The controversial Russian amateur MMA organization, ‘Arrows’ has a knack for putting together crazy fights, and that includes this match-up, which provided an extreme example of youth vs. experience.
In one corner stood a 15 year-old schoolboy, who looked remarkably calm and composed given that he was about go up against a 32 year-old man who was also a couple of inches taller than him and had a 15kg weight advantage.
Despite the odds appearing to be stacked against him, the boy in the black shorts showed no fear as the fight began, and in fact actually showed bad sportsmanship as he tapped gloves with his opponent, while simultaneously launching a kick at him.
His opponent in the green shorts unloaded a few punches, but the teenager showed he knew what he was doing by closing the distance and clinching up, before landing a nicely executed takedown.
The older fighter countered that with a guillotine choke submission from his back, but the teenager was able to scramble to side control, which neutralized the threat of being tapped or choked out.
The fight was briefly stopped shortly afterwards due to the teen landing an illegal knee to his grounded opponent, but they were soon back at it, trading punches on the feet.
The teenager now had a bloodied nose, but he proved he was still in the fight when he briefly dropped his opponent with a sneaky uppercut.
Not long afterwards the youth was able to land a right hook and then a stinging left as his opponent rebounded off the ropes, which momentarily stopped him in his tracks.
That seemed to take some of the fight out of his opponent, who was now also bloodied and looked to be running out of gas as he backed up from his more youthful adversary.
Shaking out his own tiring arms, the teen then surged forward with another flurry of punches that dropped his opponent, just as the referee was rushing in to award him a TKO victory.
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So, it all worked out in the end, but even though he proved he could handle himself, it still seems like a bad idea to have a youngster fighting grown men like this.
