It's Showtime 2011 Lyon

Round 4

Legs tangle. Grigorian down. Both tired. They now hack and slash, taking turns rather than exchanging.

Round 5

They touch gloves, still sucking air. Lidon scores with hooks and knees to the chin. He's only getting slightly outhustled now as Grigorian's pace has slowed. They both keep throwing until the bell.

Lidon should have shaded it. It could be a draw. With the knockdown, there really isn't a case for Grigorian winning (he didn't win 4 rounds).

 

...and the new (first ever) 73kg champion of It's Showtime -

Yohan Lidon!

 

Here come the big boys.

Igor Mihaljevic vs. Tyrone Spong

Spong is the truth. This Croatian better be on his toes if he's to make it out of the opening minute.

 

Round 1

Hard step-through knees and right hands by Spong. Mihaljevic backs off and looks to grab. Spong drops him with what looked like a quick left uppercut to the sternum. Another low-leaning left hook by Spong and a series of kicks. Mihaljevic is smothered into a corner and knees between the man-boobs in that same spot. He takes most of a standing 8 count in considerable pain. Spong smashes him into the ropes and knees him in the face - OUT COLD.

Mihaljevic sits up, trying to blink the blur out of his vision and clearly humiliated.

That wasn't even 80% effort from Spong.

 

The main event is next.

This should be a mismatch as well, honestly.

Gregory Tony is a better kickboxer than he is a boxer, but he's not on Badr Hari's level.

Besides, he just got KTFO by Mike Perez a week ago in the boxing ring.

 

The referee goes over the no-nos under IS rules:

No headbutts, spinning backfists, elbows, or excessive clinching.

 

Round 1

First kick by Hari. Tony gets jabbed in the face and takes an involuntary step back. A couple of acrobatic up-kicks by Tony. Sloppy flurry of punches from Tony. Hari is staying tight and high with his guard, watchig and waiting. Hard jab to the body knocks Tony back a few steps. Hari loads up on a big right hand and leaves his own torso open for a slicing kick from the side. Hari knocks him down by the ropes with a hammer like right hand. Tony gets up but is cautious. Hard jab to the body by Hari gets Tony to drop his hands and he himself is then dropped by a looping right. Tony sprints across the ring with a dragon kick aimed at Hari's face but doesn't connect. Wild flurrying from Tony, falling out of balance all over the place several times. No knockdowns ruled. Hari is countering a bit, but not landing anything too clean as Tony's movement is just so wild. Finally he does send him down with a punch. Tony is TKO'ed under the 3 knockdown rule and leans against the top rope in disappointment, burying his face into it.