00:00to a good fight here.
00:01I hope that the odds aren't too stacked against him.
00:04It's time to go to the G-Man in the ring.
00:05Ladies and gentlemen, our second quarterfinal match
00:07pits two great champions.
00:09Give them a warm Denver welcome
00:12fighting out of the red quarter
00:13from Las Vegas, Nevada.
00:17Fourth degree black belt in Shorenji Rue Karate.
00:20The winner of dozens of National Karate Championships
00:23and the former Nevada State Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion
00:28six-foot and 210-pound Johnny Rhodes.
00:37Rhodes.
00:41And ladies and gentlemen,
00:42we have an alternate for the second quarterfinal match.
00:45He replaces Frack Hamaker,
00:47who withdrew with an arm injury.
00:50This gentleman is a fifth-degree black belt
00:52in the art of Shorenji Riematsu Moran Kempo.
00:56Fighting out of the blue corner,
00:58he comes from Minnesota,
01:00six-foot and 180 pounds.
01:02Give it warm.
01:03Denver welcome to Fred Eddish.
01:08Eddish.
01:11Sometimes these last-minute entrants
01:12can give you a tough time.
01:13Sometimes they can be unorthodox,
01:15and we'll see what happens here.
01:17Hey, Jim, Fred Eddish, very fortunate,
01:19comes into this tournament in the quarterfinals.
01:22Maybe.
01:24I know what you're saying.
01:25We're getting mighty close.
01:26There's a zone there that they have to contend with,
01:28and that's that distance just between the fighters
01:30before they make the initial move.
01:32That was Johnny,
01:33the one who initiated the ground play last time,
01:35the grapple.
01:36We may see some techniques here.
01:38May not go to the ground yet.
01:39If you get the close-up,
01:40you can see Johnny's eyes.
01:42So intense.
01:43That straight right hand is going to come into play here.
01:47You'll see counter-punching from Johnny Rhodes.
01:51There it is.
01:53That straight right hand.
01:57He'll let him get up and try to kick him.
01:59Here we go.
01:59So Fred's got to get up.
02:00Well, he'll try to get up,
02:01but he should put his left hand behind him
02:03and scoot up with his left leg.
02:06You shouldn't get up facing forwards.
02:08You should get up going backwards
02:09so you can protect yourself
02:10if the guy comes in.
02:11The only man I've seen get up from this position
02:12was Jason DeLucian, the preliminary.
02:14Yes, he did it correctly.
02:15Oh, whoa.
02:16That punch, that punch by Johnny Rhodes
02:19has opened up a cut on Fred Eddish
02:22like I've never seen one punch do.
02:23Yes, this fight's over.
02:30It's a matter of time here.
02:32And again, it looks a lot worse than it is.
02:34What guts on Fred Eddish?
02:35He has a cut just above his eye.
02:38Still.
02:44Does Johnny want to avoid getting down with him?
02:46Well, I think the corner should just recognize
02:49what's going on here.
02:50That's one half minutes old.
02:51Yeah, it's the will.
02:51He's pointing to his eye.
02:52It's the will of the fighter.
02:53There's no question.
02:54You see a big mouse up there above the eye.
03:00I'll tell you, I think Johnny showed some empathy again
03:02in his early fight against Levicki.
03:04He's showing it here.
03:05It's very difficult for him to see.
03:06That's why he keeps shaking his head.
03:08Now, is Rhodes seeing openings
03:09but deciding not to go in?
03:10Well, it's very difficult.
03:11He doesn't know ground grappling,
03:12so if someone is on the ground
03:14and they're kicking at you like that,
03:15it's fine.
03:15You cover up, you grab the leg,
03:17and you go for a mounted position.
03:22Now he has all the leverage to punch.
03:25If he knew the choke, he'd go for the choke here.
03:31He's got his left hand in place.
03:34His right arm should just go right behind the head
03:35now to choke him out.
03:36Can't say enough about Fred Adich
03:37taking this kind of pain.
03:39Yes, yes.
03:40It's very difficult for him to see.
03:41The bad cuts are above the eye.
03:43You know, Ben, it's amazing
03:44that they would not learn those choke points.
03:46I know, isn't it?
03:47It really is.
03:47He's right there.
03:48I agree with you.
03:49I mean, I could have...
03:50Here he goes here.
03:51He's got him in his left hand in place.
03:52He can choke him out with one arm, by the way.
03:53He'll probably tap now
03:54because one arm is all it takes.
03:57He just has to close that together.
03:59He'll...
03:59And Fred's energy really seems sucked out of this pool.
04:02Yeah, definitely.
04:05And he knocked out his mouthpiece.
04:07He's done everything except tap out.
04:09Yeah, if he rolls over on his stomach,
04:10then it's really going to close that choke into a...
04:12How do you get out?
04:13Ben, how do you break this?
04:14Well, you just protect your neck.
04:15You just reach up, shoot one hand
04:17underneath the elbow so that you...
04:18It takes both sides of the neck to be choked out.
04:20So the other...
04:23Johnny doesn't...
04:24Isn't closing the choke.
04:26It's over.
04:27Again, it's over.
04:28Johnny Rose truly impressing everyone here.
04:32That was very impressive.
04:34Oh, yeah.
04:34That was very impressive to come back
04:35after that long fight like that
04:36and do what he did.
04:37Well, I think it was,
04:38but if you look at the size of this gentleman...
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