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Liveblog: ROC 27 Part 6
Bellmore Kickboxing's Gian Villante and Team Oliveira's Marcelo Pereira are in the cage now. Pereira comes out and wobbles Villante with a punch, but when he leaps in with a kick Villante catches him in mid-air and throws him down. They then battle a bit on the feet and on the ground, the Bellmore Kickboxing star landing more and landing harder. But Villante ends it with a right cross with one second left in the round, Pereira dropping like a sack of Brazilian potatoes. Pellegrino MMA up-and-comer Jeff Lentz and Team Combat vet Anthony Morrison are up next, vying for the ROC featherweight belt. Wow. Morrison just had the performance of his career. Executing the perfect game plan, he continuously got Lentz down and pounded on him, dodging Lentz's subs and unorthodox strikes along the way. Morrison takes the unanimous decision and the championship. Last bout of the evening and it's Advanced Martial Arts superstar Ricardo Romero against Team Link's Silmar Rodrigo. An interesting aside about Rodrigo... Anyway, Rodrigo manages a couple takedowns, but when they're back on their feet Romero clips him with a left and follows it up with punishment on the ground. With only 4 seconds left Romero gets the tap out with a bent armlock - and the ROC heavyweight title.
Liveblog: ROC 27 Part 5
Uriah Hall of TSMMA vs. Mitch Whitesel is the next bout, and it's the classic striker vs. wrestler pairing - which means for most of the first round the two don't engage, each wary of the other. Aside from two failed takedown attempts, Whitesel spends all of Round 2 literally running away. The foot race continues in the third, but thankfully Hall catches him and TKOs the now turtled sprinter. Yeesh. Up next: Justin Haskins of Pellegrino MMA against RABJJ stalwart Dante Rivera. Rivera is what you'd call an "old school veteran and big F-ing hero" around these parts, and though Haskins utlizes superior wrestling to get him down and control him for Round 1 and most of Round 2, when Rivera scores a takedown of his own and nails the rear naked choke with just 9 seconds left, it's like the Germans have surrendered and WWII is over. In fact, the Garv is throwing confetti into the cage.
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