UFC 264 Results: Sean O'Malley vs. Kris Moutinho play-by-play, live blog
Sean O’Malley vs. Kris Moutinho is set to open up the UFC 264 main card.
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Moutinho rushes forward and starts throwing hands. O’Malley evades, slides out to the side. He’s settling into the fight already and establishing a safe fighting range. O’Malley pokes Moutinho’s body with a front kick. Moutinho blitzes again but misses everything. O’Malley moving well and keeps sliding out to the left toward Moutinho’s lead right hand. Moutinho now targeting O’Malley’s legs and lands two low kicks. Another one. This could be the key to slowing O’Malley down and disabling the evasive movement. O’Malley lands a strong right high kick. O’Malley landing clean but Moutinho lands a punch of his own. He’s here to fight and he’s taking it to O’Malley.
Two minutes have passed and the pace remains high. Moutinho rushes again and now walks into a combination of punches form O’Malley. O’Malley’s feeling it and lands a strong combination of punches before missing with a spinning wheel kick. Moutinho is taking all of these punches and somehow still marching forward. Masterclass from O’Malley so far as he sticks out the jab and moves. Moutinho with more low kicks but then he eats another punch to the head. Tough debut fight for Moutinho as expected here and it’s really been quite the show from O’Malley. Moutinho blitzes and walks into an O’Malley hook. Another low kick lands. Moutinho’s feeling it now and starts talking to O’Malley. He’s trying to move his head but O’Malley’s way too fast and is tagging him. He lands a series of unanswered punches and Moutinho’s continuing to come forward. Five seconds remaining in the round and O’Malley drops Moutinho before chasing after him for the finish. He’s stumbling around. He won’t have long to recover before the next round.
The Body Lock scores round one for O’Malley (10-8)
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