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00:00Here in the middleweight division, it is our co-mate event of the evening as the undefeated Kazakh
00:05Sadrin Akhmetov takes on the Atlanta native in Antonio Todd.
00:12TJ DeSantis along with Pearl Gonzalez, Doug Fisher here as well.
00:15We are inside the Chumash Casino Resort in beautiful Santa Ynez, California.
00:20It is a site of Tom Loeffler's and 360 Promotions Hollywood Fight Nights.
00:27You ready?
00:28Are you ready?
00:30Here we go, round one of our co-mate event underway.
00:34Akhmetov in the red, Antonio Todd in the black.
00:39And immediately you can see the size difference between these two gentlemen.
00:43Not exactly the normal weight class we can expect Akhmetov to continue his career in.
00:49He's probably going to drop back down,
00:50but he's got to overcome a much taller opponent tonight in Antonio Todd.
00:55Yes, he does.
00:56But he's doing a great job of closing the distance,
00:58putting his weight and his body on his opponent, feeling his opponent.
01:03Probably testing the strength and just seeing what the body feels like of his opponent.
01:08But Todd has beautiful ones and twos as we can see here.
01:12They're straight down the middle.
01:13They're nice and fast.
01:15He's got some flashy shorts too.
01:18You mentioned Todd, a student of the boxing game.
01:20He likes to watch a lot of old fights.
01:22But he said he also likes to watch, you know, his opponent.
01:25And he said he did a lot of study of Akhmetov
01:28and believes that he knows the tendencies that Akhmetov, you know, has.
01:32And he feels he can exploit them.
01:34Yes, he's doing a great job right now of staying long
01:37and finding his target right down, right down the middle here.
01:41But Sodrigan is doing a good job of putting pressure and it's not too rushed.
01:46He's not utilizing a lot of energy here.
01:48He's very efficient in his energy output and slowly working his way inside
01:54and finding his, his positions.
01:57Todd throwing that really long jab out there.
02:01Halfway point here, round number one.
02:06Nice left hook around the guard of Sodrigan.
02:11Oh, wow.
02:13Getting busy here early is Todd.
02:15Yes, he's doing a great job of establishing his range,
02:18maintaining his range, managing his range in this moment.
02:22And Sodrigan isn't pressing forward like that.
02:26Oh, oh, my goodness.
02:28Todd in huge trouble.
02:30Wow.
02:31And he's trying to get back up on wobbly legs.
02:35Referee laying in the count.
02:36A huge statement early by the Kazakh in Akhmetov.
02:40Goodness.
02:41Akhmetov spills the blood, getting after it.
02:45As we continue action here, this opening round.
02:48Let's see if he can survive this.
02:50With Sodrigan all over Todd right now.
02:53Oh, those shots are big.
02:55You only get one chance to make a first impression in Akhmetov,
02:59making a count here in his U.S. debut.
03:01Goodness, these hooks are intense.
03:03Referee taking a look.
03:04It is done!
03:06Sodrigan and Akhmetov victorious tonight in his U.S. debut.
03:10Now 14-0 as he picks up the 12th knockout victory of his career.
03:16Made short work tonight in his first fight ever in the United States.
03:20Holy moly.
03:22Well, I asked you, Pearl, how he was going to overcome the reach of Antonio Todd.
03:26We got our answer.
03:27He's going to hit him in the face and knock him out.
03:30That was incredible.
03:31This man is powerful.
03:35A dejected Antonio Todd, unable to weather an early storm
03:40from the soldier of Q, Sodrigan Akhmetov.
03:44Yeah, anytime this young man fights, I'm tuning in.
03:47Absolutely.
03:48He did such a fantastic job of dealing with those short,
03:52peppering shots that can get annoying, that can get frustrating.
03:55And as soon as he found his opening, he took full advantage of that.
04:01Take a look at the end of this fight.
04:03Pearl, walk us through.
04:04Oh my goodness, it was the hooks.
04:06It was all these overhand rights and around the guard, just powerful.
04:11Look at this man.
04:12Big shots around the guard, through the guard, under the guard.
04:15And Todd did not have an answer.
04:18The power was on full display tonight of Sodrigan Akhmetov.
04:23It's hard to find an answer when you don't know where you are.
04:25And I think Antonio Todd had to reset after getting dropped because the power on display
04:31by the much smaller of the two men, Akhmetov.
04:34He might move down a way, but he's a heavy handed problem for anyone standing in his way.
04:39Heavy handed, he's ferocious, he's aggressive, he's intelligent.
04:45Incredible performance tonight from Akhmetov.
04:48I said you only get one opportunity to make a first impression.
04:52And the first impression, it was a good one here in his US debut.
04:56Akhmetov, again, someone to keep your eye on.
04:58And, you know, he wanted to make his country proud after maybe a less than stellar Olympic
05:02showing.
05:03Well, there's no medals here tonight, but that's a gold medal performance.
05:07Absolutely.
05:08He put everybody on alert tonight with this performance.
05:13And that's exactly what you want to do.
05:14A lot of hype around him comes from a manager who's dealt with Triple G.
05:19And, you know, we sometimes don't know what a fighter brings when they fought internationally
05:24and haven't fought stateside.
05:25Well, so far, so good here at his US debut.
05:28Sodrigan Akhmetov, I mean, he's a problem and I can't wait to have him come back and
05:34see if anyone can solve that problem, because that was one way traffic.
05:38One way traffic.
05:39I mean, he barely he barely started a sweat.
05:44Incredible performance here from Sodrigan Akhmetov.
05:50Not even breathing hard, TJ.
05:53I mean, it was a quick night of work.
05:55You don't get paid by the hour.
05:56And yeah, he he knew what he wanted.
06:00He came out, got it done and did so in a very big way.
06:03All right.
06:04To make this one official, we go to Mapparino.
06:08Ladies and gentlemen, referee Ivan Guyana has called a stop to the contest at two minutes,
06:1434 seconds in the very first round.
06:16Declaring the winner by knockout, Sodrigan S.O.Q. Akhmetov.
06:28Sodrigan Akhmetov.
06:30Now 14-0, picking up the 12th knockout victory of his career.
06:37Solid stuff.
06:39You couldn't draw it up any better than that, Pearl.
06:41It was a beautiful performance.
06:42It's exactly what you want.
06:43That's the statement you want to make on a new promotion.
06:46You're debuting in a new.