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Featherweights kick off festivities in France, where the unbeaten Fontes awaits the once-beaten Adjoudj at 145 pounds. Christophe Chapuis serves as the third man in the cage. Fontes marches forward with heavy pressure, eats a glancing spinning backfist and wanders into the clinch. Adjoudj works behind him and hammers his legs with knees, then drags him to a kneeling position along the fence. Fontes stays calm.
Adjoudj steps into a clean right hook and sends his dazed opponent somersaulting backwards. More punches follow before Chapuis rushes in to call it offLadd looks to rebound from a Nov. 24 decision defeat to two-time Olympic gold medalist Kayla Harrison, as she takes on Shakalova in a women’s featherweight affair. The 26-year-old Shakalova has won six fights in a row. Chapuis once again draws the officiating assignment.
Hands on hips, Shakalova emerges for Round 2 visibly fatigued. Still, she lets her hands go. Ladd marches forward, throws punches in combination and dodges return fire. She presses Shakalova into the fence, where she looks to further drain the Ukrainian’s gas tank. They reset and circle one another. Pace has definitely slowed. Shakalova fires a few right hands from the collar tie, then reverses course. Ladd sprawls on a takedown attempt but allows Shakalova to turn her into the fence.
It looks like Ladd’s fight to loss as they head out for third round. Damage beginning to accumulate on Shakalova’s face. Ladd marches forward behind punches and immediately sprawls on a takedown. Shakalova resets, shoots on a double-leg and completes the takedown. She works behind the scrambling Ladd in a bid to keep her grounded, but the Californian gets back to her feet. Ladd executes a double-leg takedown of her own, corrals the legs and progresses toward the back.
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