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- Keith Cooper at Florida Combat Challenge III
Two fighters slammed against the cage, sending a spray of blood onto my notepad. While Jordan Ammens (0-0) and Keith Cooper (1-1-1) may be amateurs, they bled like pros, never letting the damage they were inflicting, or incurring, slow them down.
I assumed Ammens, whose 185-pound body was stacked with muscle, would dominate the fight. He came out strong, landing hard, straight punches, but Cooper kept returning fire, punishing Ammens for not covering his face after he threw a punch. Soon, two large cuts opened under Cooper's eyes and blood streamed from Ammens' nostrils. After three, three-minute rounds of slugging, Ammens walked away with a unanimous victory, but Cooper, too, proved something to himself and the applauding crowd.
This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2012.