Patrick Cote vs. Ricardo Almeida is up.
Miguel Torres shown. No reaction.
Almeida jumped in the air to get a guillotine and essentially pulled guard to get it to the ground. Cote is in the deep water right now. Cote escaped and wants to box. Almeida tried a knee but missed. Almeida moved in for a takedown. Almeida finally got the takedown. Almeida doing some ground and pound. Some punches got through late to take the round 10-9.
Almeida pulled guard again after failing on a takedown. Cote got up. Cote starting to box. Interesting that there was some booing tonight, but all of it came during stand-ups. Even when action was slow on the ground people were fine with it. Almeida tried a guillotine but Cote escaped. Cote decked him as time ran out. Probably spelled he difference in a dull round so it's 19-19.
Cote hit Cote with a low kick 90 seconds into a nothing happening round. This is one of those matches where it doesn't matter who won, because both are coming out the worst. Cote did another low kick. Crowd actually could be turning on it worse then they were. Another low kick by Cote. Almeida scored with a punch and a second while Cote back with a low kick. Fight comes down to this last minute. Who wants it more. Or less. Almeida got the takedown. He's got side control. Now Cote is on top. I don't know how to score this. Really was close but I've got 29-28 Cote.
Scores were 29-28, 28-29, 29-28 for Cote. Cote was booed after but it still appeared 80% of the crowd thought he won as when the judge for Almeida was announced, people were pretty darn mad.  |