, especially the main event.

  • What is the significance of the PFL Europe regular season bouts?

    -The PFL Europe regular season bouts are important as they help determine the fighters who will advance to the playoffs and eventually compete for the European Championship and a chance to become millionaires and potential legends in the sport.

  • What was the strategy for Yakob Kashuba in his fight against Kane Musa?

    -Yakob Kashuba's strategy was to expect early pressure from Musa, strike in the clinch, get in top position, and use his physical size advantage. He also aimed to weather any early storm and then dominate in the second round to potentially steal the belt.

  • What was the strategy for Kane Musa in his fight against Yakob Kashuba?

    -Kane Musa's strategy was to attack Kashuba's lead leg, anticipate level changes, use smart footwork and composure, and avoid getting drawn into a brawl when it wasn't necessary.

Outlines

00:00

πŸ₯Š Yakob Kashuba's Dominance and Kane Musa's Experience

The script introduces Yakob Kashuba, an undefeated mixed martial arts fighter known for his physicality and incredible cardio. It highlights his tough matchups and victories, including a second-round TKO over John Mitchell. The narrative contrasts Kashuba's raw power with Kane Musa's veteran experience, emphasizing Musa's strategic approach and his readiness to face Kashuba, the reigning champion. The script sets the stage for a high-stakes battle, with both fighters aiming for the $100,000 championship at the end of the year.

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πŸ† Size and Skill: Kashuba vs. Musa

The script delves into the matchup between Yakob Kashuba and Kane Musa, focusing on their physical differences and fighting styles.

Mindmap

Keywords

πŸ’‘Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

MMA is a full-contact combat sport that allows striking and grappling, both standing and on the ground, using techniques from various combat sports and martial arts. In the video, MMA is the central theme as it showcases various fighters competing in this sport, highlighting their physicality, skill, and strategy.

πŸ’‘Physicality

Physicality in the context of MMA refers to the fighters' physical attributes, such as strength, size, and endurance, which can significantly impact the outcome of a match. The video emphasizes the physicality of fighters like Yakob Kashuba, who is described as having incredible cardio and size advantage.

πŸ’‘Cardio

Cardio, short for cardiovascular endurance, is the ability of the heart and lungs to supply oxygen to the muscles during prolonged physical activity. In MMA, good cardio is crucial for fighters to maintain their performance throughout a match. The video mentions Kashuba's incredible cardio as a key factor in his success.

πŸ’‘Takedowns

Takedowns in MMA are techniques used to bring an opponent to the ground, often to gain a dominant position or initiate ground-and-pound attacks. The video discusses the importance of takedowns in the fighters' strategies, particularly for Kashuba, who uses them to control the pace of the fight.

πŸ’‘Championship

In the context of the video, a championship refers to the title or belt that is awarded to the winner of a series of fights or a tournament in MMA. The championship is a symbol of prestige and accomplishment in the sport.

πŸ’‘Veteran

A veteran in MMA is an experienced fighter who has been competing for a significant amount of time. Veterans often bring a wealth of knowledge, skill, and strategy to their fights.

πŸ’‘Undefeated

An undefeated fighter is one who has not lost any of their professional fights. This status is highly regarded in combat sports as it signifies consistent performance and skill.

πŸ’‘Strategy

Strategy in MMA involves the planned approach a fighter takes to win a match, including the selection of techniques, pacing, and positioning. A good strategy can exploit an opponent's weaknesses and maximize the fighter's strengths.

πŸ’‘Submission

A submission in MMA is a technique that forces an opponent to tap out, signaling defeat, usually by applying a choke or a joint lock. Submissions are a key aspect of grappling and are often used to end fights.

πŸ’‘Knockout

A knockout (KO) in MMA occurs when a fighter is rendered unconscious or unable to continue fighting due to a strike. A KO victory is a significant achievement and often results in a fighter gaining recognition and respect.

Highlights

Yakob Kashuba remains undefeated in his MMA career, showcasing his physicality, size, and incredible cardio.

Kane Musa, a veteran of the game, is aware of the challenge he faces against Kashuba, the reigning champion.

Kashuba's victory over John Mitchell with a second-round TKO at the PFL European Championship is a testament to his resilience.

K Musa, known for his dangerous fighting style, is determined to make his opponent call him 'the danger'.

The significant size disparity between Kashuba and Musa is a key factor in their matchup, with Kashuba being the larger fighter.

Kashuba's strategy involves using his physical size advantage and grappling skills, while Musa focuses on smart footwork and striking.

Kashuba's impressive performance against Musa, including a level change and a drive, demonstrates his versatility in the fight.

Musa's defense against Kashuba's takedowns and his ability to scramble back to his feet show his resilience and skill.

The judges' scorecards for the bout between Kashuba and Musa are closely contested, reflecting the intensity of the fight.

Yakob Kashuba wins by unanimous decision, maintaining his undefeated status and setting up a playoff matchup against Daniela Scati.

The PFL Europe regular season continues with a lightweight contest between Yassine Capa and Yazid Shushan, both known for their striking power.

Capa's knockout victory over Shushan with a perfectly timed uppercut showcases his skill and moves him to the playoffs.

The welterweight tilt between Ibrahim Ammane and Shaka Noo Pedro features a grueling battle with both fighters displaying impressive grappling and striking.

Abdul Abdul Haimov, known as the 'Lazy King', is a fan favorite and grappling phenom, preparing to make a statement in his return to the smart cage.

The co-main event features a welterweight showdown between Jack Grant and Abdul Abdul Haimov, with both fighters known for their submission skills.

The main event of the evening is a welterweight clash between Cedric Dumay and Baki Shamov, with Dumay being an undefeated kickboxing world champion.

Cedric Dumay's fight against Baki Shamov ends in a controversial TKO victory for Shamov due to an injury sustained by Dumay.

Transcripts

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[Music]

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yakob kashuba undefeated so far in his

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mixed martial arts career came in as a

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relative unknown to the pfl Europe

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season in

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2023 but his physicality his size his

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incredible cardio really just carried

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him through some tough tough matchups

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survived Radu

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Maxim battled it out with Dylan tuque

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had to reverse the momentum in that

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fight and then at the pfl European

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Championship knees and punches a second

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round TKO over John Mitchell three five

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minute rounds between yakob kashuba and

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Kane Musa who did not shy away from this

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as a veteran of the game he knows

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exactly what he's up against he knows

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he's the smaller fighter here Kane mus

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knows that yakob kashuba is undefeated

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and is the guy to beat because he won

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the belt last year you said that's

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exactly what I want I mean k Musa was

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sitting at the side of the smart cage in

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Dublin as soon as as soon as kassu had

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the belt around his waist I looked over

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at K Musa and he was doing that Sinister

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rubbing together of the hands that he

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does we're going to see it tonight as

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well K muser is a veteran he's a

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dangerous fighter and he's fresh even

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though he's a little bit older in his

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career he's been training for a long

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time but he's a smart individual the one

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danger with K Musa danger being his

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nickname is that he can get drawn in

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sometimes if he sniff the victory he FS

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that blood in the water and he chases

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for it and we know from yakob cba's last

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fight you just can't do that he can come

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through an a weather an early storm and

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stick it on you in the second round and

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steal that belt from underneath you as

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we welcome in our YouTube audience again

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look this is pfl Europe regular season

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action last year's Champion yakob

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kassuba Kane Musa an absolute veteran

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explosive power incredible

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athleticism all trying to build toward a

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$100,000 championship at the end of this

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year as we create the model the

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Champions League model of mixed martial

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arts you take the regions Crown

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champions in those regions Europe proof

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of concept last year obviously Middle

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East North Africa is launching this year

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the Champions there will eventually

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build toward our Global roster where

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they can make themselves into

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Millionaires and potentially Legends

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like Stephan stru Dan Hardy I'm Shan

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oconnell look at this in the building

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now here at a soldout acore Arena Baki

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sham sud bison Gore The 22-year-old

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Undefeated Prospect chni and descent

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proud representative of France now and a

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guy who is looking to spoil the Cedric

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Doom Bay party in the main

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event

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introducing first in the blue Corner K

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Musa

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really it's appropriate that we see Kan

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Musa here in pfl Europe he's fought all

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over Europe he's fought for 15 years

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which means he he came up in some of the

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promotions in Europe that really laid

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the foundation but are now extinct he's

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been everywhere he's fought really high

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level guys but he's never really broken

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through in a way that pfl Europe

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Championship would allow him to Kan Musa

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calls himself the danger his coaches

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call him the danger because he's

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dangerous as hell and he's goal is to

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make his opponent call him the danger

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here he is at the side of the smart cage

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right now and you you can tell how much

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he enjoys this moment look at

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this this is his moment in K Moose's

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mind this is his year he has to make a

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big impact in his MMA career this year

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and I think he feels like a 14 and five

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this is the moment that he's going to

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really show people what he's capable of

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we're going to show you how old he is in

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the tail of the tape but I told you

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already he's a 15-year veteran on the

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due the math on that he's been fighting

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since he was 16 years old and I'm sure

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he had a few more sit before then as

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well and in the Red Corner

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y

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one thing you're going to see when these

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two square off inside the smart cage is

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a significant size disparity yakob

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kassuba is a massive lightweight I spoke

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with him at the hotel he said end of

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January I hopped on the scale and I was

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195 lbs oh you let yourself get a little

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soft in the offseason he said no I still

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had a six-pack but I was 195 lb he

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weighed in

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at the limit of 155 lbs and that means

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tonight as he climbs in with rehydration

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he could be walking right now anywhere

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from 170 to 190 lb and he's lean he's

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shredded he's confident and the thing

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that's scary about him even in the face

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off the other night of the Eiffel Tower

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they stared in each other's eyes K moose

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has got an intensity and yakob Kuma's

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got this kind of awkward smile on his

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face like this is kind of unique he's a

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very interesting and unusual character

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the auditor as his nickname but when he

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steps in here this the other side of

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this same coin he's a lethal dangerous

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man he can take you back and squeeze the

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life out of you he can put punches

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together with ferocity and power but

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does he want to do that tonight with K

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Musa wrestling and grappling and using

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that physical imposing brows might be

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the right thing to do

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[Music]

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tonight

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here's a look at our tail of the tape

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for this regular season bout yakob

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kashuba 28 years old K Musa is 31

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kashuba 5' 11 in tall Kan Musa is 59 the

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reach advantage of 4 in belongs to yakob

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kashuba on the arms both men with 40-in

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measurement on the

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leg all right so keys to victory for

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these two phenomenal fighters of course

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yakob cba's got to expect that early

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pressure and if he can strike St in the

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clinch and even get in top position

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that's where that physical size is going

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to be problematic for Kane on musa's

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side he's got to attack that lead leg

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take away the movement uppercuts her

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knees anticipating the level change and

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then smart footwork and smart composure

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as well not getting drawn into a brawl

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when he doesn't need

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to Andy Shepard the voice of the smart

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cage the following a fight is a pfl

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Europe regular season contest in the

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lightweight division introducing first

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fighting out of the blue corner he is a

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striking specialist and stands 5'9 in

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tall he weighed officially at

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155.5 lb and in his 19th fight career as

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a a record of 14 victories and five

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defeats fighting out of Manchester

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England K the danger

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[Applause]

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MOA and his opponent fighting out of the

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Red Corner he is a kickboxing specialist

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and PS 5' 11 in tall he waited

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officially at

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[Music]

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154.181

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2023 pfl Europe lightweight

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champion the

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udor yakob

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[Applause]

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casba your referee judge L

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[Music]

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POR kashuba in the black trunks Musa in

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the blue you know what's even scary

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about

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katuba that size doesn't affect him his

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car CIO is insanely good yeah he he

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carries it incredibly well as he moves

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in behind a jab and high kick to follow

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same

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side both of those were lefts for Musa

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though being the smaller fighter doesn't

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have to be a disadvantage again against

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someone as physically strong as kasuba

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you don't want to make it a physical

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battle you want to move around him being

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smaller being lighter especially with

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the footwork Musa has it could be an

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advantage and this is the Smart footwork

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we've been seeing from kza here early

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getting out of range when he needs to

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beautiful you'll see him try to play the

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speed and footwork game for this entire

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fight and of course yakob kashuba will

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try to press him potentially take him

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down freeze those feet where he can use

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beauti this is strength nice timing good

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balance so far by Musa though this is

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where the size comes in Advantage for

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katuba and this is the first time k mo

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has got to feel the strength of of yakob

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kassuba as well he's looking for a high

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crotch seems good defense

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by by Musa there but I was going to say

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kba had him down a beautiful way to get

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back up by

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Musa anytime Kane can be winning these

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grapping exchanges scrambling back to

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his feet he's going to be discouraging

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yakob kassuba potentially even training

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the gas tank if he had a big weight cut

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this K moose is going to now try and

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break and start to strike but that's

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lovely work from cassu on the inside

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there and you see now he's triggered K

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Musa to fight that's dangerous because

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this is where K Musa can rush into those

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takedowns of

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[Music]

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kassuba a right and left from kba that

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[Music]

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2-1 another level change and an uppercut

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on the exit kashuba looking for his

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openings as Kane moves around

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really good job from Musa so far being

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patient moving out of the way every

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single time katuba tries to close the

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distance and this for me is the is the

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fight that kassuba needs in his MMA

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career not his pfl career last year he

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beat a lot of really tough prospects go

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to the back he WN the European title if

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he if he beats a veteran here that's a

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big statement and this is a strong tight

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Wati that he's got on K Musa shots there

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puts a lot of away Musa here makes some

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work tires him out Musa is going to have

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to be careful as he tries to work

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himself back uppr right with kassuba on

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his

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back good hand fighting here from K Musa

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fighting his time but he's got to be

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very cautious that kassuba doesn't

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switch his attack here front headlock

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potentially level change onto the legs

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kba so incredibly

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strong Cuba there with that cheese

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grater drag acoss the

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fence now trying to work all the way

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around to the back goes chest to chest

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instead nice job by Musa to get back to

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do 5050 position

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here driving KNE on the inside from

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yakob kashuba look we got the

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physicality of K kassuba and the

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experience of K Musa trying to be

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efficient he's going to break the clinch

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here I think and he's going to try and

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strike but kassuba is not going to let

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him get away for free heavy tight

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overhook on that right arm of Kane Musa

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yakob kashuba though head in the wrong

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position right

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now and again as we said earlier on

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being a smaller fighter in this position

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against the fence pays off usually

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because it's easier to get your head

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into right

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position oh strikes nice flurry and a

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finish with two uppercuts yakob kashuba

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showing the versatility in his game

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here

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and ni good level change again wow he

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just he drops straight down and then

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Begins the drive great timing on those

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shots tuck that leg between his own

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knees and pulls Kan Musa to the mat and

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now climbing into a mount position yakob

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katuba 42 seconds left in this first

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round katuba looking for the wrist ride

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now you can put Musa on the on the on

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the mat but good defense Again by Musa

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he's going to get back up

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and we go back to yakob cba's First

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regular season win last year with that

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beautiful submission over Ru

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Maxim he's constantly trying to expose

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the back of K Musa musa's wise to it but

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he's losing this round on the grappling

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in my eyes right

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now final 10 seconds of round number one

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in exchange of knees really good job by

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Musa in his first round defending

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against katuba but katuba really had him

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spend a lot of energy to the stools they

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go k Musa hangs his arms on the cage

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yakob kba heads back to the stool as we

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look at these replays at the timing on

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this level change and this is where K

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muser comes in with these big Power

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shots and before he knows it yakob

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kassuba just disappeared from in front

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of him and now he's defending takedowns

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which he was doing for the vast majority

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of that first round that's got a

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cardivascular attacked to

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it

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the VIPs have started to trickle in here

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at the acor French raer black

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m a slow down on the

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instruction so you know when he's going

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shots okay look for more

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shots Shan Connell Stephen stru Dan

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Hardy bfl Europe Paris driving towards

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the main

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event Cedric Dumay climbs back into the

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smart cage against Baki sham

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sudanov right now yakob kashuba last

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year's European champion in the

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lightweight division in the black trunks

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against Kane mua Kane Musa in the

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blue bit of a lower stance here from

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Kane Musa

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Al Cedric Doom Jordan Zebo Crouch down

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to try and meet that level

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change kassuba very fresh in the corner

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between rounds Eyes Wide Open breathing

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calm listening to his Corner team and he

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moves forward

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here inside leg kick and kashuba tries

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to use that this time Kane does not

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allow him to get all the way in on the

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hips Musa trying to break again but

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there he lands nice right

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hand now he's got kasuba moving

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backwards that might have hurt a little

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bit more than the initial

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[Music]

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thought I certainly think the grappling

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that K mus had to deal with in that

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first round as filled his arms with

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lactate you can tell he's a little bit

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more labored in his movement now with

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his

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arms better work here with his taked

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down defense back to an orthodox stance

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after a brief change to Southpaw for

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Kane

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[Applause]

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Musa barely missed with her right hand

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upper cut by katuba there looks like we

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have a cut above the eye of Jakob

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kassuba as well deep breath for K Musa

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and some swelling around his eye as well

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K

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Musa good second round for Musa so far I

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want to see him throw more of these leg

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kicks B and then throw the

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kick upper cut landed there for

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Musa doing a much better job of meating

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that Forward Motion in those level

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changes now kassuba offers a kick

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blocked by the

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[Music]

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shoulder good coaching from the corner

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of Musa don't overdo it they shouted

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they know that Rush forward is dangerous

17:23

kassuba will level

17:26

[Music]

17:27

change

17:30

subba really struggling this second

17:32

round to get a hold of of of Musa circle

17:34

circle nowes K Musa back right in front

17:37

of our broadcast position halfway

17:39

through round number two but Musa

17:41

reverses position puts him self toward

17:44

the cage center of the cage he he really

17:48

uses you know being smaller in that

17:50

position he puts his head under the chin

17:53

of katuba turns him around and takes

17:55

center of the stage again and now he's

17:58

back to the Striking Distance shots

18:00

beautiful body shot by kassuba they were

18:02

solid body shots by kassuba I think that

18:05

he felt the effect of the body shots

18:07

from Kan Musa and it might have reminded

18:09

him hey I've got some of those too

18:11

offered some back remember he won the

18:13

season last year he won the finale with

18:15

a body shot and now Musa with the level

18:18

change drives

18:19

it great balance from kassuba though

18:23

hops over to the fence he's got his

18:25

overhook and he's landed a few short

18:26

shots on the inside which allowed him to

18:28

dig an

18:29

underhook and now

18:34

returns see M trying to Pummel

18:37

in get his arm up above that shoulder

18:40

but it's tall tall yakob

18:43

kassuba he goes again nice knee on the

18:46

inside good uppercut and more body shots

18:49

from

18:50

Musa both Fighters digging to the body

18:53

in the second round great shots by Musa

18:57

there

18:59

tell you what those exchanges on the

19:01

brakes have been Furious both guys have

19:03

landed here in the round number two

19:05

there

19:07

[Music]

19:11

byba another

19:15

one final minute of round

19:18

two CBA slowing down a little bit in

19:21

this round is he a little bit

19:22

discouraged did that did that shot to

19:24

the body hurt him maybe they were nice

19:26

shots on the inside they'll hurt for

19:29

sure they'll take the the wind out of

19:30

your sale especially when you're already

19:32

tired beautiful level change turns it

19:35

around that right there is evidence of

19:37

how and why yakob kashuba was able to

19:39

take home the European championship last

19:42

year the timing and the execution of

19:45

that shot nearly perfect putting Musa

19:48

once again on the defensive stying any

19:52

offensive output late in this round

19:54

potentially stealing a very close

19:56

round great job again the by mus to get

19:59

back up his defense after the take Downs

20:03

is excellent so

20:05

far interesting round to score this one

20:08

I'd like to check in with Big John

20:10

McCarthy I know is's watching with great

20:12

interest perhaps we can get him between

20:22

rounds heavy breaths from both fighters

20:25

heading back to the stool as we head to

20:27

the third frame

20:31

hey jab High underneath right upper

20:34

carut he's leaning into you every time

20:37

every time you Punch's putting his head

20:39

down come underneath and stay tight and

20:42

then walk out with the three boom walk

20:45

away with the

20:46

three it worked all right first half of

20:49

that round how's your legs your legs all

20:52

right his leg one time

20:55

for the lazy King is in the building

20:58

building Abdul

21:00

abdulov one half of our co-main event

21:13

tonight come on come on come on come

21:19

on round three set to begin here in

21:22

Paris

21:23

France Shan oconnell Stephan stru Dan

21:26

Hardy on the call Big John karthy

21:28

potentially set to join us here yakob

21:32

kashuba Kane Musa kashuba in the black

21:35

Musa in the

21:38

blue very close round number two big

21:41

John how do we score this fight through

21:42

two frames you know it is very close if

21:45

K Musa did a lot of good bodyw work in

21:47

that second round he might have stolen

21:49

that round with those body shots that

21:51

the judges were seeing but the big thing

21:53

with Musa that he needs to stop doing he

21:55

needs to not go after the big shot he's

21:58

got power and all he's got to do is

22:00

touch touch touch and that'll lead him

22:02

into the shot that'll do damage but

22:04

right now this could be anyone's fight

22:06

in this third round thank you big John

22:09

couple of nice left hands from the

22:10

Southpaw stance but Kane Musa now he

22:12

switches back to Orthodox goes overand

22:15

right back to Southpaw giving different

22:18

looks to yakob kashuba potentially

22:20

trying to confuse a level change

22:22

attempt nasty inside work here from

22:25

kashuba who presses Musa into the cage

22:28

every single time katuba has got a hold

22:30

of of Musa though he does a really good

22:32

job controlling the arms so that katuba

22:35

can lock his hands so that he cannot

22:37

finish the

22:38

takedowns he could finish here I think

22:40

he's got his hands locked

22:42

now single

22:46

leg great defense again from K

22:50

[Music]

22:54

Musa this is

22:56

what winning Musa these exchanges in the

23:00

clinch he turns katuba around takes

23:03

center of the of the cage again he lands

23:08

and he's back to where he wants to

23:09

[Applause]

23:11

be flash ah heads there on the inside

23:14

work and this time it's Kane Musa who

23:17

rushes forward plants yakob kba's back

23:20

on the smart cage barrier more body work

23:22

from Musa and a reversal of position

23:25

here from kassuba the 2023 lightweight

23:27

champ champion of vfl

23:31

Europe chasing the take down yet again

23:34

but again good defense from

23:38

Musa trying to go to the back now he can

23:40

lock his hands good

23:42

def Musa reached in between the legs of

23:45

kashuba there thought about the switch

23:47

kashuba just pressed in to negate it now

23:50

onto the back goes

23:52

kashuba now he's got him off the fence

23:55

see if he can do more with this now

24:04

especially in this third round these

24:05

posss take so much energy and your body

24:09

is screaming for

24:12

oxygen good knee there by

24:16

kba it was going to take someone like K

24:18

Musa to really push yakob kassuba with

24:21

his experience those body shots still

24:23

thundering in two minutes left

24:26

here very grinding tough

24:30

fight arm strikes in favor of Musa leg

24:33

strikes in favor of yakob kassuba of

24:35

course takedowns in favor of kassuba

24:38

which leaves him with the ground strikes

24:40

Advantage as well good uppercut and left

24:42

hook back atuba there on the break now

24:44

double under Cooks in a body lock

24:46

kashuba expending some energy here

24:48

trying to get Kan Musa back down to the

24:52

[Music]

24:55

mat kba will try to pull MO back over

24:58

his own planted right

25:02

leg good job by Musa pressing down on

25:04

the

25:05

hands of

25:07

katuba that way he's not able to lift

25:09

him makes it very difficult for him to

25:11

finish a Tak down he's got him down but

25:15

not completely not on his

25:18

back takes the back though kouba just

25:21

grinding out this third round spiral

25:24

ride temporarily

25:26

there

25:28

Kane Musa not capitulating not giving up

25:31

any of these positions

25:33

easily he's got one of the legs of

25:36

katuba M's got to be careful not to get

25:39

his own arm pulled

25:43

back they're calling for the scramble

25:46

from the Musa corner but that just

25:48

allows kassuba to Circle and stay on his

25:52

back heavy wrestling game from yakob

25:54

kassuba nullifying a lot of K's offense

25:58

final 30 seconds here in the third round

26:02

I'm happy I'm on com commentary and not

26:04

a judge in this fight cuz it's so so

26:07

close that's why we have some of the

26:09

best judges in the world here because we

26:11

know these fights are going to be

26:12

toughly contested between these two

26:14

veterans like

26:17

this good Hustle by both of these

26:19

Fighters really impressive

26:22

Pace just a grinder of a fight in the

26:26

lightweight division of efl Europe last

26:29

year's champion yakob kashuba and Kane

26:32

Musa really high level stuff the

26:38

fans offering their opinion but perhaps

26:41

not appreciating just how grueling that

26:43

performance was for both of these

26:45

Fighters but both of these guys are

26:47

exhausted and they're both supremely

26:49

conditioned as well yakob kassuba really

26:51

taking some deep breaths as well as

26:54

walking around with his arms in the air

26:55

but what a battle that that

26:58

was we'll head to the judge's

27:01

scorecards will yakob kashuba remain

27:03

undefeated or will Kane Musa pull off

27:05

the

27:08

upset how about Cedric Doom Bay one half

27:11

for the main event walking in the

27:14

soldout acore

27:17

arena Cedric the

27:20

best undefeated in mix martial arts

27:24

multiple time world champion as a pro

27:27

kick

27:32

[Music]

27:37

[Applause]

27:39

[Music]

27:43

boxer here's a look at the kinomic postf

27:46

fight stats yakob kashuba and Kane Musa

27:51

high output fight the takedown Advantage

27:54

you can see very significant for yakob

27:56

kashuba six of his seven attempts he was

27:59

able to get Kan Musa down will that be

28:01

the difference on the judge's

28:03

[Music]

28:18

scorecard I would not like to like to

28:20

have to score this one I mean it was a

28:22

real battle I'm edging with cassu of

28:24

course because he was dominant with his

28:26

grappling but you know these are such

28:28

tightly contested matches and Kane

28:30

landed some thunderous body shots and

28:32

opened up a cut on the face of the of

28:34

the former champion last year's Champion

28:37

uh I I think I think it was anybody's

28:40

fight heading into that third round and

28:42

I think the strategy might have just

28:43

done it for yakob kashuba the

28:46

auditor he does things in a very

28:48

cerebral manner even this early in his

28:50

career and I see Andy Shepard has made

28:53

his appearance with the official

28:55

scorecards ladies and gentlemen after

28:57

three rounds of action we go to the

29:00

judges scorecards all three judges scor

29:03

this bout

29:04

2928 for your winner by unanimous

29:08

decision yob

29:12

kba impressive performance by the

29:15

returning Champion looking to win a

29:17

second title in 2024 he looks elated and

29:21

a little relieved I have to admit and I

29:23

think he's standing with sha oconnell

29:25

let's see what the champ has to say

29:27

yakob kashuba Victorious here tonight in

29:31

Paris you won a pfl European

29:33

championship in 20123 you decided you

29:36

wanted to try going back to back here in

29:39

2024 but a tough test in the first

29:42

outing did that fight go the way you

29:44

thought it was going

29:47

[Music]

29:54

to what' she say uh well correction I

29:58

was put here and I'm very happy to be

30:00

here if I could choose I would probably

30:02

do it again just cuz when I get ready

30:04

for the bellor guys right and this was

30:06

my first test and I got another one so

30:08

welcome to the pfl

30:09

Bellator uh yeah this was a great test I

30:12

expected more out of myself but win is a

30:15

win I did what I had to do I'm going to

30:18

keep

30:24

going I'm coming again for that belt so

30:27

those all the other 55s be scared

30:30

because this guy was no

30:43

joke so the the season is starting to

30:46

take shape this victory over Kan Musa

30:49

sets up a playoff matchup against

30:52

Daniela skati he won with a beautiful

30:55

inside heel hook earlier tonight what do

30:57

you think of the match up I'm excited

30:59

it's great but like I said the toughest

31:01

guy is out of here so I'm ready to take

31:04

this guy and uh but he seems like a cool

31:06

kid so I'm I'm happy to shake his

31:20

hand still undefeated yakob kachuba

31:26

congratulations

31:31

all right talking of Bellator we've got

31:33

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31:46

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31:48

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31:50

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they're going to go super quick like

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they did for this event

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32:16

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[Music]

32:42

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32:45

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32:47

these two fighters will move on in our

32:50

lightweight

32:51

[Applause]

32:54

bracket it's France versus Spain ban in

32:58

a lightweight feature and the acor is

33:01

full soldout

33:03

show highly anticipated return to the

33:06

smart cage for Abdul Abdul AA the lazy

33:09

King same is true of course for Cedric

33:12

Dumay but first business to attend to in

33:15

our regular season yazid Shon ignasio

33:24

[Music]

33:25

CAPA

33:31

making their way to the pfl Europe cage

33:33

in the blue Corner ignio

33:40

[Applause]

33:46

cap he's on a seven fight win streak and

33:49

he is a finisher five

33:53

Knockouts one submission only one of his

33:56

fight so far as a bro has gone to the

33:59

judge's

34:00

scorecards ignasio Capa here to prove

34:04

himself on the pfl Europe

34:07

stage this was a guy that I had to add

34:10

in to this bracket as soon as I saw him

34:12

fight there's an intensity to this guy

34:15

there we go there it is we saw it at the

34:18

weighin yesterday we saw it at the

34:20

official weighin in the morning where he

34:21

steps up to the scales cuts his

34:23

waistband off his underway to step on

34:25

the scales and make wait the

34:28

determination and fury in this guy you

34:31

can see it emanating from

34:39

him and in the Red Corner yazid

34:44

[Applause]

34:55

shush former pro rugby player yazid

35:01

Shong 10 Pro

35:03

victories he's been all over the world

35:06

porn one in UAE Warriors representative

35:10

and the little Hometown pop he's from

35:12

aong here in

35:15

France strong grappling Arts Judo

35:18

background a very physical

35:22

fighter one of the fighters who was very

35:24

impressive on the card last September

35:26

had a really hard battle against a

35:28

tricky a tricky fighter but of course

35:31

yazid shushan he tucks up and he stands

35:34

in the pocket and he throws Bombs Over

35:36

the Top and we also saw strong grappling

35:39

at grounder pound last September let's

35:41

see what he has tonight against ignasio

35:44

Capa this for me was a stylistic matchup

35:46

that I just had to make I know that this

35:49

is going to ignite the fans it's going

35:50

to be a wild one from the

35:53

GetGo yeah I can see really see what you

35:56

did with this match making then and uh

35:59

like our man Shan okono both these guys

36:01

don't have a reverse so this is going to

36:04

be firew start to

36:08

finish the best kind of Fighters are

36:10

like motorcycles no reverse

36:15

gear yazzi shashan ignatio Capa tail of

36:18

the tape shashan is 34 Capa is 31 both

36:22

men 5' 7 in

36:24

tall 2in reach advantage on the arms

36:27

belonging to shashan 2 in in capa's

36:31

favor on the

36:33

[Music]

36:36

legs all right let's take a look at the

36:38

keys to victory for yis shushan punches

36:41

in bunches it's about volume disguise

36:43

the level change when he can and when he

36:45

hits the ground be busy with his ground

36:47

and pound so he keeps his opponent on

36:49

the back foot but Capa faint and move

36:52

front kicks and knees might deter that

36:54

level change and if he does get into a

36:56

grapple he's got to win those scrambles

36:58

and get back to his feet where he can

36:59

start firing those hands

37:01

[Music]

37:04

again the voice of the smart cage Andy

37:06

sheer ladies and gentlemen the following

37:09

fight is a lightweight contest in the

37:11

pfl Europe regular season introducing

37:15

first fighting out of the blue corner he

37:17

is a boxing specialist and stands 5' 7

37:20

Ines tall he weighed officially at

37:23

156 lb and hold a record of s wins and

37:27

one loss five big victories coming by

37:31

way of knockout fighting out of Mana

37:36

Spain

37:38

Osio

37:39

[Music]

37:46

[Applause]

37:49

cape and his opponent fighting out of

37:51

the Red Corner he is a striking

37:53

specialist and stands 5' 7 in tall he

37:56

weighed officially at

37:59

154.000 lb and his professional record

38:02

consists of 10 victories and four

38:04

defeats fighting out of Avenue

38:08

France yazid

38:16

shush the referee charge Mark Gard get

38:19

him

38:24

out Mark G see this regular season

38:27

action Ison in the black ignasio Capa in

38:33

the

38:35

blue touch of the gloves and we are

38:37

underway rounding out our lightweight

38:46

bracket look at the size of these guys

38:48

at

38:49

lightweight both of them very powerful

38:52

and they love to Wing powerful hooks as

38:54

well in the pocket I feel like like when

38:56

this ignites it's going to go

39:04

down ni nice jab in the right hand from

39:07

y sh and there's those winging hooks

39:10

both man offered a

39:14

couple looks to me already like like

39:17

shushan has a slight speed Advantage oh

39:21

through the middle nice job by shushan

39:23

there great movement oh oh stiff jab by

39:28

and a right hand he's got Shan on skates

39:31

swinging away

39:33

Nowa forces the level

39:37

chain this is what we expected this is

39:39

what we

39:43

wanted all the way

39:46

through Furious pace and just like you

39:48

said Dan Hardy when it starts it's going

39:51

to go up quickly and Caper is now going

39:54

to try and get these arms free as soon

39:56

as he can can because he needs to keep

39:58

touching yazid shashan to keep him dazed

40:01

and keep him hurt well talk about the

40:03

recovery of yaid shashan who went from

40:06

stumbling around to executing a

40:08

beautiful toss but finds himself on the

40:11

bottom position here Shan needs to get

40:14

his right leg back underneath him and

40:16

work with the fence to get back up but

40:19

capa's got a body locks so that makes it

40:22

difficult as I familiarize myself with

40:25

the European mixed martial art

40:26

I'm fting it we've got to be watching

40:28

out for these butterfly hooks we can see

40:30

them here we can see the feet poking

40:32

through here he's going to try and

40:34

Elevate his opponent either way try and

40:36

create a scramble you can see the

40:37

overhook here as well he's going to use

40:39

that to control the base of his opponent

40:42

I expect shushan to try and tip him over

40:44

here with these butterfly hooks now you

40:46

can see Capa has passed the knee line

40:49

here the knee line is passed beautiful

40:52

work here by shishan to get his knees

40:53

back into play though little Blood on

40:55

the cheek of ya

40:56

not sure where that's coming from maybe

40:59

just a tiny cut it's a little swelling

41:02

under the eye as

41:04

well no surprise cuz both the guys will

41:08

swinging now Capa with the hooks again

41:11

on the stand

41:13

upan circles out maybe on some unsteady

41:16

legs

41:17

[Applause]

41:21

here just a little quicker to the Target

41:23

sometimes cap now and that I don't think

41:25

that's what speed thing I think it's a I

41:28

think it's a trajectory thing think he

41:30

slightly tighter on the inside Shan gets

41:33

a little bit loopy with these big

41:35

punches yeah both guys had most Success

41:38

Through the

41:39

middle when their opponent open up with

41:43

those big shots there there's the swing

41:45

again the speed of shashan he looks like

41:48

he's got his head clear now Capa just

41:51

throws caution to the wind every time he

41:53

unleashes a hook very very dangerous to

41:56

do in this fight because of the speed

41:57

we're seeing shashan put on

42:00

display we got

42:02

19 they traded a jab for a hook there

42:05

and I'm not sure who got the better of

42:07

it shashan needs to keep that that right

42:10

hand on his chin when he's throwing his

42:12

left hook I show him a Dan Hardy fight

42:14

where I got knocked out and I paid for

42:16

the same thing drop the hand because I'm

42:18

swinging with power and my opponent

42:20

caught me clean on the chin he's got to

42:22

be very cautious those swiping punches

42:25

from got mean intentions there's a driv

42:29

take down attempt here from shashan good

42:31

scrawl so far from Capa who gets his

42:33

hips all the way out now the guard Pole

42:36

from yazid shashan with one minute left

42:38

in round

42:40

one I wonder if we'll see him go back to

42:42

those butterfly Hooks and maybe try and

42:44

threaten a sweep here again but he looks

42:46

like he's clamping down on one of the

42:47

arms of Capo we might see him kick his

42:49

hips out to the side and potentially

42:51

Attack One of These

42:55

Arms

43:04

30 seconds left in this first round has

43:07

it only been one

43:08

round L oftion packed into these first 4

43:11

and a half

43:13

minutes ignasio Capa on top of yazid

43:16

shash doing a good job with his with his

43:18

head come on guys let work controlling

43:22

[Music]

43:25

shushan final 10 seconds Goddard thought

43:28

of stepping in and separating but he'll

43:30

let him ride out the round there's ichan

43:33

finishing on the

43:34

bottom great fight so far as we head to

43:37

round

43:39

two careful down there on the back of

43:42

the let me have a look at what happened

43:44

here because I it was so chaotic shashan

43:47

steps in with a big shot but there's the

43:49

left hand just cuffed him on the side of

43:51

the head he stays in the pocket for a

43:53

moment a little bit too long perhaps I

43:56

feel like he's got the speed Advantage

43:58

but cap is going to stand his ground and

44:00

throw hard my goodness any of these

44:02

shots could have landed she shown on the

44:05

back foot here great awareness to be

44:07

able to get that level change he's got

44:09

the overhook he pulls his opponent into

44:11

this beautiful HP throw here look at

44:14

this and that was a that afforded him

44:16

the time to clear his head and get his

44:18

senses even though Capa swept to the top

44:21

position it gave shush that a bit of

44:23

time just to get his head back into the

44:25

fight and he's not like he wasn't under

44:27

pressure as he was getting back to his

44:28

feet incredible composure and

44:30

Championship mentality from yazid

44:33

shushan in that first

44:39

round excellent recovery from shash

44:42

wobbled a couple of times ignasio Capa

44:46

finishes the round on top announcing his

44:49

presence here in the first round of a

44:51

pfl Europe regular season

44:54

bout

44:57

Shawn pumping out this jab giving Capa

44:59

something to look at and throws one for

45:01

real nice low kick that's a fast jab and

45:05

a hard low kick start the first round

45:07

offered one upstairs with the left lead

45:10

leg came up right over the shoulder

45:12

barely blocked by Capa capa's not moving

45:14

well on that lead leg from that one

45:16

individual low

45:18

kick you see how he's not progressing

45:20

wob caught him oh and

45:23

again's got crazy power and he's not

45:26

even throwing with excellent technique

45:28

right

45:34

now oh there's the jab again that's

45:37

that's how they trade shashan goes with

45:39

the jab Capo with the hook just like you

45:42

said Dan yazid Shan's got to glue the

45:45

right hand to his chin nice right kick

45:48

from yazid I like this I like these

45:51

kicks being stitched onto the end of his

45:54

combinations

45:58

good jab there from

46:00

M nice

46:03

right switch of the stance there from

46:06

Capa does not like these leg attacks oh

46:09

they're very powerful you showed them

46:11

the last time in Paris as well Big John

46:14

McCarthy how did you score round number

46:20

one little problem with Big John's audio

46:22

we'll get back to him in just a second

46:24

here

46:27

both of these guys having success when

46:29

they throw right down the pipe but it's

46:31

hard to teach an old dog new tricks

46:33

hooks are so fun he does a great job

46:36

putting his body weight behind those

46:38

Jabs that the jab from shash is very

46:41

very quick very

46:51

quick two minutes gone in round number

46:54

two cap is definitely struggling to move

46:57

on that lead leg I think he's covering

46:58

it well he's just he just doesn't seem

47:01

to be able to have the same kind of

47:02

there look now he switch his STS sha is

47:05

really starting to mix up the strikes

47:07

here you saw him hunting for the body

47:10

working the jab we've seen both legs go

47:12

high with the

47:15

kicks right hand wob him again he's

47:19

still

47:22

wobbly knock out niio cap with the

47:25

uppercut

47:28

knockout caught him coming in but he

47:30

heard him right before

47:33

that what beautiful timing on that punch

47:36

had shash backed up against the fence

47:39

anticipated that level change and

47:41

scooped an Upp aut onto

47:47

[Applause]

47:49

it and the hostile

47:52

territory ignasio Capa loves it as he

47:55

waves the Spanish flag in

47:58

Paris shushan is still

48:02

out that was a brutal

48:06

uppercut what

48:18

timing kinomic stats bundle you can see

48:22

yazid shashan threw more landed more the

48:25

power shots though belong to ignasio

48:28

Capa yaan was credited with the take

48:31

down but Capa did finish round number

48:34

one on top doesn't matter don't have to

48:37

go to the scorecards because ignasio

48:41

Capa with a beautifully timed uppercut

48:44

here we go level changes coming he

48:46

anticipates it pops him right on the

48:48

chin beautiful work really really

48:52

clever he was wobbly here Adam

48:56

wow great anticipation by Capa he knew

48:58

he had him hurt and what do people with

49:00

grappling skills do when they're hurt

49:02

they shoot he knew it was coming timed

49:06

that uppercut perfectly one more shot

49:09

for good measure Mark Goddard steps in

49:13

ignasio capea moves on chasing a

49:15

$100,000 European

49:18

Championship incredible job by Capa to

49:21

stay patient after he had him hurt cuz

49:23

what you see a lot is people chase their

49:25

opponent down but he waited for shushan

49:27

to step in he saw he was wobbly on his

49:30

way in he caught him with that uppercut

49:33

incredible that's five Knockouts in his

49:35

last six outings for ignasio

49:40

Capa and I'm finding Dan that if you

49:44

meet

49:45

someone from one of the islands

49:47

belonging to Spain you probably need to

49:49

be cautious around them the Canary

49:51

Islands producing incredible Fighters

49:54

this man is from one of the baleric

49:56

islands in the Mediterranean if you meet

49:59

an Islander speaking Spanish proceed

50:02

with

50:05

caution Andy Shepard makes it official

50:08

ladies and gentlemen referee Mark G call

50:09

a home to the action at 2 minutes and 31

50:12

seconds of round number two declaring

50:15

your winner via knockout in noio

50:23

K great respect between these two

50:26

[Applause]

50:32

guys great show respect great show

50:34

respect between these two guys ignasio

50:37

Capa moves through to the playoffs to

50:39

take on Connor Hughes wow yakob cassu on

50:42

the other side taking on Daniel scati I

50:46

cannot wait for those two fights my

50:48

goodness this lightweight bracket pfl

50:51

Europe 2024 we have our playoffs it's

50:54

going to be a special

50:58

night all right let's throw it up to sha

51:00

o Connell who is in the smart cage with

51:02

ignasio

51:06

Capa ignasio Capa knockout Victory a

51:11

beautiful performance you timed the

51:14

uppercut perfectly like you knew he was

51:17

going to shoot you landed the uppercut

51:21

did you know the takedown attempt was

51:23

coming yes I was watching his

51:25

making little bit the chicken dance and

51:28

I watch my opportunity to connect this

51:30

uppercut and I'm very proud for this in

51:34

one Championship like pfl one of the

51:36

best in the

51:42

[Music]

51:47

world hostile territory you're the away

51:52

fighter you're the visitor fighting a

51:54

Frenchman and the the crowd doesn't

51:56

necessarily love it but you Embrace that

51:59

role do you like being the villain here

52:01

in Paris

52:10

we I love being the devil here but this

52:13

a sport is is a fair play don't take me

52:17

on

52:22

account so now you see the lightweight

52:25

bracket taking shape can you win the

52:28

European championship in 2024 I'm here

52:32

to win this belt the the level is very

52:35

up but I have the level up to win this

52:37

this this belt I'm here for

52:48

that cap ladies and

52:50

[Music]

52:51

[Applause]

52:54

gentlemen

52:59

another beautiful finish that I could

53:00

just watch over and over again so Capa

53:03

is going to push forward he knows

53:05

ignasio is backing up we can see the

53:07

inside of the smart cage line here so of

53:09

course he's being pressured into the

53:11

fence beautiful steady footwork as he's

53:14

drifting himself into range here closing

53:17

this space down between cape and the

53:18

fence now of course capa's watching this

53:22

he's expecting this to fire straight

53:23

into his chin uh Shen is going to level

53:26

change but Capa is ready for this it's

53:29

not this hand that he's watching it's

53:31

the uppercut look at that timing wow he

53:34

showed in the lead hand tempted him to

53:37

level change and walked him onto that

53:39

fantastic uppercut what beautiful timing

53:42

one more quick pop and Mark Godard is in

53:44

there with his slide tackle finish

53:47

beautiful

53:49

performance wow

53:52

what right the

53:57

[Music]

54:02

I tell you I I'm driving the point home

54:05

over and over again but what we're

54:07

seeing from these prospects these are

54:09

people climbing the ranks right now

54:12

maybe not yet ready to take on the best

54:14

in Bellator maybe not yet ready to take

54:16

on the best in the pfl global season but

54:19

I tell you Stephan stru the gap between

54:21

what we're seeing now and what could win

54:23

you a million dooll world Championship

54:26

is not that large of a gap this is some

54:28

incredible skill on display yeah this is

54:30

the perfect stage to grow towards that

54:32

Global stage especially in the aore

54:35

arena sold out aore Arena here the

54:37

biggest event in Europe this year so

54:40

absolutely incredible opportunity for

54:41

these Fighters and they're show

54:44

showcasing their skill set tonight to

54:45

the

54:52

[Music]

54:54

fullest we've been AB just treated

54:57

spoiled tonight on

55:00

finishes ignasio Capa adds that to his

55:21

resume acore Arena sold out tonight in

55:25

anticipation of a main event tilt

55:28

between Baki sham

55:30

sudanov and Cedric

55:33

Dumay undefeated French fighter a rising

55:38

Talent still only 22 years of age

55:42

Limitless potential for that young man

55:46

standing in front of him tonight Cedric

55:49

Dubay multiple time world champion in

55:53

kickboxing but more business to attend

55:56

to in our regular season a welterweight

55:59

tilt coming your way ibraim ammane and

56:02

shakina noo

56:06

Pedro winner

56:10

advances loser Waits until next

56:13

[Music]

56:22

season Ibrahim ammane

56:26

and shaa noo Pedro three 5minute rounds

56:29

at 170 lbs massive implications for the

56:33

careers of these two men as they look to

56:36

climb toward a European Championship

56:42

[Music]

56:53

opportunity

56:56

introducing first in the blue Corner

56:59

shakina noo

57:08

[Music]

57:15

Pedro sha noo

57:19

Pedro roddam Netherlands is home Stephan

57:23

stru you know something about Elite

57:25

Mixed Martial arti is coming out of

57:26

Netherlands yes sir originally from

57:30

Angola but now he lives in the

57:31

Netherlands as you say he also spent

57:33

time in Brazil for his study but he was

57:35

able to train in the velas at some of

57:37

the best PJ gyms you can imagine he can

57:40

strike he can wrestle he can grapple

57:42

he's dangerous on top but also on his

57:45

back with

57:46

submissions finished four out of his

57:48

eight wins two fight winning

57:51

streak and tonight he can really spoil

57:55

the party for the hometown Crowd by

57:57

taking out ibraim

58:00

am and with cha Alo Pedro it's okay you

58:03

can believe your eyes his athleticism is

58:07

on par with what you see obviously

58:10

visually a physical specimen that's how

58:13

he fights and we are all over the tested

58:15

this guy's been tested yesterday and

58:17

today that's a compliment in my mind

58:20

because look at the guy he looks like a

58:21

bodybuilder like a Powerhouse dangerous

58:24

strike still it's almost like seeing

58:26

myself in the

58:31

mirror ah in the Red Corner ibraim

58:41

man you heard the pop from the French

58:43

crowd this man calls Paris France home

58:47

just like we call Paris France home at

58:49

least for the rest of the night ibraim

58:53

ammane a star his own right the freezer

58:56

has come up on a five fight winning

58:59

streak he's been in the Aries promotion

59:02

a staple here he's fought in

59:05

Brave looking to find a permanent home

59:07

in the professional fighters league with

59:10

a European

59:17

Championship he's called the freezer and

59:19

he's got a cold expression on his face

59:21

in this

59:22

walkout heading around to the the other

59:25

side of the smart

59:27

cage multiple time submission and

59:29

knockout of the night winner over at

59:31

Aries FC as you said Sean won his last

59:34

five fights can make a real statement

59:37

right before the co-main and Main Event

59:39

here in Paris in fromont of his hometown

59:43

fence he's going to have a hide and

59:45

reach Advantage he's definitely going to

59:48

have to use that keep CH noed on the

59:51

outside

59:53

but you can can also wrestle very well

59:56

he's got excellent submissions four

59:57

Knockouts three submissions on his

59:59

record he can really do it

60:01

[Applause]

60:17

all we'll take a look at the tail of the

60:19

tape for this welterweight regular

60:21

season Affair Ibrahim ammane 24 years of

60:24

age sha noo Pedro is 30 you can see the

60:29

significant height difference here

60:31

ibraim man is 6 foot sha alsoo Pedro

60:34

listed at 56 reach Advantage favoring

60:37

the taller fighter as one might expect

60:39

Ibrahim

60:44

am so keys to victory for these two

60:47

tanks look at these individuals Ibrahim

60:50

man he's got to be patient early set up

60:52

those high kicks and if he fights him

60:54

lures he's going to be able to open up

60:56

better opportunities for his head kicks

60:58

to land pressure into boxing range for

61:00

jaia clinch to control and attack the

61:03

body if he could slow this fight down

61:05

and make it a slug Fest that's where his

61:07

raw power comes into

61:12

play the voice of our smart cage is Andy

61:15

shepher the following welway fight is a

61:19

pfl Europe regular season contest

61:22

introducing first fighting out of the

61:24

blue corner he is an MMA specialist and

61:27

stands 5' 6 in tall he waited officially

61:30

at

61:41

[Music]

61:53

169.99 opponent fighting out of the Red

61:55

Corner he is a striking specialist and

61:58

stands 6 feet tall he waed officially at

62:02

17.8 lbs and across his 16 fight career

62:06

has earned a record of 12 victories and

62:09

four defeats fighting out of Paris

62:14

France the

62:16

Frieza

62:19

ibraim

62:23

m

62:28

[Applause]

62:30

your referee in charge

62:34

Derek Ibrahim ammane is in the black

62:37

trunks shaita noo Pedro is in the green

62:40

I'm Sean mconnell joined by Stephan stru

62:43

Dan Hardy cagide John McCarthy joining

62:45

us remotely to check in with any rules

62:49

questions welterweight

62:51

[Applause]

62:53

tilt L searching with the kick attempts

62:56

nothing Landing so

62:59

far there's one on the

63:03

leg double change by noo Pedro looking

63:06

for the

63:08

clinch they go chest to chest but ibraim

63:11

Mane does a good job pushing noo Pedro

63:13

back into the smart cage

63:18

barrier I'm interested to see if manΓ©

63:20

decides to disengage here or whether he

63:22

wants to try and wear CH out in the

63:24

clinch a

63:29

[Music]

63:32

little and then we're going to see China

63:34

look for some kind of trip or reap in a

63:36

moment if he feels like he's got a good

63:38

grip with his hands together there it

63:41

is oh to the top position muscles his

63:45

way on top and now Ibrahim Amman is

63:48

going to have to reposition get onto a

63:50

hip and see if he can find his way back

63:52

to his

63:53

feet the bonus here is that as man

63:56

landed he landed with an underhook on

63:58

the same side as his half guard I expect

64:01

him to start trying to use that

64:02

underhook to get onto his side and start

64:04

creating a scramble but look at the

64:07

width and the strength of Loa

64:10

Pedro yeah being a longer fighter this

64:12

is where you do not want to

64:16

be good job man using that underhook his

64:19

bottom leg back to it and up to his feet

64:22

Ibrahim

64:23

ammani puts noo Pedro back on the cage

64:26

one more time the cage

64:37

fing looking for the same thing again I

64:40

kind of feel like the longer this fight

64:41

goes the more it's going to favor

64:43

Ibrahim man I feel like he's got a

64:45

slightly more efficient Style on the

64:46

inside for me Chini looks like he's very

64:49

relaxed but he does use a lot of

64:51

strength in these positions mainly

64:53

because he has it to

64:57

use two under hooks here for

65:01

man can he use him to take noop Pedro

65:03

down good defense by noso Pedro to turn

65:06

it around take center of the

65:09

cage that's progress

65:12

fight referee wants to see more action

65:15

as back and forth they go just reversing

65:18

positions M with a brief explosion there

65:21

second warning more action from the

65:24

referee there we might get a separation

65:26

here halfway through the round guillotin

65:28

there by noso Pedro can he lock his legs

65:31

he

65:32

grabs and he's squeezing hard you can

65:35

see the duress he's got it he's locked

65:38

in ibraim try to

65:42

get and the French fans love

65:46

it that was very close you can see the

65:48

Grimace on Ibrahim man's face

65:53

wow

65:55

great job getting out of

65:59

that and nle Pedro may have burned his

66:01

arms out a little bit with that

66:06

attempt good control position here from

66:08

man lands a couple of good knees and

66:10

another one to the

66:13

[Applause]

66:14

thigh does he break and strike here or

66:17

does he persist with this position now

66:19

he's got the back Exposed Of

66:22

China oh

66:24

standing rear nak choke he's got the

66:26

back Ibrahim man laces his arm around

66:29

the chin

66:31

defense Pedro keeps himself out of

66:34

trouble for now shrugging those

66:35

shoulders up high but he's wearing a

66:38

French backpack good defense there by

66:41

noso

66:42

Pedro incredibly strong of

66:46

course now he's got the take down again

66:50

it looked like Ibrahim Amman was trying

66:51

to go for the sacrifice throw there

66:54

didn't pay off but he's back to his feet

66:56

it's very difficult to to land that

66:58

against a a short and stocky fighter

67:01

like naso Pedro this crowd is Awesome

67:04

every time man has a slight Victory they

67:07

are

67:10

rockers 30 seconds left here I'm

67:13

interested to see what China looks like

67:15

when he gets back to his Corner that

67:17

muscle mass has got a cost to

67:22

it wonder what man is going to do in the

67:25

second

67:28

round chest to chest a grueling fight

67:31

right now in the first

67:35

round several times they've reversed

67:37

position this time noo Pedro Bulls his

67:39

way all the way to a mount he doesn't

67:42

have a lot of time to do something with

67:44

it though and already manΓ© gets one leg

67:49

back also pedo has showed that this is

67:52

where he wants to be had a couple really

67:53

good takedowns I feel like Mane can be

67:57

more effective in the Striking so here's

67:59

that Guillotine let's take a look at how

68:01

tight this was chaa must have felt like

68:03

he had it cuz he jumped guard and as

68:05

ibraim man tried to shake him loose

68:07

China stayed clamped onto it oh he

68:10

almost tapped there that was very close

68:12

and then China's guard pops open to

68:14

readjust a mani makes the most of that

68:16

opportunity to scramble to the back and

68:19

control that position and now I have to

68:22

wonder what China's arms feel like

68:23

because he clamped onto that Guillotine

68:26

with ferocity Here We Go Again look how

68:28

hard he squeezes here he's putting

68:31

everything into that he must have felt

68:32

like this was a four gone

68:35

conclusion toughness toughness and

68:38

defense for Ibrahim man soon as those

68:40

legs pop over the elbow slides in

68:42

between so he can't close his guard

68:44

again clever

68:48

work the celebrities are in the building

68:51

vins

68:52

cel

68:54

incredible french

68:57

actor no no

69:01

no Ibrahim in the Black China noo Pedro

69:05

in the

69:07

green round two begins winter advances

69:11

in the pfl Europe welterweight season oh

69:15

front kick good right hand there by noo

69:18

Pedro though better footwork from manΓ©

69:20

here keeping himself out of those Bear

69:24

Hugs of shaa noo

69:26

Pedro those front kicks are a very good

69:28

deterrent for someone that likes to

69:30

level change hey he goes High lands a

69:33

right hand there this is where nasro

69:36

wants to

69:37

be I I don't think he's going to be able

69:39

to control Ibrahim man as well as he did

69:41

in the first round I feel like the

69:43

longer this fight goes the more man is

69:45

going to be ferocious of shaking away

69:47

with this

69:51

clinch we're a minute into round number

69:53

two two how did Big John McCarthy think

69:55

these judges may have scored round one

69:57

big John tell me you know I would have

70:00

scored that round for no Pedro he's the

70:01

guy that did he had more volume that the

70:04

choke attemp was close it was tight all

70:07

the taked Downs he wins that round but

70:09

the question is how much lactic a is now

70:11

in those arms I think de Hardy's right

70:13

he's getting

70:14

tired good double unders again there's a

70:17

Tak down yet again for naso Pedro going

70:19

to full

70:20

Mount now with more time to work but

70:22

again Ibrahim man not wasting any time

70:26

scrambling getting himself out of

70:28

serious trouble he's got the wrist and a

70:32

leg I love the fact that he's not

70:34

accepting these positions at no point

70:36

does he go okay let me just stay here

70:38

for a moment little roll tries to gramy

70:41

out of this but he's got shikita noo

70:44

Pedro on his back he's going to end up

70:46

on

70:48

top so we're Laing the knees here I want

70:51

you want to watch these knees because

70:53

that P pinch there with Ibrahim man's

70:55

knees he's going to is what's going to

70:57

control the hips of noo Pedro as he

71:00

starts to try and scramble and kick his

71:02

hips out one way and the other we're

71:03

going to see Ibrahim man use those legs

71:06

either side to wedge him into that

71:08

position so he can start opening up with

71:10

ground and

71:20

pound just over half a round to go here

71:23

sha noo Pedro is working his way back to

71:25

the fence but he has to be careful

71:27

giving his back

71:28

again back to his feet sha noo

71:31

Pedro Ibrahim

71:34

man I would be tempted to get some space

71:38

and start throwing some head kicks and

71:39

knees in this position on the break if I

71:41

was ibraim man I feel like there's an

71:44

easy knee for him to land there but he

71:45

gives the under hook and he brings

71:47

himself back to a 50/50 position and noo

71:50

Pedro has showed his really strong

71:52

here

71:54

double unders

71:56

man the resistance to those underhooks

71:59

is starting to fade though for CH NOA

72:01

Pedro this is a a tenacious pace for

72:04

these two big big welterweights he could

72:06

get the take down again he's got the

72:07

body luck but good defense he stepped

72:11

and tried to reap that knee from the

72:13

outside inside trip might have been more

72:15

efficient there for

72:18

noed the referee wants to see more

72:20

action here level Changed by naso Pedro

72:23

almost takes the back but good job by

72:25

man to recognize

72:31

that there's the break from the referee

72:34

referee does not like these stal mates

72:36

on the

72:37

cage 90 seconds left in round

72:42

two it's the night of the uppercuts here

72:45

Ibrahim man's looking for it as

72:47

well he's got to fight his way off this

72:50

fence he's got just over a minute to go

72:52

single leg by nle oedro can he finish it

72:55

switches to the Head

72:57

outside well done Ibrahim

73:01

man good take down off fence this round

73:03

for Ibrahim man head position in in this

73:06

in this clinch position here will he

73:09

strike will he break and strike or is he

73:11

going to work for his own taked down

73:12

here great work gentlemen more

73:18

action fighting for

73:21

underhooks is not using the o though to

73:24

take noo Pedro down nice sharp

73:26

uppercut on the dirty box

73:29

but noo Pedro uses the position to

73:32

smother any other attacks final 30

73:34

seconds of this

73:39

round oh beautiful take down there by

73:43

man H the

73:45

knee and now forcing noso Pedro to

73:48

scramble away and

73:51

Retreat if I was in him man's corner

73:54

right now I would be screaming for him

73:55

to clear and get out the

73:57

[Applause]

73:58

clinch this this third round is going to

74:01

decide this and I think the conditioning

74:03

of these two fighters might be the

74:05

deciding factor back to the stool as

74:07

they go we will see round

74:10

three Mane not looking happy there not

74:13

happy with his performance so far well

74:16

and honestly looking more fatigued at

74:18

least going back to the stool than noso

74:20

Pedro yeah he's breeding through his

74:21

nose still noso Pedro is

74:25

m usako in the

74:28

[Applause]

74:34

building the VIP is filling it up in

74:38

anticipation of the lazy King's

74:41

return Cedric D's main

74:44

[Music]

74:52

event

75:04

there's

75:05

[Applause]

75:08

CE icons of French sport filling the

75:12

building inside the smart cage sha noo

75:15

Pedro and Ibrahim manΓ© for one more

75:21

round the pressure might be on him man

75:23

to try and get a stoppage in this third

75:25

round he's got to be cautious getting

75:27

drawn into the clinch again because you

75:29

know not to Pedro he's going to try and

75:31

slow this fight down again oh jab from

75:34

noo Pedro good footwork on the outside

75:38

to avoid the bull rush there from ibraim

75:40

ammane there's that front kick again

75:42

drives one to the leg as

75:44

well oh beautiful jab am Mane

75:47

there and great work to stay away from

75:51

that cage this is what I like to see see

75:53

hopefully he can convince himself to

75:56

stay in this striking range oh there was

75:57

the uppercut barely missed Pedro landed

76:00

one on the

76:05

return noo Pedro just Bulls through it

76:08

though but with the HP switch lands on

76:12

top great take down defense I mean that

76:15

most people have been taken down with a

76:17

bite on a take down that deep Ibrahim

76:20

man on the floor 4 minutes to go there's

76:22

a rattle around the stadium of feet on

76:25

the

76:26

ground as he lands on the foot corner

76:30

sponsor Pedro using the fence with his

76:36

legs back and he lock again lacing his

76:40

arms around the

76:42

chin thinks better of it puts his feet

76:45

on the mat one more

76:49

time nooo trying to open up the hands of

76:52

manΓ©

76:54

trying to create space so he can turn

76:56

into

77:02

him manΓ© trying to put his weight on noo

77:08

[Applause]

77:11

[Music]

77:16

Pedro we seeing this underhook poking

77:18

through here man needs to dig that

77:20

deeper like he just did now he's got a

77:22

frame across the face which we can't see

77:24

right now digs another under hook this

77:26

is good work by man but he needs to move

77:28

his feet as well now he's moved his feet

77:30

this is what we need to see we need to

77:31

see him circling off the fence and

77:33

clearing this face if he can get back to

77:36

a striking range he can start to let go

77:38

of some of his dangerous lethal weapons

77:41

right hand on the exit good front kick

77:44

there

77:45

by halfway through round three 2 and A2

77:48

minutes left to decide this

77:52

fight

77:54

nice reversal of the position here by

77:56

manΓ© who used that underhook out of the

77:58

cage manΓ© struggles to confin himself to

78:02

go back to Striking Distance I think

78:03

he's incredibly tired but this is really

78:07

favoring naso Pedro in my opinion well

78:10

he was right in front of his own corner

78:11

and I think they talked him into backing

78:13

out good movement there by noso Pedro

78:16

forcing Manet to miss double under Hooks

78:18

and a March to the cage one more time

78:21

both of these guys are exhausted

78:25

Ibrahim man digging

78:27

underhook two under hooks now for

78:29

Ibrahim man can he move his feet again

78:31

and get off the

78:34

fence let's work gentlemen more work

78:37

coming up to 90 seconds left in the last

78:39

round really comes down to who wants the

78:41

most right now who can convince himself

78:44

all right stop stop stop to look for the

78:48

Finish also Pedra didn't like the

78:50

separation there he's got 90 seconds to

78:53

claim this fight inside leg

79:00

kick both of these guys so incredibly

79:03

tired labored in their movement little

79:05

duck under from noo Pedro finds him back

79:07

in the clinch nice timing over

79:10

there French fans do not like the

79:12

strategy from shaita noo Pedro trying to

79:15

muscle his way to a victory here I think

79:18

they feel and they see the same thing as

79:19

us I think naso Pedro is winning the

79:22

fight over here and these

79:24

situations let work gentlemen more work

79:26

I think he's I think he's very very

79:28

tired though so at any point where NOA

79:30

Pedro can clinch he's going to slow this

79:32

fight down as much as possible he's now

79:34

not being nearly as offensive with his

79:36

takedowns as he was

79:39

previously 30 seconds to go who can

79:41

convince the

79:43

judges leg

79:45

kick the entrance but noo Pedro oh

79:49

beautiful beautiful throw use the B

79:53

finish the fight here M hammering

79:57

away but noo Pedro again pulls right

80:01

through Madness in the end of the

80:03

fight 10 seconds to go there's The

80:09

Clapper ibraim Amman reverses position

80:12

and

80:13

finishes what an fight in control

80:19

wow what a fight what a fight and yet

80:23

again I'm going to say it I'm happy I'm

80:25

not a judge well both of these Fighters

80:27

think they did

80:30

enough the official judges will have the

80:32

final say here we'll check in with Big

80:35

John McCarthy when we get a

80:37

[Music]

80:39

moment what a

80:44

pace fomic stats bundle you can see

80:46

China noo Pedro threw more landed

80:49

more I think an argument could be made

80:53

that the significant strikes belong to

80:55

ibraim ammane a lot of that work was in

80:57

the clinch the dirty boxing the body

80:59

shots for shaa noo Pedro but it's so

81:02

hard to know how judges are going to

81:04

score when they're also counting these

81:12

steps let's take a look at a few of

81:14

these highlights nice timing on this as

81:17

NOA Pedro level changes he is a big knee

81:19

but he just managed to smother it enough

81:21

to take away the majority of the

81:24

power think he caught it with the chest

81:27

and here we go with a flurry between

81:28

these two guys and you can see how heavy

81:31

they were in this last round but still

81:33

the timing on that knee was a thing of

81:34

beauty here's the throw beautiful timing

81:37

on

81:38

that I mean I scored the last round for

81:41

man I don't know about the first two as

81:43

you said effective striking I could

81:46

maybe get lean the second round to man

81:48

as well but I think we might see China

81:50

take this one two rounds to one I I

81:53

don't know how cha noo Pedro pushed

81:56

through that last incredibly well timed

81:59

knee he ate it right on the neck meat

82:01

and it didn't seem to affect him at

82:07

all a Big John

82:10

McCarthy if I'm putting your feet to the

82:12

fire how do you score this fight well I

82:15

got to go with neck meat where did you

82:17

come up with neck meat I that's a the

82:20

real look at this was a great fight both

82:22

guys put out so much energy and I was

82:24

very impressed they were able to

82:25

continue that third round definitely

82:27

goes to ibraim am

82:30

man but uh if you're going to take a

82:32

look at the whole thing I'm going to say

82:33

that ibraim a man's going to end up

82:35

sneaking this out but it can go either

82:37

way it's going to be a 2928 both guys

82:40

really put a lot out in that fight uh

82:42

unenviable position for the judges to be

82:45

in Andy Shephard has appeared with the

82:48

judges scorecards we send it to him for

82:50

the

82:51

verdict ladies and gentlemen after three

82:54

rounds of action we go to the judge's

82:57

scorecards Judge David leby scored about

83:00

2928 for man judge Karim shivi scored

83:03

about 2928 for noso

83:06

Pedro and judge Mohammad Kahala scores

83:09

about 2928 for your winner via Split

83:15

Decision

83:16

ibrahima

83:21

m

83:24

a very very close fight that one my

83:27

goodness I I would like to see these

83:29

guys two more rounds to be honest and I

83:31

think we're going to see China NOA Pedro

83:33

back in the pfl very

83:37

soon all right let's take a look at

83:39

these brackets so that decides the first

83:41

of our playoffs in the welterweight

83:43

bracket Ibrahim Aman taking on Danielle

83:45

Meli we have Floren zendeli on the other

83:48

side of the bracket his opponent will be

83:50

determined in June on the next regular

83:53

season event what a wel towe bracket

83:56

this

83:58

is all right Sha oconnell is in the

84:01

smart cage with the winner Ibrahim man

84:04

over to you

84:06

sha Ibrahim just wants to put the

84:09

t-shirt on Paris ibraim ammane

84:17

Victorious Split Decision Victory were

84:20

you confident that when the judge

84:22

scorecards were R you would get the

84:30

win uh first time

84:35

[Applause]

84:47

[Applause]

84:49

Sal he say sorry because it's pretty

84:52

disapp apped about his performance and

84:53

his like apologize for all the

84:57

audience I don't know how you could

84:59

apologize for a performance like that

85:01

especially when you knew the fight was

85:03

on the line you threw the big head kick

85:07

the hip toss a beautifully timed knee I

85:10

think that might have been the

85:11

difference in this fight you dug deep

85:13

and you're moving on in the

85:21

season

85:39

we're going to see a a lot more next but

85:42

all the one that knows him and follows

85:44

him they know he has more abilities than

85:46

this so as a fighter representing France

85:50

and living in training in Paris what

85:53

does it mean to be fighting in front of

85:54

a soldout acor Arena

86:01

[Music]

86:11

[Applause]

86:21

tonight

86:22

[Applause]

86:24

we have the best crowd in the world

86:27

we're better than England we're better

86:29

than anybody and yeah it was a pleasure

86:31

here to to fight here today here in

86:33

Paris thank you congratulations

86:37

[Applause]

86:44

ibraim so that is the welterweight

86:46

bracket let's take a look at the

86:48

lightweight bracket which is now

86:49

complete for the playoffs ignasio Capo

86:51

with a emphatic performance he steps in

86:54

for Conor Hughes that's a a hell of a

86:57

fight between two very very crisp

86:59

dangerous Strikers yakob kassuba 2023

87:02

Champion thean a pfl lightweight

87:05

champion he moves in to fight Danielle

87:08

scti who had a fantastic heel hook

87:10

finish what a bracket that's going to

87:17

be here we are here's the schedule we're

87:20

wrapping up Paris that's the regular

87:21

season for Paris done we're going to

87:23

move into the main and co-main event now

87:25

the next regular season event June 8th

87:28

Newcastle England Phantom weights

87:30

women's flyweights and one more

87:32

welterweight battle and then the

87:34

playoffs September 28th in Glasgow lots

87:37

to look forward

87:42

to that brings us to our co-main event

87:46

Jack grant the final touches being put

87:48

on a warm-up he will look to spoil the

87:51

party of the lazy King who makes his

87:53

return to the smart cage after a

87:57

sensational performance first time

88:00

out and there he is Abdul Abdul

88:06

haimov a fan favorite here in

88:11

Paris grappling Phenom looking to make

88:15

another statement

88:21

tonight

88:23

the people love the lazy King everyone

88:26

on their feet this man is a cult hero oh

88:31

and we play short joke that's

88:35

tight this is exactly where Jack Grant

88:37

wants to be oh takes a big

88:40

shot that's

88:51

it

89:00

there's DJ Snake new release out big

89:20

bang

89:27

look at Dan Hardy facing these co-main

89:30

event Fighters off in front of the

89:31

Eiffel Tower there's the lazy King Jack

89:34

Grant with a smile on his

89:37

face very confident coming into tonight

89:41

Jack Grant Big Time

89:43

[Music]

89:44

finisher a welterweight showcase three

89:47

five minute rounds between Abdul

89:48

abduragimov

89:50

Jack Grant representing England

90:07

tonight ladies and gentlemen making

90:10

their way to the pfl Europe smart cage

90:12

fighting out of the blue Corner Jack

90:20

Grant

90:23

[Music]

90:26

Jack Grant very content to play the bad

90:28

guy

90:32

tonight the French fans are letting him

90:34

have it as he makes this walk out title

90:37

Contender and cage Warriors and as we

90:40

have talked about plenty of times 18 of

90:42

his 19 victories have come be a stoppage

90:44

10 of those are submission victories so

90:48

even though the lazy King is the

90:50

grappling Phenom with 12 submission

90:52

victories here there's not a large

90:54

disparity between his success in

90:56

grappling and Jack

91:00

Grant's of of course let's not forget

91:03

Jack Grant has never been

91:05

submitted very interesting going up

91:07

against Abdu ABD

91:10

ragim Grant is a absolute unit at

91:14

welterweight looks to be in tremendous

91:17

shape he needs to use that reach and

91:21

height advantage

91:23

just keep ABD ragim up off of

91:26

him cuz although he's very good on the

91:29

ground that's where you don't want to be

91:31

with Abdul Abdul

91:35

Rima you can see the enormous frame on

91:38

Jack

91:45

[Music]

91:48

Graham and his opponent in the Red

91:50

Corner abdor abdor

91:55

[Applause]

92:00

rimar and Out Come the phones and the

92:03

lights and the cheers for lazy

92:08

[Applause]

92:11

King Big Time stoppage Master himself 12

92:18

submissions and we talked a lot about

92:20

the variety of those

92:23

submissions If you defend the rear naked

92:27

he's going to go for the armar If you

92:29

defend the armar he's going to

92:31

transition to the triangle

92:33

choke if he can't get one of those he'll

92:35

try to heel hook you or knee bar you

92:37

this man has all of the tools in the

92:40

tool box every weapon in the Arsenal for

92:42

a Grappler belongs to Abdul Abdul and he

92:46

has not made any claims tonight about

92:49

which submission he will be chasing say

92:51

he doesn't want to focus on one

92:53

particular attack told me many times

92:56

when I was speaking to him this week I

92:58

got to be creative as a fighter I want

93:00

to be

93:02

creative I think the creativity tonight

93:04

against someone who's never been

93:05

submitted might be to rely a little bit

93:08

more on striking to set things up we'll

93:10

see how it plays out in this co-main

93:19

event here's your tail the tape lazy

93:22

King 28 years old Jack Grant is 31 6' 1

93:26

in tall is Jack Grant makes him 3 in

93:28

taller than the lazy King 5 in regev Van

93:31

on the arms favoring the Englishmen both

93:33

men with 40in

93:35

[Music]

93:44

legs he's the victory for ABD ragim up

93:47

he needs to close the distance early and

93:49

go for single La takedowns on his way to

93:52

taking the back for Jack Grant long

93:55

range striking cuz you do not want to go

93:57

to the ground with Abdul ragimov use

94:00

conditioning as a weapon cuz he's in

94:02

phenomenal shape use his grappling to

94:05

escape and don't get caught of course in

94:07

submissions incredible matchup this

94:10

[Music]

94:16

is ladies and gentlemen we have arrived

94:19

at our Co name main event of the evening

94:24

introducing first fighting out of the

94:26

blue corner he is a grappling specialist

94:28

and Dan 6'1 in

94:31

tall he weighing officially at

94:35

169.000 lb and in his 26 fight career

94:39

has ear a record of 19 wins and seven

94:43

losses 18 wins coming by way of stoppage

94:48

fighting out of Grimsby

94:52

England Jack

94:56

Gro let's

95:02

go and his opponent fighting out of the

95:05

Red Corner here is a BJJ AR wrestling

95:09

specialist he's stand 5' 10 in tall and

95:13

weighed efficiently at

95:20

169.74 14 wins coming by way of stoppage

95:25

fighting out of non

95:28

France the lazy King

95:33

Abdul

95:34

[Applause]

95:40

[Music]

95:42

Abdul the referee judge loric

95:50

PR

95:53

Jack Granton in the green trunks lazy

95:54

King in the black three five minute

95:58

rounds in the welterweight co-main

96:02

event early kicks to the lead leg from

96:04

lazy

96:06

King Jack Grant is a big welterweight

96:09

compared to abdor

96:13

raimov good L kicks take away some of

96:16

that movement before you set up the

96:18

level change power from Jack Grand there

96:23

[Applause]

96:25

Grant definitely has The Knockout

96:26

advantage on his resume eight Knockouts

96:29

nice C kick

96:31

there by the lazy King there's another

96:35

got a little out of position Jack Grant

96:37

oh he's got to get he's got a hold of

96:39

him but there's the neck what can he do

96:41

with it lazy King squeezing hard on this

96:43

choke attempt he doesn't have his legs

96:45

luck but can use it to set something

96:48

different up not controlling the hips

96:49

but that is a tight squeeze he's all the

96:51

way in on his deep deep on his own elbow

96:54

here this is where Jack Grant's

96:56

grappling wisdom comes into play he

96:58

knows how to how to tweak the position

97:01

by millimeters to give himself breath

97:03

and stay safe but abdol must feel

97:05

confident that he's got something

97:08

[Applause]

97:10

here got his head

97:13

out now Abdul L him up now trying to

97:16

crawl that left leg up control the

97:20

posture of Jack Graham good pressure by

97:22

Grant here it's really difficult for ab

97:24

ragimov here at the

97:26

fence to lock something up but he's so

97:30

we got Mission Control here this

97:31

position this leg across the top here is

97:34

keeping oh now we've gone to the lock

97:37

down okay okay Jack Grant's managed to

97:40

slide his shoulders back through lazy

97:42

King is going to try and isolate this

97:44

arm that's on the canvas here he's going

97:45

to bring his legs up he's going to creep

97:47

his legs up and try and isolate the

97:50

upper body of Jack

97:53

grant grant is trying to create some

97:57

distance perhaps land some

98:01

elbows lazy King content to work from

98:04

the bottom here he's not opening his

98:05

guard to try and work a standup

98:07

[Music]

98:09

position Abdul Abdul ragimov on the

98:13

bottom Jack Grant on

98:16

top oh lady King kicking his hips out

98:19

you can see that for a second lazy King

98:21

slid his hips out to one side now Jack

98:23

Grant's trying to slide his knee through

98:25

the guard you can see the guard is open

98:28

but now the butterfly hooks are into

98:30

position good pass here by Jack Grant

98:32

gets that left leg through he's got

98:35

really good top pressure so far it's

98:37

really difficult for abduragimov to do

98:39

anything a great flexibility from uh

98:42

from abduraimov as well we know this

98:44

from his athletic ability his back flips

98:46

and stuff but look how he's folded his

98:49

his hooks into his into to his butt

98:51

cheeks here that allows him to really

98:53

create a lot of power from this position

98:55

some blood from the nose of Abdul abdar

99:00

Rakim it's just been a position battle

99:02

from the top so far Grant trying to pass

99:06

seeing if he can move his knees through

99:08

and there's a hammer fist with some shot

99:10

there by Grant big left hands here lazy

99:13

King having to try and wrestle out of

99:16

that he's got to hold of the wrist of

99:18

Grant lazy King wants to Grapple

99:22

he holding the gloves though referee's

99:25

taking a good luck look there he's

99:28

bleeding from the nose badly good right

99:31

hand from lazy King and then the low

99:33

kick to the cap combination from Grant

99:37

lazy King almost caught him off balance

99:39

here's a take down he's got to hold of

99:40

him now he's got him on his

99:42

back Abdul ABD

99:45

ragim choke he's choke lacing in does he

99:48

have enough space though at the fence

99:50

he's got the hands together see if he

99:52

can push that arm all the way

99:54

through gu so strong in this

99:57

position one minute to go no no no it's

99:59

what Jack Grand is saying here the wag

100:01

of the finger says he's just fine he's

100:04

got a Japanese neck tie here but that is

100:06

a nasty finish is in

100:10

trouble if can push his hips forward

100:15

break that neck you see Jack Grant is in

100:17

a serious position here look at the leg

100:21

look at the hyper extension on the knee

100:22

as

100:24

well the clamp of abdraimov is something

100:27

else it's really difficult to finish the

100:30

DARS from this position in half guard

100:32

but you can go for that Japanese neck

100:34

tie but really good defense by Jack

100:36

Grant he could really do with walking

100:38

Jack Grant's hips back to the fence in

100:41

this position he doesn't have a lot of

100:42

space to start sing this up with him up

100:46

against the fence it's going to restrict

100:47

his movement final 10 seconds of a very

100:50

interesting in round number one lazy

100:53

King will hammer away on the ears of

100:56

Jack Grant and try once again to

100:59

readjust that

101:01

grip now if you're a judge you've got to

101:04

figure out whose top control was more

101:07

significant because each Man spent a

101:09

decent amount of time there I I would

101:11

nullify all the top control that

101:14

Guillotine choke that neck attack there

101:16

was close enough you could hear Jack

101:18

Grant gasping and gurgling that for me

101:20

is enough close enough as a finish to

101:22

win the

101:24

round that's how I would score it but

101:27

that is not my job

101:29

tonight as we take a look at these

101:31

replays nice work from Jack Grant look

101:34

getting creative knees to the chest from

101:36

that top position good Hammer fist good

101:38

Hammer fist some strikes on top he did

101:40

draw blood here in this first round but

101:43

look at

101:44

this what a crazy position to get caught

101:47

in I talk about the flexibility of abdor

101:49

raimov but look at that that leg of Jack

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101:54

gr this is where that veteran Savvy

101:56

comes into play Superstars Tony Parker

102:00

NBA Hall of Famer one of the greatest

102:02

International Stars multiple time NBA

102:05

champion with the San Antonio

102:10

Spurs

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F Abdul abduragimov is in the black with

102:16

the calf kick Jack Grant is in the green

102:21

offering another calf kick to his

102:24

opponent Mind Games by Jack Grant don't

102:27

want to give up too many of them we can

102:29

see the bruising on that lead leg though

102:31

already of jackr from that c

102:34

kick la king might need to be careful

102:37

about getting walked back into the smart

102:38

cage barrier by a welterweight as large

102:41

as Jack Grant nice hook another from

102:43

Abdul good left hook there level change

102:46

beautiful he's got a

102:48

leg nice defense here from Jack

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gr expect the lazy King to sit out in a

102:58

moment especially if he can get that leg

103:02

free look at the flexibility the

103:04

dexterity of the hips of lazy King this

103:06

is why he's so dangerous in tight

103:08

positions he folds up into a suitcase

103:11

and explodes out with tremendous

103:15

power and he gets a nasty hook in a

103:18

right hand behind it strong work there

103:21

on the exit from Abdul overhand right

103:24

just misses C kick lands lot of power in

103:27

those man I think that one hurt lazy

103:29

King to be

103:30

honest oh good

103:33

jab one offered back by Jack

103:39

Grant little check there they'll

103:42

continue the

103:43

fight good again level change head

103:46

outside good defense by Gro Grant trying

103:49

to grab an isolate this heel hook after

103:53

all is rolling and rolls all the way out

103:56

to front head block

104:00

position he had to go around the bend a

104:03

couple of times to get all the way

104:05

out got a hat and the arm what can he do

104:09

with

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it he's going for Armen

104:13

guillotin can he finish it he's got it

104:16

oh this look at the leg across the back

104:19

that's what's holding Grant into this

104:21

position he's only got one leg K control

104:24

the hips on the way trying to move into

104:26

the mount Jack Grant the gates it we can

104:30

see this wrap around the neck here this

104:32

is what Jack Grant has to deal with his

104:34

head is popped out now he's got this

104:36

grip around the back of lazy King here

104:38

to hold him into this position but lazy

104:40

King is an expert at passing the guard

104:42

from this position incredible grappling

104:45

attacks and defense on display here in

104:48

Paris halfway through round number

104:50

number

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two this is why Jack Grant has never

104:53

been submitted in his prma career

104:56

excellent defense so

105:00

far nice knee by

105:07

Grant and here in these clinch exchanges

105:09

you can really see the size difference

105:11

of these

105:12

welterweights halfway through this fight

105:15

does the pure mass of Jack Grant become

105:18

a factor as Abdul tries to carry it fin

105:22

minutes offered that one all the way up

105:24

over his

105:27

shoulder very tight on the strikes here

105:30

14-1 in favor of abdraimov one of two

105:33

takedowns as well and I don't think it's

105:35

going to be the last taked down we see

105:37

good position exit there from Abdul ABD

105:41

nice right

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hand 90 seconds left in round

105:49

two

105:53

nice front kicks to the uh to the

105:55

shinbone there we don't see that very

105:57

often but if you can find an opportunity

106:00

oh la king tries to roll through after

106:03

Grant tried to take his

106:05

back good Hammer fist again from Jack

106:09

Grant strong top work here from Grant

106:12

lazy King trying to look up a

106:19

leg doing

106:22

B Palm strikes from gr he has some good

106:25

ones in the first round as well after

106:28

talk into Jack

106:30

Grant he's on his side here I think he's

106:32

needs need to need to dig that right arm

106:34

under hook to create a scramble come on

106:37

boy come on

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boy nice job by Ja gr

106:44

here and Abdul has been in this position

106:47

before he's been on the bottom against a

106:49

bigger opponent and he still managed to

106:51

get the finish in the last

106:54

round Jack Grant needs to be very

106:56

cautious even when the lazy King seems

106:58

like he might be being a little bit lazy

107:00

nice knee to the body there from ja

107:04

Grant trying to get a hold of the wrist

107:06

but not a good knee by

107:08

Grant solid knee to the body there from

107:10

Jack Grant who was using those in the

107:12

first round as well round two in the

107:15

books we will see the third and final

107:18

frame Jack Grant

107:22

more VIPs in the building here in

107:27

Paris so this is the position here where

107:30

lazy King had level changed and shot in

107:32

and Jack Grant was able to get a wrap on

107:34

his head to defend this but then lazy

107:36

King bails out lands a couple of good

107:38

strikes on the break there you can't

107:41

underestimate the lazy King striking

107:43

especially when he's Tak Downs are such

107:44

a threat look at that level change in on

107:46

a single leg great defense from Jack

107:49

Grant switches it to an ankle lock lazy

107:51

King pirouettes out of it great defense

107:54

here recovers his knee line and then he

107:57

finds himself in this position where

107:59

Jack Grant had a hand on the floor so he

108:00

couldn't knee so he attacks the neck

108:03

another very good neck attack that Jack

108:05

Grant had to

108:08

escape another hard fight to score guys

108:11

that was very close that Guillotine was

108:13

really tight it was a really tight guar

108:14

and then you know the the second half of

108:16

that round was really all Jack Grant

108:19

yeah putting on the defensive gr's doing

108:22

an excellent job he's not afraid to go

108:24

to the

108:25

ground last round in our co-main event

108:28

in Paris Jack Grant is in the green lazy

108:30

King Abdul abduragimov is in the

108:36

black we keep talking about how tough it

108:39

is to score the roll attempt try to

108:42

Rolling kick Big John McCarthy what do

108:44

your scorecards look like you know right

108:47

now I have the lazy King up you you take

108:49

a look at the submission attemps and

108:51

that last one with the guillotine just

108:52

like stepan was talking about it was

108:54

tight and that's putting Jack Grant in

108:57

danger he's not doing enough with his

108:59

striking to make it back up so right now

109:01

I have the lazy King up 20 right now

109:04

Jack Grant on the back of the lazy

109:07

King very interesting probably ill

109:10

advised on

109:11

that wild kick rolling attempt can he

109:15

get the UT leg

109:17

in good work by the lazy King to get

109:19

back to his feet here Jack Grant is

109:22

putting all kinds of force into the

109:23

lower back of the lazy King but he

109:26

doesn't have both of his hooks in play

109:28

Lazy King's trying to push Jack Grant's

109:30

head away and he could break this grip

109:32

on the back of the legs he might be able

109:34

to shake himself

109:35

free grant needs to be careful that he

109:38

doesn't slide off here being slippery in

109:40

the third round ABD ragim m is looking

109:42

for just that I

109:49

think

109:51

excellent control here by Jack Grant big

109:54

compliment for Jack Grant the way he's

109:55

fighting he's really controlling the

110:00

fight good work by lazy King here

110:02

pitching Jack Grant forward again

110:04

forcing Jack Grant to use a lot of leg

110:06

strength to hold himself in this

110:08

position Kenan up on top he's

110:12

twisting there he goes good scramble

110:16

gets himself out of that to back and now

110:18

lazy King with minutes to go can he do

110:21

it again he on the back of Jack Grant

110:24

beautiful scramble by Jack Grant and you

110:27

see the scramble and then the movement

110:29

immediately to advance position by Jack

110:31

Grant trying to stay a step ahead of the

110:34

lazy King who can't really lean on his

110:37

lazy style right now here we go again

110:40

falls into him again fantastic

110:42

interesting he's purged on that

110:44

butterfly hook and now he's cleared it

110:46

now can he really clear the full 2 and

110:48

half minutes AG go well he's got that

110:50

left underhook which could keep him in

110:52

this side control position you can see

110:54

Jack Grant is building a wall here now

110:56

he scoots himself out turn to his great

110:58

job but lazy King is on the neck again

111:01

you can see him threatening that and AA

111:03

choke yes he's in the up the bicep

111:05

though yes there he goes he's got it he

111:06

had a condo with it and he's got the leg

111:10

leg again look at the control on the leg

111:12

here Jack Grant just Wags the finger

111:15

every time one of these submission

111:16

attempts looks so tight look at this

111:20

here on the bicep for the lazy King that

111:22

is so difficult for Jack Grant to

111:24

release because it's buried in his

111:26

armpit Jack Grant is pushing his arm out

111:28

his elbow out that's what's saving him

111:30

right now that's taking the pressure off

111:32

of his neck his right arm look at this

111:35

tangle see the leg here Tangled Up by

111:38

lazy King you can see this figure four

111:40

grip that he's got on the head and arm

111:42

as well it's not tight

111:43

enough Jack Grant saying no but this is

111:46

a deep submission attempt and it looks

111:48

good on the Jud score card and lazy King

111:51

still has the

111:55

grip that looks incredibly tight I I am

111:58

amazed that Jack Grant has not not

112:01

passed out yet I don't know where Jack

112:02

Grant is finding the space to breathe

112:05

and keep the blood flowing but he is I

112:07

don't think abim's arm is deep enough

112:10

cuz he's just barely got the bicep with

112:12

his

112:13

fingers he can't squeeze enough his his

112:16

bicep is hand is sliding off trying to

112:20

stay on top lazy king for now does he

112:23

had to let go of the real choke attempt

112:26

there excellent defensive work all three

112:29

rounds less than a minute to go can Jack

112:32

Graham stay unsubmit is the

112:36

question it's been incredible so far

112:39

this the grapping exchange and he really

112:41

really tested lazy King which is what we

112:43

were hoping for Jack Grant is a tough

112:46

tough veteran he's got to get his neck

112:48

clear of this though the judges are

112:50

going to be counting this against him

112:51

for

112:54

[Applause]

112:55

[Music]

112:57

[Applause]

112:59

sure and you can just feel that lazy

113:01

King's waiting for Jack Grant to try and

113:03

scramble so he can just tighten this up

113:05

a little bit just tighten it a little

113:08

bit he's going to survive

113:11

though final 10

113:14

seconds Jack Grant pulls his head all

113:16

the way out lazy King with big hit those

113:20

were nasty and now maybe one more

113:22

squeeze on the neck no he'll punch his

113:24

way to the barrel lazy

113:28

King does he Ascend the Clone

113:35

again CRS on their

113:39

feet what a fight what a

113:44

fight I told you boys I needed someone

113:47

to ask questions about the lazy Kings

113:48

ground game and I know how good Jack

113:51

Grant's ground game is for me that was a

113:54

confirmation that the lazy King has got

113:56

some slick grappling skills but the

113:59

toughness the submission skills and

114:01

awareness of Jack Grant is something to

114:03

behold make sure if you're close to Jack

114:05

grants Academy make sure you go check it

114:07

out you can learn a lot from that guy

114:09

Sean look at these stats truly

114:12

incredible as we look at the kinomic

114:15

stats Jack Grant he threw more he landed

114:18

more the take Downs in favor of lazy

114:22

King and some very significant strikes

114:25

to close this fight at the end of round

114:27

three those final 10 seconds they fought

114:30

all the way to the

114:32

Bell big performance from Jack Grant

114:35

there really dug deep he looks a little

114:37

dejected but he has nothing to be

114:39

ashamed of I think as a mixed martial

114:42

artist he knows in these positions they

114:44

were getting countered against him

114:45

because he was in deep submission

114:48

attempts

114:50

and the toughness and the submission

114:52

ability of the lazy King to be able to

114:54

recover from really bad positions

114:56

scramble back on top constantly threaten

114:58

the neck and I love the respect between

115:01

these two guys you're watching replays

115:02

right now but they are embracing in the

115:04

smart cage and look at this great finish

115:07

from the lazy King a

115:09

flurry a last statement right at the end

115:12

of the

115:13

round big smile on Jack Grant's

115:16

face there is not one ounce of not one

115:20

outs equit in Jack

115:22

Grant a lesser man would have found a

115:25

way out of this fight in any of those

115:27

super tight submission attempts Jack

115:32

Grant simply Wags the finger and keeps

115:43

fighting as we await the judges

115:46

scorecards the fans here in Paris show

115:49

their appreciation deservedly

116:03

so see Andy

116:05

Shephard Andy Shepard has entered the

116:07

smart cage which means we have an

116:09

official decision Andy Shepard Take it

116:12

Away Ladies and Gentlemen after three

116:15

rounds of action we go to the judge's

116:17

scorecards judge V Palo scores about

116:22

3027 for Abdul

116:25

ragimov judge Muhammad Kamala scores

116:28

about 2928 for Grant and Judge David

116:32

leby scores about 2928 for your winner

116:34

Vice Split

116:36

Decision Abdul Abdul

116:40

[Applause]

116:45

rimos a hard fought and hard earned

116:48

victory for for the lazy king and you

116:51

can see the respect and appreciation

116:53

between these two guys a fantastic

116:55

performance from both of them just not

116:58

quite enough for Jack grant to get two

117:00

judges to see it his way the lazy King

117:02

is with sha o Connell let's get it over

117:05

let's get it over to sha o conell see

117:07

what the lazy King's got to

117:13

say the lazy King ladies and gentlemen

117:17

Victorious by decision this time so many

117:21

tight submission attempts but he refused

117:23

to tap did you think the DAR or the

117:26

guillotine or any of those was going to

117:29

get you the submission Victory like

117:31

always first of all thank everybody for

117:33

the support

117:34

Mercy

117:37

F and yes I tried to finish like always

117:41

I said I'm here for the finish this time

117:43

I didn't get it but no matter what I

117:45

continue I tried until the end but he's

117:48

a real black Bel now we have the

117:51

confirmation so it was very close but I

117:55

didn't get it but I'm happy I get the

118:08

[Applause]

118:18

win

118:24

Abdul this is the largest MMA event in

118:29

the history of this country and you are

118:31

the co-main event what does it mean to

118:33

take home a win in this arena in this

118:36

environment for me any win is a is very

118:39

important because it's it's part of the

118:42

big Journey so I'm of course happy to be

118:45

part of this historical event and we we

118:49

hope to continue the journey let's see

118:51

what will be

119:09

tomorrow

119:18

show

119:21

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[Applause]

119:38

woo Justice I'm for justice yes lazy

119:43

King ladies and

119:45

[Applause]

119:48

gentlemen

119:51

and a special guest a very special guest

119:54

joining us inside the smart

119:57

cage multiple time NBA champion Hall of

120:01

Famer an icon in sport here in France in

120:06

the United States where I'm from Tony

120:08

Parker thank you so much for being here

120:11

your impressions of the pfl in this huge

120:15

MMA event here in Paris English you can

120:18

do both in English and then we'll do it

120:19

in French sure I'm happy happy to be

120:22

here happy to be at a at a great event

120:25

here in my country in my hometown so uh

120:27

hopefully it's going to be exciting

120:28

night I'm here to see Cedric so I hope

120:31

he's going to

120:40

[Applause]

120:48

perform

120:58

looking forward to it Tony Parker a

121:01

pleasure to meet you thank you for being

121:03

here Tony's party Parker ladies and

121:18

gentl

121:42

braking Tony Parker you love it I

121:46

mean he's a big deal everywhere

121:50

to being the best in the

122:17

world

122:32

fight fans we are in Paris France for

122:34

the launch of our 2024 pfl Europe season

122:38

the city of lights tonight is all about

122:41

the fights here at a soldout eor

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Arena the largest event in mixed martial

122:48

arts history here in this beautiful

122:50

country sellout

122:54

crowd all waiting for the walk out and

122:58

the

122:59

performance of an absolute

123:17

icon

123:20

[Applause]

123:22

eager anticipation

123:30

here Dan Hardy Stephan stru I'm Sean

123:33

oconnell we have talked about this the

123:36

fact that it is incredibly rare in the

123:39

sport of mixed martial arts to find a

123:41

true Superstar On The

123:46

Rise

123:47

these Fighters like this personalities

123:50

like this we haven't seen many of them

123:53

in the young history of this sport of

123:55

mixed martial arts and undeniably Cedric

123:59

Dumay able to sell out an arena he

124:02

belongs on the list with the names that

124:05

everybody knows already he's only five

124:07

fights deep it's incredible this I mean

124:10

this whole event what the the fure that

124:12

that Cedric's been able to create in

124:15

this in this country is like nothing

124:17

else I've ever seen like it's going to

124:20

take me a few days to recover from this

124:22

emotionally because this is just so

124:24

overwhelming we have over 16,000 seats

124:26

in this Arena and I'm looking around and

124:29

not one of them is being used right now

124:31

everybody is on their feet everybody is

124:33

anticipating this walk out and every

124:35

single person in this room will remember

124:38

this event for the rest of their lives

124:40

this is a special night for all of us

124:42

feel very grateful to be

124:47

here

124:50

Baki that's boram

124:53

sudanov that's Cedric

124:56

Dumay these guys so heated all week back

125:00

and forth you couldn't get them in the

125:01

same spot without the tension and the

125:04

camps butting heads and going back and

125:07

forth and we settle it in a mere few

125:10

moments here in

125:17

Paris

125:21

a welterweight Main Event Cedric

125:24

dumb by Sor Baki sham

125:40

[Applause]

125:47

sud

125:49

introducing first fighting out of the

125:52

blue Corner BYU

126:02

[Music]

126:10

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126:17

shamov

126:24

[Music]

126:30

22 years old

126:32

undefeated 7 and0 an incredible

126:39

Powerhouse in the welterweight division

126:42

baky sham

126:47

sudanov looking to spoil the fun for a

126:51

sellout crowd tonight and stake his

126:56

claim at mixed martial arts

127:11

[Music]

127:17

startle

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[Music]

127:22

make no mistake this is not a mismatch

127:24

that young man is

127:27

formidable

127:29

well-rounded the toughest test of SE

127:32

du's

127:39

career and in the Red

127:43

Corner Cedric

127:47

goom

127:57

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f

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[Applause]

128:43

[Music]

128:47

that

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[Applause]

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128:56

[Applause]

129:05

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don't

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[Music]

129:23

[Applause]

129:28

[Music]

129:36

undefeated at 5-0 Cedric

129:42

Dumay makes his highly anticipated

129:44

return to the smart cage in Paris

129:49

[Music]

130:00

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to

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[Applause]

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she

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[Music]

130:52

[Applause]

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some

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[Music]

131:35

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131:44

Cedric Doom

131:46

Bay and his fans have set quite a stage

131:50

here in Paris as we take a look at the

131:53

tail of the tape for this welterweight M

131:58

event D 32 years of age Baki sham

132:02

sudanov is 22 both men 5'8 in

132:06

tall reach advantage on the arms belongs

132:09

to Cedric Dumay both men turned in a

132:12

41in measurement on the

132:14

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132:17

legs

132:20

all right Keys the victory Cedric D of

132:22

course defend early takedowns counter

132:25

punching will be the safer route than

132:27

leading scramble to safety of course for

132:30

sham sudanov establish that jab Pap Pap

132:33

set up the take down of course and the

132:34

jab will be a big part of that and then

132:36

if he can trap Cedric against the fence

132:38

that is where baky does his best

132:41

[Music]

132:44

work the voice of our smart cage Andy

132:47

Shepard one more time ladies and

132:51

gentlemen Paris France we have arrived

132:55

at our main event of the evening and the

132:59

world is

133:02

watching introducing first fighting out

133:05

of the blue corner he is an MMA

133:07

specialist and stands 5' 8 in tall he

133:12

weighed officially at

133:15

17.4 and he holds a perfect

133:18

professional record of seven wins and no

133:22

losses fighting out of Paris

133:26

France

133:28

BYU

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133:40

Becky and his opponent fighting out of

133:43

the Red Corner he is a striking

133:46

specialist and stands 5T 8 in tall he

133:49

went in officially at

133:51

17.2 lb and he holds an undefeated

133:55

record of five victories and no defeats

133:59

all five wins com in by way of

134:03

knockout fighting out of Paris

134:08

France

134:10

Cedric the

134:13

best Doom

134:16

Bay

134:22

and your refere in charge Mark

134:29

Godard okay gentlemen you understand the

134:32

rules you listen all times keep yourself

134:34

protected when I say stop you stop if

134:36

you want to touch do it now if you want

134:38

to touch do it now God

134:46

bless

134:53

Cedric Cedric dubet and the black trunks

134:57

Baki shabanov in the green two

135:00

undefeated

135:01

Fighters

135:03

ready here we go touch of the

135:09

gloves and the low stance again for

135:13

Cedric

135:16

Dumay

135:29

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135:30

one of these special fights my heart is

135:34

[Applause]

135:38

pounding look at the width of bakam

135:41

sudanov

135:43

back Cedric's trying to attempt backy to

135:46

throw so he can counter smart move if he

135:49

throws first backy is going to level

135:51

change there it is there's the kick

135:54

perfect job by Baki CH

135:57

zinov very interesting

135:59

[Applause]

136:01

scenario and now we see C to Bay on his

136:04

back butterfly hooks

136:09

in Cham sov is so incredibly strong in

136:12

this position butterflies oh beautiful

136:16

job here what a stand up there by Cedric

136:19

Dum confidence builder for the

136:22

kickboxing world champion and what a

136:24

statement as well to be able to create

136:27

space so easily with your butterfly

136:28

hooks pop back to his feet nice jab

136:32

ducked under the overhand ride from

136:36

baky threatens the rear legs d bay I

136:39

think he's going to start thinking about

136:40

that rear knee now he's got the time in

136:42

the back his level

136:46

change

136:49

and you can see how tentative baky is to

136:52

throw any strikes in his direction oh

136:54

kick catch nice snatch single there

136:58

by great scramble by Doom yet again can

137:02

get back up no baky wrestles all the way

137:04

to the top and again here's those

137:06

butterfly hooks Cedric D on his back for

137:10

the second time in this

137:12

fight two minutes gone staying very calm

137:15

and Chino is not taking any risk cuz

137:18

he's afraid Doom is going to pop right

137:20

back up again this risk this hand

137:22

control here is fantastic you can see

137:24

D's got the the butterfly hooks on the

137:26

inside he's not allowing he's not

137:29

allowing baky to all to pass his guard

137:32

beautiful work here from baky though now

137:34

he's starting to circle around in this

137:35

direction he's passed a half guard Dub's

137:38

got the overhook he's got the frame on

137:40

the inside of the bicep as well he's

137:42

doing all the right things beautiful job

137:44

there by gry R by

137:49

baky floats and stays on the back of

137:52

Cedric

137:55

Dum Baki sham sudanov wanted to be in

137:58

these positions wants to wrestle in this

138:00

fight wear out the legs and the hips of

138:04

Cedric du take away his striking

138:10

power I'm

138:12

impressed oh trying to create space but

138:15

beautiful taked down by ch sadena

138:19

I've been impressed so far by by d's

138:21

grappling skills of course they're

138:23

almost entirely defensive but he's able

138:25

to create space very

138:28

easily same again here with the

138:30

butterfly hooks duay using those inside

138:33

frames so he can control back his

138:36

striking I expect du to pop up to his

138:38

feet any moment here maybe even temp

138:41

backing with a back exposure to see if

138:44

he'll chase that rear naked choke

138:46

goes

138:48

good job by Tom sadena to hold on the

138:50

leg and there's a beautiful M

138:52

[Applause]

138:56

return good work by baky here invested

138:58

in those thighs he is so incredibly

139:02

strong one minute left in round number

139:05

one all baky in the wrestling so

139:09

far keeping Centric d bay on the

139:13

defensive

139:14

really there cre space

139:19

45 seconds to work back in the center of

139:22

the smart cage I'd love to know what's

139:25

going on inside the mind of bassing yam

139:28

sudanov right now couple good jobs there

139:30

by

139:31

Bary I think Cedric's allowing him to

139:34

throw those Jabs though he's trying to

139:35

build his confidence in the Striking

139:37

range so he can play there a little

139:40

bit that overhand Right is coming in a

139:43

moment if AI commits to that jab again

139:45

du's looping over the top

139:48

there's a good job by

139:54

D final 10 seconds of round number one

139:57

Baki with another

139:59

jab super low stands for dunay making

140:02

that lead leg look very difficult to get

140:04

to Big right hand at the end for baky

140:07

good first round for CH Sabino

140:12

there what a first round what a first

140:14

round so let's take a look at this

140:16

takedown beautiful efficiency of baky

140:19

here sees the kick coming grabs the leg

140:21

and then drives himself over his

140:23

opponent drives Doom to the canvas look

140:25

at that leg

140:27

catch nice twist there drives his

140:30

opponent to the canvas picks the leg up

140:31

but good work by Doom spinning out baky

140:35

constantly trying to stay over on top of

140:37

him though watch d bay peel out of the

140:39

side here this is lovely work heavy

140:42

heavy pressure by baky but the footwork

140:44

of dunay up against the fence was

140:45

impressive to me

140:48

one more time for Doom scrambles backy

140:50

stays on the body lock up and down

140:54

strong first round for backy but maybe a

140:56

statement made

141:11

for conell Stephan stro Dan

141:15

Hardy cage side inside the kar Main

141:18

Event Cedric Dumay sold out this aor

141:21

building in 20 minutes or so against

141:23

bakam sudanov who took round one with

141:26

the

141:27

grappling that right hand's coming over

141:29

the top for Doom I feel like he's

141:32

tempting backy to throw that jab

141:34

offering him a Target so he can slip it

141:36

there it is again look at baky is I

141:40

think faster than du might have at first

141:42

anticipated with his

141:44

strikes hasn't yet been able to uncork

141:46

anything

141:49

John McCarthy round number one very

141:51

interesting what do you think it

141:53

definitely was baky absolutely won it

141:55

but you got to look at D go back to the

141:57

very first kickboxing champion in MMA

142:00

Maurice Smith used a butterfly guard

142:02

took his time was relaxed and that's

142:04

what I'm seeing out of D so at 22 years

142:06

of age is baky going to start to get

142:08

frustrated when he can't hold him

142:11

down starting to show that uppercut

142:13

there a good left from

142:16

dum

142:18

shot to the

142:20

body quickness on display here from

142:22

chudinov as

142:28

well good discipline from baky a

142:31

22-year-old individual and defeated

142:33

walking out into this crowd he's

142:36

managing himself and his emotions very

142:38

well that time he threw the right hand

142:41

Cedric made a Miss but it's been all

142:45

defense for Cedric mostly with the

142:48

left good

142:51

jab go is not throwing the leg kicks

142:54

anymore that's what what got him oh good

142:57

job there stumbled baky it looked like

143:00

he was preparing the level change

143:02

there's a h for Cedric D and D is still

143:06

not thrown that right hand over the top

143:08

and I think that's because he doesn't

143:10

want byy to know it's coming I think

143:12

he's being very very patient here

143:14

drawing the jab when backy comes he

143:17

going to slip come over the top with

143:18

that right hand great work with the lead

143:20

hand from Doom so far Jabs to the Head

143:23

Jabs to the body shows the uppercut

143:27

again Jam sub's wrestling has taking the

143:30

legs of Cedric dumb out of the first

143:32

portion of this second

143:36

round you can see the Comfort Cedric Dum

143:39

has in the Striking he's willing to hang

143:41

his head out there oh there's another

143:44

quick jab that was incredibly ACC

143:47

accurate considering back he was level

143:48

changing at the same time jabing to the

143:51

oh good level change Again by got a hold

143:54

of the leg and do may stay on his feet

143:56

here's the body lock from

143:59

Baki he's got him down he's got him on

144:01

one

144:11

knee Go's got an underhook on the left

144:14

side good job

144:16

there warning from Mark Godard a quick

144:18

cheeky fence grap there from

144:22

Doom D staying relaxed here chamsa

144:26

pressuring heavy but not yet reaching

144:29

down to the legs got to hold of the

144:31

wrist and break free back to the center

144:33

they go this time Cham sudanov claims

144:36

the real estate in the

144:42

middle oh that was a good Cham zov

144:45

caught Cedric Dum coming in

144:50

[Applause]

144:52

[Music]

145:02

very interesting D really struggling to

145:04

get going with his strik in here bak's

145:06

jab is lightning quick and he's being

145:08

very disciplined and not overc

145:10

committing to any of his strikes

145:12

exposing gaps and holes for Doom to take

145:15

advantage of

145:17

there's another of those

145:21

[Applause]

145:22

Jabs he's Rocky's being very patient but

145:26

he's he's not really scoring much Dum

145:28

with constant pressure Landing a jab now

145:31

and

145:32

then that jab is getting a little bit

145:34

more meaningful for baky he has to be

145:37

very careful oh the right hand right

145:39

hand yeah the first one and it landed

145:43

chab sudanov shrugs it off incredible

145:46

toughness

145:54

he walking him down more and

145:59

more I think we're going to see that

146:01

rear knee coming in a moment he's

146:03

showing all kinds of Center Channel

146:05

attacks uppercuts and knees to try and

146:07

discourage that level change that

146:09

doesn't mean he won't fire that when he

146:10

sees the opportunity 10 seconds to

146:13

go on the Right End by good head

146:17

movement there from

146:20

baky and another to

146:22

finish two rounds in the books much

146:25

better second round for Cedric

146:27

Dum a very tough round to score because

146:30

you saw baky Landing that jab

146:33

consistently I think the most

146:34

significant strike of the round belonged

146:36

to

146:38

Cedric that right hand at the end of the

146:40

round was very nicely time I think he's

146:43

going to have to pick his Pace up this

146:44

next round last round you cannot be sure

146:47

how this is going to go in the

146:48

scorecards you've got backy with the

146:50

level changes with the insta gate look

146:52

at that beautiful timing on that jab I

146:55

feel like we might be one round of piece

146:56

here I just I don't think either of

146:59

these guys could be sitting on their

147:00

stool right now confident that it's in

147:02

the

147:12

bag very methodical forward movement

147:15

from that lead leg of Cedric Dumay I

147:18

don't know if it's injured or if that he

147:20

wants to keep his feet planted in order

147:22

to sprawl more effectively in order to

147:25

negate forward momentum from baky more

147:29

effectively very interesting that low

147:32

stance Cedric Dum may be loosening up

147:35

here for round number

147:38

three pfl

147:40

Europe Paris opening the season and this

147:43

is your main

147:45

event Cedric in the black bison Baki

147:49

shamov in the

147:52

green nice right hand after the hook and

147:55

a good sprawl and now du swinging

147:59

away confidence Builder shrugging off

148:03

that takedown attempt from baky both

148:06

guys are opening up in

148:09

third I believe this is the deciding

148:11

round 100% more sense than

148:15

ever

148:17

[Applause]

148:20

incredible energy in the arena little

148:23

bird told me Big John McCarthy's got

148:25

this one around the piece the right hand

148:27

landed again for Doom Bay sham sudanov

148:30

so tough snaps his head right back

148:32

around he's been hit solidly by the

148:35

kickboxing world champion many times

148:38

going here

148:40

keep Cedric D indicating something wrong

148:43

with his foot or

148:45

toe

148:52

b b is going to have to put his foot on

148:54

the gas here come on

148:58

fight the fight been off what's going on

149:03

Mark Gard waves it

149:05

off Cedric

149:08

D calling for attention to his foot

149:11

speaking with

149:14

baky an injury to the toe

149:26

oh a strange finish to this main

149:32

event I think there might be a

149:34

sliver in Cedric D's

149:41

toe huh

149:45

me

149:51

you know we can't do that you can't call

149:53

a time out I understand what you say but

149:56

the second time I didn't say I don't

149:58

want to fight Jed you can't I understand

150:03

he did I understand what you say I can't

150:06

stop the fight the first time you told

150:08

me yes the second time he he talk to you

150:11

no I told you to keep fighting said we

150:13

can stood back and said no you

150:15

can't

150:18

that's a TKO so you hear the case being

150:20

made by Mark G he Big John McCarthy you

150:25

heard I'm sure what Gard was just

150:27

explaining to Cedric dbai you heard the

150:30

case being made by

150:32

Cedric what's going on here what's going

150:35

on is you had Cedric Dum say that he has

150:38

something wrong with his foot you can't

150:40

call timeout now if something was done

150:42

by the an incident indic cases it was a

150:45

foul mark would call a time to it and

150:47

take care of the problem but when Cedric

150:49

dubet says oh my foot and then he tells

150:53

him no fight on and then he again goes

150:55

back to he's got a problem with his foot

150:57

that's a self-inflicted injury or an

150:59

injury that was caused by something fair

151:02

in the fight you're trying to call a

151:04

timeout to gain something in that Mark

151:07

Godard is completely right in this it is

151:08

a TKO victory for

151:10

Bak just an unbelievably unfortunate

151:13

turn of events here in a main event that

151:15

was just here up in round number

151:19

three some

151:22

confusion and a pause in the action from

151:25

Cedric Dubay an apparent sliver maybe a

151:29

toe

151:31

injury looks like a close makes it look

151:34

like there's a sliver in hise from the

151:36

cage

151:40

maybe talk about an

151:42

anticlimax

151:45

a

151:50

Tom me twice you can't stop the fight

151:53

tried to stop the

151:56

fight you can see he's favoring the foot

151:59

he's favoring the

152:05

toe wincing at something Mark Godard

152:08

says you can't stop the fight there's no

152:10

timeouts fight on baky is

152:15

questioning a touch of the

152:33

gloves so Baki sham sudanov looks to

152:36

Mark Godard and says he's not fighting

152:39

he doesn't want to fight and Mark Gard

152:41

calls the fight on

152:44

that controversial to say the least Big

152:48

John McCarthy says it's the right call

152:50

this is going to be seen and evaluated

152:52

in replay over and over and over

152:54

again a very very unfortunate

152:58

anticlimactic result here in our main

153:01

event we'll make it official with Andy

153:04

shepher ladies and

153:06

gentlemen ladies and gentlemen

153:09

referee Mark

153:13

Gard ladies and gentlemen

153:16

referee Mark godon has C A Hal to the

153:18

action at 1 minute and 21 seconds of

153:22

round number three declaring your winner

153:25

Ryan TKO bison

153:30

[Applause]

153:45

jeanos

154:04

[Applause]

154:07

here what what we have right now if

154:09

you're looking when you see baky he does

154:11

back up but when you see Cedric Dubai

154:14

say I have something wrong with my foot

154:17

it is there's nothing that's been done

154:18

that's illegal so he's going to have to

154:20

fight through the injury it's what we

154:21

call self-inflicted and then you see

154:23

them start to go and baky stops like hey

154:26

you're you're you don't want to fight

154:28

and Cedric again looks at Mark Goddard

154:30

and points to his foot illustrating that

154:33

he has an injury to his foot once that's

154:36

done Mark Goddard has got to call the

154:38

fight the fight is over it is a

154:40

technical knockout victory for baky

154:42

based upon what we call a self-inflicted

154:45

injury

154:52

all right let's get this over to

154:54

Sean I'm here with Cedric Dumay we'll

154:58

get to the winner Baki Cham sudanov in

155:00

just a

155:02

moment

155:03

Cedric explain for me if you will first

155:06

in English then in French if you don't

155:08

mind what just happened in your

155:15

view

155:21

glass he like glass in his

155:24

feet a sliver you have glass in your

155:26

foot uh in in English

155:29

first uh first of all thank you for

155:32

everyone to watch the

155:38

fight

155:42

list uh so I didn't want to stop the

155:45

fight and not at all I wanted to fight

155:48

of course as everybody so but I have

155:51

like a small I I still have because I

155:53

don't want to remove it I don't want

155:55

people to say I'm a liar I have a small

155:58

uh a small um glass glass on my foot I

156:02

don't know uh Inside the Cage so is

156:05

hurting me I just want to remove it and

156:08

uh keep going so the referee told me you

156:09

can't stop I say okay I wanted to fight

156:12

and then my opponent he is looking at me

156:16

he's saying that something is uh

156:17

annoying me he said just remove it and

156:20

then we stop both together looking at

156:22

the referee and then he stopped the

156:24

fight is not his fault of course that's

156:27

not his fault that's just the referee

156:30

fault but you know it is what it is I I

156:32

don't even know what to say you know I

156:33

still have the the the thing on my uh on

156:36

my toes I really don't know what to say

156:38

you know I wanted to fight I don't I

156:40

don't

156:44

understand

157:06

[Applause]

157:14

for

157:44

okay

157:55

before we let you go

157:57

Cedric clearly this is not settled this

158:00

is not the climax this is not the Finish

158:03

anybody wanted do you want to run it

158:05

back would you like to fight baky again

158:14

boom

158:17

[Applause]

158:27

[Applause]

158:29

fight of

158:44

course of course fight again thank you

158:47

Cedric baky

158:50

please

158:52

baky you won the first round with your

158:55

wrestling your jab was looking good and

158:58

then the fight gets called off because

158:59

of a strange situation an injury

159:02

something in Cedric's foot how are you

159:04

feeling right now it's a win for you but

159:07

this is not how you wanted to

159:14

win

159:26

extion we' like to thank first the crowd

159:29

for coming for this exceptional event

159:30

and he's going to work on his English

159:32

soon but yeah he's gonna answer in

159:38

[Music]

159:44

French

160:07

I'm gonna translate what you said so of

160:09

course a lot of respect for Cedric this

160:11

is not the way he wanted to win he's a

160:13

legend a kickboxing Legend So This is

160:15

definitely another way he wanted to win

160:17

and yeah he'd like to thank the whole

160:19

crowd for coming tonight

160:22

sobaki can we see it

160:26

again Baki do you want to fight Cedric

160:30

again and settle it for

160:44

real

160:49

[Applause]

161:04

he said of course he would like to beat

161:06

him again but in a bigger stadium and

161:08

with more money you know that pfl has a

161:10

lot of money so yeah with more money

161:13

he'll definitely come back and a Bigg

161:14

Stadium because he didn't have a lot of

161:16

pressure

161:17

tonight the soldout acorn not enough

161:20

pressure for baky I hope we see this

161:22

again thank you one last

161:44

word

161:47

[Music]

161:51

[Applause]

161:59

I just want to say thank you for

162:00

everyone to watch the fight we still

162:02

rival we want to we want to do the this

162:05

fight again I I I made I made a promise

162:08

I will knock him out I have to to know

162:10

to Mark to back it up uh he's the good

162:12

guy uh the most important is that we are

162:14

brothers in Islam we are Muslim and uh

162:17

the most important thing is coming is

162:18

Ramadan so I want to thanks all the

162:20

Muslim and also all uh the other people

162:25

[Music]

162:26

Mercy thank you both I hope we see it

162:29

again and I hope we see it again soon m

162:32

c good

162:44

night

162:51

all right take down of the night let's

162:53

have a look at this we had some good

162:55

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162:56

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163:00

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163:02

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163:05

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164:01

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164:06

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164:10

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164:14

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164:16

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[Music]

164:35

[Music]

164:44

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