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00:00Thank you very much!
00:06Drikus has got to be very careful. He almost jumps whenever he decides to enter.
00:10And Assange will pick up on that as the fight goes on.
00:15Good left hand offering by Duplessis after Iziza landed to the body.
00:23Iziza threw a body kick earlier that landed real clean on Duplessis.
00:28Now the one thing Iziza can't count on is that Duplessis will fight at this pace the entire time.
00:39That kick right there, he's got such a good left kick.
00:43He doesn't throw his right one a lot, but that left one he sets up really well.
00:47It's going to be very important for him to kick.
00:50Oh, nice right hand!
00:51Yeah, that's a good right hand from Duplessis and then back to work with the left kick!
00:56Now Assange shakes off that attack from Duplessis, but again attacking that lead leg.
01:02Duplessis does a good job of fighting from both stances too.
01:05He switches really good between south point to pitch.
01:10And that's what we haven't seen people able to do a lot with Iziza.
01:14Duplessis able to match that energy with the stance switch.
01:19Duplessis so good at raising that guard and keeping it tight.
01:24Even dating to his UFC debut, nice right hand from the champion.
01:30That is a fast kick.
01:31That kick is lighting him, he's so good with it.
01:33And he hides it because of the stance switch.
01:36Oh, nice final shot by the champion.
01:38Beautiful shot.
01:40You can see Iziza doing a lot of work early to the body at Duplessis, he's very smart.
01:48Champion advances late in the round, a round in which both men had their moments.
01:53What a round.
01:59Duplessis smiling in the ring.
02:01That's a good round.
02:02That was a good round.
02:03That was a really good round.
02:24He's going to be very naked.
02:27He's slippery.
02:31He looks 100%.
02:54That too.
02:56Wait, somebody's got to tell him that he's got to talk to us.
02:59Right.
03:00Please tell me what he said.
03:02Well, if memory serves, they've spoken a lot of English in that corner in the past, but not tonight.
03:09Alright, here we go, round two.
03:10Duplessis in green, Adesanya in black.
03:16That's the second one of those kicks from Adesanya.
03:18Very hard kick and that heavy.
03:20Got an immediate stance switch.
03:22Clusters Duplessis to land that.
03:26Nice.
03:27I mean, the power.
03:28You see the power in his punches on that combo.
03:33Turning up now, these guys.
03:35Yep, starting to pick up a little bit.
03:37That was a very measured round one and very close.
03:42Adesanya hasn't missed when he has attacked the body.
03:45Seems like the scorecards from the media are assembled on both sides after round one.
03:51Yeah, of course.
03:52It's hard to really get a gauge.
03:53Oh!
03:54Beautiful timing.
03:55Beautiful level change in timing, but Izzy seems to be getting right back up.
03:58He's got that wizard deep.
03:59Let's see if he can defend.
04:01Beautiful defense so far.
04:04He's not out of trouble yet.
04:07Great job by Drake.
04:08It's great timing on that takedown.
04:10Now, Izzy's trying to get back to his feet.
04:12Oh, he gets the hook in right to the choke immediately.
04:15Misses the style expected Duplessis to fight right here.
04:18Well, this is smart by Duplessis.
04:20Izzy, when he went to the choke, Izzy has to go back to his back
04:23and really abandon himself trying to get up.
04:27And now Drake has got that wrist caught on the opposite side.
04:31The hand control is key.
04:34The hand control from Duplessis is where he's getting the control so well.
04:39Duplessis trying to find his way under the chin here in round two.
04:43Got high.
04:44Throwing over that hook.
04:46Great job by Izzy.
04:47He's shifting and clearing that leg.
04:51That's big for Adesanya here.
04:52Early round two.
04:53Looked like a groin shot there.
04:55Mark Goddard says fight on.
04:58Nice elbow.
05:05A lot of energy expended there.
05:07Now, here's the question.
05:08Adesanya now seems to be picking up the pace.
05:11How much did Drake just use in that grappling change?
05:15Nice uppercut by Adesanya.
05:24Nice body work by Adesanya there.
05:26Oh!
05:28Gets on the shot.
05:30Wow.
05:32What a fight.
05:33And now Duplessis working right in front of his corner.
05:36Adesanya posts.
05:38Warning there from Mark Goddard after what appeared to be a fence grab.
05:41I missed it.
05:45It is so hard to hold down Adesanya.
05:47Yeah, it's hard to hold him down.
05:48It really is.
05:49He's still on his way up.
05:51But that's why these kickboxers have gotten so much better.
05:55Because even though you take them down,
05:57they do a good job of getting back to their feet.
06:01But Drake is just doing exactly what he's doing.
06:03Long wrestling exchanges to try to wear him down.
06:09Just like this.
06:10This is exactly what you've got to do.
06:11You've got to put two together.
06:12You can't stop at one takedown on Izzy.
06:14He'll always defend the first one.
06:16But when you put two and three movements together,
06:18it's a little harder for him to defend.
06:21So, no offensive wrestling from Duplessis in round one.
06:24He has shot five times here in round two.
06:27So, it's a little harder for him to defend.
06:29Duplessis in round one.
06:30He has shot five times here in round two.
06:33Secured two takedowns on those attempts.
06:42Izzy's got to attack the hands if he wants to get away from Duplessis.
06:46He's turning, but he's allowing Duplessis to keep his hands locked.
06:49He's got to attack the hands.
06:50That was nice.
06:51Yeah, he's tripping well.
06:52He's attacking the balance of Izzy
06:54so that Izzy can't get his feet underneath him.
06:57Look at Izzy's hands though.
06:58He's got two hands free.
06:59He's got to be attacking the lock of Duplessis.
07:02And what could serve him well
07:03is with the right hand attacking the front of the fingers of Duplessis.
07:10Three takedowns now in this round for Duplessis.
07:12Adesanya is upright with under a minute to go.
07:16DNEP wants to keep challenging
07:19the balance of Stylebender here up against the fence.
07:22Tripping in.
07:23Taking him, putting him on his hands over and over.
07:26Nice left hands by Duplessis.
07:28Again, this man all offense all the time.
07:39It looked like Izzy was going to try to use that Kimura.
07:41That Kimura is enough of a threat
07:43that Duplessis abandoned the back control
07:46and went back to the chest lock
07:47where Izzy used his wisdom to almost get up.
07:50But Duplessis right back on that leg.
07:57You could see in this round too, Dom,
07:59Izzy was starting to find the range and find his strikes.
08:03And that's when Duplessis turned this into a wrestling match
08:05which really served him well to end this round.
08:07Genius. Genius.
08:09All right, the South Africans wrestling leads the dance in round two.
08:12Round two.
08:43Feeling?
08:45Listen to me.
08:47Flow, flow, heat.
08:48Flow, flow, heat.
08:49Listen to me.
08:50Give me the water.
08:54If you have him against the cage,
08:57break his back leg first.
08:59Breathe.
09:00Right here you see Duplessis with a beautiful double leg takedown.
09:03Erisanya immediately wrestles the wizard.
09:06Drikus attacks a rear naked choke.
09:09Erisanya then has to roll back to his back to get out of it.
09:12And at the end of the round,
09:13it was Drikus with the back control just landing big left hands.
09:17That was a good round for the champion.
09:20All right, here we go.
09:21Third round of a possible five to decide the UFC middleweight title.
09:28There's that body shot from Erisanya.
09:35That last part of the round got a little bit too wild
09:40to serve Erisanya.
09:42All that rushing and exchanging is better for Drikus
09:46because then Drikus can get to his wrestling.
09:53Erisanya splits the guard there with a left hand.
09:58Duplessis gets his right through.
10:07I feel like Drikus might even sleep with his hands up here,
10:09right covering his face, I mean, just instinctively,
10:12always raising that guard.
10:14He's very responsible with his hands.
10:16He doesn't drop them.
10:18Ooh!
10:19And that's why you see Izzy go to the body with the kicks
10:22and the liver shots like that.
10:23Because when the hands are up, that leaves the body open.
10:26That'll serve Izzy well to keep digging to the body
10:29with the punches or the kicks
10:30so that then, naturally, Drikus' hands will start to go down
10:34if you start to damage him at the midsection.
10:37Head kick partially got home for Erisanya.
10:39Feels like that body shot got Duplessis' attention.
10:49Whoever drives the forward pressure
10:51seems to win the exchanges on the feet.
10:53It's whoever moves forward the most
10:55tends to win the round on the striking.
10:59And right now, Erisanya's got Drikus going backwards.
11:02Drikus has got to find a way to keep going forward again
11:04so that then he can level change
11:05and try to get to a takedown.
11:07Nice kick there by Duplessis,
11:08but perhaps some energy conservation out of him here
11:11early round three.
11:14I love how Izzy isn't moving straight.
11:17He never moves in straight lines backwards.
11:19He's always curling,
11:20and that curl keeps Duplessis from being able to hit his boosts,
11:24his blitzes that he likes so much because he's curling.
11:27Erisanya's doing a really good job
11:29of investing in the body right now.
11:3113 body shots,
11:32and he hasn't missed when he's thrown there yet.
11:34That was a nice right hand by DDP there.
11:36Yep, it sure was.
11:42Good right hand from the champion.
11:46Oh!
11:47Beautiful elbow.
11:48Didn't see that coming at all.
11:51Nasty elbow from Erisanya.
11:53Duplessis with a reset.
11:56Off with left hand now from the champ.
11:58Back and forth we go.
11:59That was a nice left.
12:00Oh, Drikus hit him hard there.
12:01Yeah, that one was very heavy.
12:03Very heavy.
12:04He's trying another spin elbow and got caught with the left hook.
12:07Oh, another one!
12:08Oh!
12:09Big shot by the champ.
12:11Now a reset from Erisanya,
12:13and Duplessis goes high.
12:22You can see the power of DDP when he throws.
12:24He must hit so hard.
12:25Yeah, you can see it.
12:28He really is like a dog on a boat.
12:30He shoots you straight down.
12:31And he's dragging him across the octagon.
12:35Oh, nice right hand.
12:36Oh, big right hand.
12:42Oh!
12:43That was a trip.
12:44Yeah, it looked like it.
12:45I think he stepped on his foot even, to be honest.
12:47That happens with Southpaw Convention.
12:49Yep, very often.
12:50And these guys are both switching constantly.
12:52Right hand connection by Erisanya.
12:54Duplessis able to land on the counter.
12:56Nice left hook from DDP.
12:58And it looks like they're banking a little tighter,
13:00so they're not moving as much.
13:02They're almost making a deal.
13:04Let's fight now.
13:05Yeah.
13:06Offense for us.
13:07Duplessis a little bit labored with that previous advancement.
13:10Coming up on a minute to go.
13:11Round three.
13:16And the stance switch from both guys
13:18is keeping both of them guessing.
13:21Nice weapon choice there by Duplessis.
13:24Nice uppercut.
13:29These guys are so evenly matched.
13:32This is a really good fight, man.
13:38It's so amazing to watch two completely different styles
13:41and just be that even.
13:44Nice hook.
13:46Look at that.
13:47Ishii throws the perfect uppercut.
13:48Drik is in lunges and lands two of his own.
13:52Both men have landed significantly in round three,
13:54but on the numbers, a decided edge for the challenger.
13:59And he lunges into those shots,
14:01and they're technically not balanced,
14:03but he explodes so hard and lands often.
14:05He leaves his feet whenever he tries to throw a jab.
14:09And Duplessis staying committed to the leg kicks as well.
14:12He's landed 16 of those.
14:18Championship rounds forthcoming.
14:22Give me a lot of breathes.
14:24Breathe.
14:25Just breathe.
14:28How are you feeling?
14:31Just breathe.
14:32Just give me breathing.
14:34He's done.
14:35He's tired.
14:36We're going to have to move him.
14:38Forward is all that works.
14:40He's messed up when he moves back.
14:43Push, push, steal.
14:45Push, push, steal.
14:47Push, push, steal.
14:49Push, push, steal.
14:52You ready?
14:53You ready?
14:54One time.
14:56You've got to clip this guy down.
14:58You've got to break him down.