the paulista Thiago Bodão secured the third spot among middleweights in the TUF Brazil semifinals. In the eighth episode, shown this Sunday (13), the fighter from the Vitor belfort fought a very tough fight against Francisco massaranduba, and after each athlete wins a round, the team representative Wanderlei Silva he was unable to return for the tiebreaker round. As a result, Bodão took the fight by withdrawal. With the result, Belfort's team opens 6-1 on the scoreboard against Wand's team.
Thiago Bodão (photo) wins massaranduba and is the third semi-finalist among TUF Brazil middleweights
the episode
The eighth episode of TUF Brasil started with remnants of the previous program. Right at the beginning of this edition, Wanderlei Silva, who had the right to choose the duel between the middleweights, asked to speak and mentioned that the choice of Vitor belfort in the last episode it was wrong to marry the fight between friends Ron Jason and Gasparzinho. Vitor responded to the questions, and, after a quick reckoning, Wand chose massaranduba to represent your team and measure forces against Thiago Bodão, from Vitor’s team.
Before the fight, unlike other clashes, the athletes exchanged a lot of praise and promised to put on an exciting fight. Fact that really happened!
The fight
The duel started off quite studied, with both athletes measuring the distance and not entering the range of action. Bodão tried to measure the distance with low kicks, while massaranduba he responded with powerful direct encounters.
In one of these blows, Thiago felt “Massa” punch him and was trapped against the bars. At this point, the duel spent a lot of time in the clinch, with the team's representative Wanderlei Silva taking a small advantage.
In the second round, the duel followed the same steps as the first. After a powerful straight left, massaranduba takes down Bodão and applies several blows from above, with punches and elbows. However, halfway through the round, Thiago manages to push his opponent and resume the fight on his feet.
At this moment, the fight is in the clinch, but this time Bodão applied knees to the body of massaranduba, who seemed to feel the blows.
But the moment that defined the fate of the round came next. When trying to apply a takedown, the representative of Wand's team fell underneath and suffered a harsh punishment from half guard, from where Bodão punished his opponent with several punches.
At the end of 10 minutes of duel, the referees decreed that a third round should take place to break the tie. However, very exhausted, massaranduba He tried to stand up, but he couldn't.
When the opponent fell to the ground, one of TUF's most illustrious moments happened. With massaranduba On the ground, exhausted, Bodão shouted words of encouragement to his opponent: “Get up, let's fight. You are here for your family…. Strength".
Despite the opponent's encouragement, massaranduba he was unable to get up and Bodão was declared the winner.
At the end of the confrontation, in a noble moment, the representatives of the Vitor belfort they also erected the photo of Francisco massaranduba to the “hall” of winners.
With Bodão's classification, the Vitor belfort puts the third middleweight in the semifinals. In addition to Thiago, they are qualified Cezar Mutant e Daniel sarafian.
The last place in the semi-finals will be played between Serginho Moraes, by the team of Vitor belfort, and Lead Foot, by the team of Wanderlei Silva
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