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Chapter 424 - 390: Formidable Opponents

Chapter 424: Chapter 390: Formidable Opponents

In the third round, it was still 2VS2.

This time, the captain of the Brazil Team, Silvar, took the stage himself. His popularity in UFC was among the top and equally high in the combat sports realm. His appearance immediately caused a sensation in the entire venue.

This round featured middleweight and heavyweight partners. Brazil Team’s middleweight was Silvar, who possessed an absolute advantage, but their heavyweight contestant was far less skilled, making it difficult to win against the British Team. Therefore, with the strategy of pairing their strongest, Silvar, with a weaker heavyweight contestant, they aimed to claim these two points.

As soon as the match began, the Brazil Team took the initiative to charge, but it wasn’t heavyweight against heavyweight or middleweight against middleweight. Instead, Silvar took on the British Team’s heavyweight contestant, while his own heavyweight partner faced the British middleweight.

This also showed Brazil Team’s confidence in Silvar; a middleweight contestant stepping up a division to fight a heavyweight, and they weren’t worried about Silvar losing but believed that he could dominate his opponent!

Soon after the match started, the situation on the field became clear: Silvar, with his speed in movement and strikes, far surpassing his opponent, played with his adversary with ease while ensuring they couldn’t get away. Whenever there was an attempt to escape, he would immediately launch a ferocious attack to push the opponent back. If the opponent counter-attacked, he would start dodging effortlessly.

On the other side, the Brazil Team’s heavyweight contestant was facing the British middleweight and had an equally easy time. His weight advantage crushed an entire division; his resistance to hits and power were much stronger, and he quickly got the British contestant pinned to the ground.

By the third minute, the British Team’s middleweight contestant was knocked out, turning the fight into a two-on-one.

However, Silvar shouted loudly on the field, astonishingly telling his teammate not to intervene as he wanted to challenge the opponent one-on-one!

The scene immediately sent the entire audience into a frenzy. Middleweight versus heavyweight had only been seen from Wu Li and Li San from the Hua Country Team. Now Silvar was ready to replay the scenario of lighter versus heavier.

On the field, Silvar began his show, fighting aggressively despite his lesser strength.

"How does it feel?"

In the Hua Country Team’s locker room, Wu Li asked Li San.

Li San, watching the television screen, looked somewhat grave, "Mercury-like center of gravity."

Indeed, what Silvar was demonstrating at that moment was a control over his body’s center of gravity that had clearly reached the realm of a mercury-like center of gravity!

Wu Li nodded, "He’s a formidable opponent."

Silvar’s capabilities in both offense and defense were top-grade, and his reaction speed was too fast, his body control too strong, which was why he was acknowledged by Wu Li as a formidable opponent.

A UFC legend indeed lived up to the hype!

Two minutes later, Silvar had his opponent reduced to merely defending, incapable of fighting back. Seizing the opportunity, he landed continuous blows to his opponent’s chin and temples among other spots and knocked out the opposition.

"Silvar!"

"Silvar!"

"Silvar!"

The entire venue was chanting his name, and Silvar kept signaling to the crowd, performing celebratory gestures.

In the third round, the Brazil Team won, securing 2 points. The total score changed to 3:2, bringing the next round to match point!

This round also showed the other teams a general trend in 2VS2 matches, which was to pair one strong player with a weak one, to have the stronger contestant take on the opponent of higher weight class and the weaker one use their weight advantage against a lower weight class opponent. In this way, a key player could secure not just one point but two!

For the fourth round, the British Team chose a lightweight match, and up came Wu Li’s old acquaintance, Charles.

Ranked seventh in UFC’s lightweight division, Charles was not weak and was a mainstay for the British Team. His opponent, however, also came with a significant background—a master of the Gracie family, sporting a black and red belt.

Charles specialized in ground skill, and there was no need to say much about the Gracies, so this was a ground battle.

Just over three minutes later, the Gracie family’s representative submitted Charles, living up to the renowned nickname of the ’Jiu Jitsu Legend’ family.

And with that, Charles lost a crucial point for the British Team, resulting in a 2:4 elimination by the Brazil Team.

"Ever since that match with your master, it seems Charles has never had an easy time,"

In the locker room, Wang Ruojun whispered to Xu Chuan.

Xu Chuan watched Charles’s grimace on the television screen and couldn’t help but smile slightly; Charles had repeatedly provoked Wu Li in the past, resulting in being put in his place by Wu Li time and again. Now, with the British Team eliminated, Charles didn’t even have the qualification to be Wu Li’s opponent anymore.

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After the match between the Brazil Team and the British Team, it was quickly followed by the Germany Team facing off against the Canada Team.

The strength of these two teams wasn’t much different, and the match was intense. However, there were no top-tier masters, so the audience’s enthusiasm was not fully ignited.

In the end, the Canadian Team narrowly defeated their opponent with a score of 4:3, successfully advancing to the semifinals.

However, the Canadian Team paid a heavy price to secure this victory; they had two key players injured tonight and another during the group matches. Now, they were basically out of options for stand-ins. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the semifinals in the lower half of the draw might be even less interesting than the group stages.

This was one of the difficulties in this Combat World Cup; having top players was certainly important, but the depth of the team was also crucial. Otherwise, after a few matches and a few injuries to key players, with no one else to lead, your top team would immediately turn into cannon fodder. How could you continue to play?

In this regard, the American Team undoubtedly had the strongest foundation of all the teams. They weren’t worried about running out of players at all, instead, each match they would worry about whom to send to play, since everyone was confident in winning. Going on stage was a chance to boost popularity and showcase strength, and no one wanted to miss out.

It was said that the American Team’s coach was so troubled by the lineup for each match that he was nearly going bald, which you could say is a happy problem to have.

Tonight’s third match was between the American Team and the Netherlands Team, and the players from both sides quickly entered the arena.

As the host, the American Team naturally received the most enthusiastic applause and cheers, and the mood of the entire audience was stirred up.

The American Team scored a total of 20 points in the group matches, which means that in three matches, across 21 rounds, they only lost one round!

Such a score, undoubtedly ranking first among all the teams, gave them the right to choose first.

The person from the American Team who came up to select the order of the matches was not the captain, Jon, but the coach, Lill, while the Netherlands Team also sent up their coach.

The selection of the match order could be prearranged, or it could be changed on the fly depending on the opponent’s choices. Since both teams sent their coaches this time, there was definitely this consideration.

As expected, after the selection began, neither party immediately gave an outcome, but instead pondered with furrowed brows. However, each round of thinking didn’t last more than a minute, so the pace was still quite fast.

After the match order was determined, the official matches began.

In the first round, the American Team chose the flyweight class, sending UFC Women’s Featherweight Champion ’Mechanical Woman,’ Rossi.

The Netherlands Team wasn’t weak in the women’s division, but compared to Rossi, who had won the UFC Featherweight championship belt three times, they were undoubtedly a notch below; thus Rossi took down her opponent without much trouble in the first round.

In the second round, 2VS2, the Netherlands Team chose heavyweight and light heavyweight.

When the coach of the Netherlands Team made this choice during the selection phase, the entire venue buzzed with surprise, and the coach of the American Team, Lill, was also taken aback, having not expected their opponent to choose thus.

Heavyweight and light heavyweight, these two classes were where the American Team was strongest. The captain of the American Team, UFC legend ’Demon King’ Jon, was the absolute ruler of the heavyweight class, and in the light heavyweight class, they had ’War Police’ Miouqi, who was also overwhelmingly dominant. Apart from them, the UFC’s top-ranked heavyweight and light heavyweight fighters were also on the American Team.

With such a lineup, opulent to an extreme, how could the Netherlands Team possibly win?

But the Netherlands Team did choose this way, leaving the American Team’s coach, Lill, stunned for a long while before realizing that the opponent probably intended to concede these two points on purpose.

Indeed, once the second-round match began, the two players that the Netherlands Team sent were not their main players and were quickly defeated.

In the subsequent third round, 2VS2, the American Team chose lightweight and middleweight, and the Netherlands Team made another surprising choice by fielding two players who normally fought in light heavyweight and middleweight but cut weight to fight in lower classes.

Such a move was undoubtedly risky; players with good techniques in higher weight classes might not adapt well to a lower weight class. However, the Netherlands chose this risky path to challenge the American Team.

The third round was fiercely contested and became the longest match of the evening, lasting a full ten minutes. Eventually, the Netherlands Team narrowly secured victory in the third round, making the score 2:3.

The American lightweight player, UFC Champion Conrad, suffered a severe injury to his left leg and would likely be unable to participate in subsequent matches; another middleweight player also sustained significant injuries that would affect future games.

The fourth round was for the women’s strawweight class, and both sides fought intensely.

The American Team sent UFC Flyweight Champion ’Lioness’ Amanda, and the Netherlands Team’s player was equally strong and fought with a very targeted strategy, performing far above their usual level!

The two fought for 13 grueling minutes, both pushed to the limit of their stamina, staying in the fight on sheer willpower alone. The will of the two female fighters was moving. In the end, the Netherlands Team’s player succumbed to a cramp in her thigh, while Amanda dislocated her left arm and was TKO’d.

The score on the field was now tied 3:3!

This was an outcome no one had anticipated; everyone thought the American Team would likely win by a large margin, but the opponent had forced them into the deciding match.

The final match, with the atmosphere now noticeably tense, saw the American fans discard their previous calm and relaxed demeanor to loudly cheer on the American Team.

The last match was for the middleweight class, with the American Team sending out UFC Middleweight Champion ’GSP’ George. As a dominant force who had won the UFC Middleweight championship belt five consecutive times, George’s strength was without question. With him taking the last round, American fans felt somewhat relieved.

The match began swiftly, and George’s strength was clearly superior to that of his opponent. Although the Netherlands Team’s player also fought with a targeted game plan, having thoroughly prepared before the match, the absolute difference in strength soon saw him falling behind. Despite several attempts at a counterattack, he was firmly dominated by George, who eventually knocked him out.

The score was fixed at 4:3, with the American Team victorious.

Even though the Netherlands Team’s tactics caught them off guard, and their players almost universally performed above expectations today, providing a glimpse of hope for a reversal, the American Team remained an insurmountable mountain, giving no hint of hope for overcoming them.

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