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* Tournament Match
Fight #1: Pedro Rizzo vs. Sergei Kharitonov
Rd1: Sergei controls the entire fight, gets and early takedown and controls from the top position, landing knees, punches. Eventually fight gets back to the feet, but Sergei outboxes Pedro, rocking him and follows him to the ground for the TKO ref stoppage.
Result: Kharitonov wins via (t)ko round 1
Fight #2: Shogun Rua vs. Rogerio Nogeira*
Too much action to summarize, suffice to say it was an action packed fight with both guys doing damage in all rounds.
Result: Shogun Rua wins via UD
Fight #3: Igor vs Overeem*
round 1. flying knee by listar misses. slight trading. clinch and knee. two knees by alistar. Igor counterpunches. Clinch takedown by Alistar. Igor gets out. Alistar has Guillot9ine. IGOR TAPS.
Result: Alistair Overeem wins via tapout (guillotine) rd. 1
Fight #4: Cro Cop vs. Magomedov
round 1. jumping around the ring. nothing happeneing. both fighters so tentative. Mag goes for wild punch. misses bya mile. middle kick by Mirko. low kick by Mirko. Mag counter punches. nice punch by Mirko. nice middle kicks. high kick by mirko but blocked. body kick. nice punch by Mirko.HIGH KICK. mag still alive. trading. Nice punch by Mirko. MIDDLE KICK. IT'S OVER. LIVER KICK.
Result: CroCop wins via tko ref stoppage rd.1
Fight #5: vs. Makoto Takimoto vs. Kiyoshi Tamura
The entire fight was relatively uneventful, Tamura appeared to be toying with him for a good portion of the fight...or at least able to do damage at will. In the 3rd round Takimoto finally started to try some different things, but it was too late.
Result: Tamura wins via UD.
Fight #6: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Pawel Nastula
Nice first MMA fight for Nastula. He took Nog down several times and attempted some submissions, but nothing of great quality and Nog escaped. Nog got gnp position more than Nastula, and eventually ended up on top GNP'ing until the ref was forced to stop the fight.
Result: Rodrigo Nogeira wins via TKO (ref) rd.1
Fight #7 Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Ricardo Arona*
Sakuraba came out aggressive, throwing kicks and punch combinations, but no real damage was done. Arona utilized his strength to control Saku on the ground and avoid any submission attempts. Saku was cut in the early part of rd2, and Arona continued to pound him when on the ground. Eventually Saku's eyes swelled nearly shut and the fight had to be stopped.
Result: Arona wins via tko (cut/eyes shut) rd.2
Fight #8 Wanderlei Silva vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura*
Silva controlled the fight as many expected. Flurries of punches, knees, kicks, and gnp overwhelmed Nakamura for most of the fight. Ref steps in and stops the fight in first round from gnp.
Result: Silva wins via tko (ref) rd.1
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