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[Music] foreign [Applause] I mean after a strong Strickland fight he weighed himself and he was somewhere in the neighborhood of 220 plus pounds oh my goodness well his coach told us yeah he’ll be 210 2 15 tonight yeah oh yeah unreal all right here we go round one for the Undisputed UFC middleweight Championship out of Sonya is in the green with gold trim Alex perdeta is in the yellow here we go here we go here we go this this one is gonna be fun boys ottasania seemingly as relaxed as I’ve ever seen him before a fight it’s crazy because he’s lost to the guy and he has so much confidence in this matchup well he’s a better fighter he’s a better fighter than he was then yes improved so much especially the MMA I believe that has improved as well but stylebender is right now one of the very best fighters on planet Earth that’s where the confidence is coming from this is an opportunity for him to get revenge and to show how great he truly is but it’s a dangerous one gonna be interesting to see if either man tries to mix in any wrestling I mean he it’s amazing how much bigger the hair looks he looks like a light heavyweight yeah he does it’s similar to the Amber hovich fight and potato certainly looks a lot bigger than he did in those kickboxing meetings five years ago those are two very good leg kicks there about the hair oh man now he goes up high is he’s gonna have to check some kicks [Applause] arasanya with those beautiful subtle stance switches as usual and faints man he does a masterful job of fainting to set you up tries to drop reactions and generally in fighting he draws out big reactions I don’t imagine he would draw those same reactions from this guy no who’s been in front of him before he’s been in front of him and also he’s fought world-class kickboxers on a regular basis nice offering there by adesanya Pereira did say he was going to try to Pace himself for five rounds never been 25 minutes thank you under three minutes here to go in round one that out of Sonya right the most significant strike thus far he’s got him reacting now look at what he does after that right hand the Hannah’s uh he’s doing a little bit of reacting yeah now it’ll be on Izzy to go and take advantage of it well this is what it is he does to everybody he finds where your weaknesses are finds the holes and he starts launching one of those things that he didn’t do against beholden she would set him up but he wouldn’t attack he’s got for hero reacting now but he’s gotta attack him the Heritage there’s so much danger when he gets close to you inside leg kick is there for out of Sonya two minutes now to go round one as he goes high already some significant swelling under that right eye padeta Izzy goes High to try to back him off of him a lot of leg kicks landed by both guys you went high but just glanced did low take place oh good kick to the body got under the elbow I talked to Edison in Dallas and this guy his the way he talked about what he wanted to do to Fajita was crazy I never really heard him talk like this about opponents good kick to the body there by bajara but it was a great shot had a good inside leg kick from the champion to counter just over a minute it’s going around well this is the only guy to beat him the way he beat I mean behovah’s beat him by decision but the hand up put him out and he wants to get that back we asked padena which guy was more likely to try to wrestle or grapple and he said I think I would be the guy who’d have more success chasing takedowns but he expected that avasani people were likely to do that tonight oh good kick to the bottom [Applause] just throws that big body kick [Applause] situation beautiful body lock by the chair oh look at these body shots hard shots of the body nice need in the body too very interesting that is he’s clinching with him making him think you gotta mix it up but in that quenching Herrera had more success he landed some good body shots and he landed a big knee [Applause] people here catches him right where the ear meets the jaw and then that left hook the left hook was like at the buzzer right let’s see it again right the left hook is after the buzz but he had started to throw and left I believe before the horn so a legal strike and we’ll see if the champ can capitalize he’s trying to calm down the Madison Square Garden masses Grenada looking for more of that noise round two early leg kick for the champ but now that Cam’s going to get some respect yes he did he hurt him very bad in that second fight and they gave pahanna a standing eight count which very likely saved him there’s no standing in here though oh man it seems to have recovered but you never know oh good luck to the body about to hit up a little slip on the fence that offering from Pereira is he’s got to stop him from getting so close the dangers when Alex hits close is he’s got to throw that right hand [Applause] coach Dean Thomas what do you have sir the one thing is he’s doing this beautiful is he’s switching up between throwing that right hand but when Alice gets really close he just grabs his hands to disrupt him from hunting and it’s like that it is beautiful because Alex has a hard time getting around that good point gaining you saw some frustration from today to try to communicate to his Corner after round one you know that’s one of the things about kickboxing a lot of the actions taking place in a very short space the big octagon seems to be favoring arasania right now but Paramore is having a lot of success he had a good first round until he got hurt [Applause] head body leg discrepancy there not much success upstairs for potato thus far good inside low kick there by Izzy awesome Point here round two to your channel Alex is going to have to stop reacting he’s gonna have to lead a little bit Joe if he wants a chance he’s gonna have to take some chances by the Challenger yeah oh man the jacket stabs money I mean he hits so hard you can hear him when he lands he heard him he heard him with that shot in tight [Applause] another thing to take into consideration look at this the shooting for the takedown is he going to a single leg another thing to take into consideration is the five round fight yep five rounds we’ve never seen him play ahead of do five rounds and he’s he’s never had to fight a guy as talented as Israel right hand the foreign crypto platform in the World download now that’s the difference if you tell Alex that he has to spark oh [Applause] it’s not hands from the Challenger if you tell him he’s got a kickbox for 25 minutes he can do it all day yeah but you’re mixing all the grappling and everything else that entails the Mixed Martial Arts fight you wonder if he’ll hold up they both land Jabs at the same time there oh beautiful knee but again look is he’s clinching nicely done right was Landing some really good shots this round man big jams couple right hands nice big left hook and knees in tight here these are these are Big Shots these body shots are closed the knees they’re very Telly and they’re the ones that make you tired as the fight goes longer anasania proven strong in these clinch situations despite being the smaller man put it defending in front of his corn Izzy’s using a lot of energy trying to take this guy down we’ve never seen that assanya try to wrestle this much head kick s to the body oh and these wild exchanges is where Pat is most dangerous he’s making Izzy uncomfortable and now Panera shoots oh my goodness look at this [Applause] 10 minutes in the can now here we go here’s Izzy with the Jab and Alex lands his jab and a thudding jab it was and here’s more Izzy beautiful right hand and there’s a nice jab by Alex now here’s the head kick and he basically just kind of bounced off the shoulder and touched the face but here’s the takedown that was a weird takedown dude look at that I mean he just like he’s just hanging on him so much he’s trying to take him down [Applause] he’s heating up it is yeah it is when Izzy was struggling with LX is when he had him back against the Octagon he’s got to be the one pressed in advance the problem is Herrera just gets big on him right he starts to stalk him and walk into him and almost the posture of Pereira is very scary because he’s such a big guy in there and the consequences of him connecting on you are so dangerous defensively there as we have come to expect from the champ [Music] they have both thrown 93 strikes has landed 50 out of Sonya 45. [Applause] and this is when see how Izzy landed the right hand Alex then he wants to rush that’s when he starts to get a bit aggressive right and go after Izzy right this is where Izzy’s got to stand his ground [Applause] so it is look at this and it’s on you with a beautiful takedown oh [Applause] by the champion big left hands is this controlling that bottom wrist first career UFC takedown for the champ and look at pereira’s lack of knowledge to go and attack that wrist he’s got to attack that hand to clear it if he wants to get up he just wants to get up to his feet Yes once he kind of power himself up to the feet but it’s hard you got to clear your wrists otherwise Izzy just pulls you back to the side that he’s got trapped not a lot of this going on in the kickboxing realm under three minutes round three solid left hands there landed by the champion just trying to stand up is he’s doing a great job of keeping his right wrist man and then he digs the hook in and Pereira is trying to Elbow him to the thigh that does nothing you got to be trying to get back to your feet all in the wrist control that wrist control has caused him real issues great two on one there by Edison who would have thought and this will exhaust you this will exhaust Herrera yes that wrist control is so important because now Alex has to address that before he can get to his feet he can’t post with his hands that’s why he’s leaned over forward on asani making some of these left hands count gets one hook in [Applause] a long two minutes for the Challenger he’s almost up but he’s got to be attacking hands right now Izzy did a great job there down again look at this look at Izzy’s forward pressure keeping his hands locked and driving the pressure forward towards the map Herrera needs to oh no [Applause] mistake there by Anna Sawyer yeah but a mistake might be hit it too yeah and then he abandoned it I’m just trying to get back up to the seat he’s exhausted Pereira looks tired now it’s all the grappling and this is where you would expect a championship experience of addisonia to start to take four and show itself yeah look in the big deep breaths from The Challenge oh that was a good elbow from the bottom almost three minutes of Ground Control time ferrada Sonia here in this third round under a minute to go now it’s crazy too because Pereira was the reason to take the tank he tried to step across the position where he had no chance to score take down Izzy’s gonna throw elbow here he can take it over the top while Pereira is grabbing the wrist oh nice left hand good morning Glover’s telling Pereira to hold on 30 seconds [Applause] is he needs to try to pass the feet if he wants to land something big he’s got to catch both feet pass and throw ax kick to the body [Applause] big round for the champion and there’s no 90 hard worker within Alex potato we’ll see how the cardiovascular base holds up but it’s not as though he’s breathing super heavy he’s lip smacking here to avisanya round four of a possible fight and again all the grappling is not familiar to Izzy right this is something different for him too so but Izzy’s not cutting that kind of weight either no that’s when that starts to show itself yes every MMA round begins on the feet yeah but that’s no picnic either no I mean I mean Israel had a son he’s a bad man on the feet I wish we got to see that takedown in the middle of the rounds [Applause] nonetheless nice leg kick out of Sanya Pereira is trying to get a break trying to kind of recover a little bit you can tell does activity slow it’s slowed down boom a jab earlier and then that right hand very clean that’s is he picking up reeds good morning [Applause] this is where I like is dangerous in this position [Applause] [Music] attacking all areas to great effect [Applause] as Pereira gets tired and he starts to slow the champion has all this Championship wrong experience that he’s relying on yes and just MMA experience yes we’re talking about a guy who’s really only four fights in his MMA career and in his fifth fight he’s fighting one of the greatest middleweights of all time wow but it is pace and activity is really Wayne here Johnny’s exhausted Mouse open and he’s barely throwing now he’s tired it was all the grappling in round three paid dividends for the champion but they’d also having a hard time planting on that lead leg courtesy of all those out of Sonya leg kicks has landed 27-30 has Izzy unofficially pretty futile offensively for Paden really round four he faked level change oh look at that he did it again he’s very tired he’s tired foreign and this also speaks to the lack of experience he didn’t fight a Robert Whittaker he didn’t fight a Marvin vittori didn’t quite a guy yeah big guys guys who could take him down he got fast tracked and I mean he fought well he let me fought well in round one fought well in round two but as you would expect here they’re starting to fatigue down the stretch and this is where the champion seems to be starting to pull away from him and this was the concern about the weight cutting like the extreme weight cutting how is that going to affect grappling and now we’re finding out wait was the last guy on the scale also yep five minutes left and he made it what Championship medal though for Madison after a tough round two yeah to take control in this fight in rounds three and four but we got a minute left if Barrera can make something big happen here and now he seems that look he’s he’s pressing on the gas a little bit [Applause] big Jab oh it is he’s trying to quench now because he felt the danger he was going forward nice name to the body but these are the ones these are what this is what he was doing early in the fight when they got to the clinch digging knees punching to the body trying to make the champion pay for getting close [Applause] he’s tired and he was starting to recover so Edison you put him right back in that grappling position okay as he loads up on the elbow over the top just misses waning seconds here round four 20 down five to go [Applause] audisanya five minutes away from remaining the UFC standard at 185 pounds Fifth and Final Round it seems like we’re looking at about three we’re looking at three one pretty comfortably for the champion but the danger is still there with this guy oh nice left to the body and now he knows he doesn’t have to fight another round after this he can empty the town yeah he’s gonna fight hard to cut that right hand through Herrera can land when he grows it just has not been able to keep up the pace of that lasagna thank you and of course there’s always that inherent risk the more offense you throw the more likely you are to get counter and caught in the clinch right so every time he gets here in long periods of time have passing certainly didn’t sit on his lead against Leonard’s big leg kick for potato no he’s a check that was a check he checked the kick and it hurt Izzy’s leg he checked the kick and it heard the Champions League he tripped himself yeah so just sort of a wayward step or so it appeared that’s all it is he looks fine in these motions he does had his most success for the body tonight [Applause] [Applause] but I know but I know the Undisputed middleweight champion oh my goodness he he so is he’s Against the Cage he pops him at the jab right hand yeah it was the right hand it stung them a little bit and then the uppercut the uppercut stung them again and then another one he’s in big trouble there and then again no I mean he was her badge you could have stopped this long time ago Mark Goddard gave him a total time he gave him all the time but look he’s not even looking oh my goodness with an immediate protest yeah I I mean he’s a champion I can see yeah look at how short that left the power is beautiful this dude is crazy look there’s no doubt he was in deep deep trouble could you make the argument that you should put the champ out maybe the way he’s moving it looked like he was gone look at clover look at Clover oh my goodness and for Nelly Feliz and plinio Cruz Alex put it his right hand man a lot of Sonya ever classy acknowledging the crowd this one is going to sting for a while for a long time ladies and gentlemen referee Mark Goddard that’s called a stop to this contest uh two minutes one second of the fifth round declaring the winner by gko and [Applause] this is Undisputed middleweight champion of the world [Applause] oh [Applause]