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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Alexis Machine (ranked 1200 p4p, 1051 weight class) and Dusty Rhodes (ranked 155 p4p, 141 weight class). Machine comes to the cage accompanied by Satan Is Real. Rhodes has chosen Bury My Bones as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Decent wrestler
Great elbows
Granite chin |
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Good wrestler
World class boxer
Granite chin |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 10 - 6 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Alexis Machine!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Dusty Rhodes!
The judges for this bout are Chad Campbell, Eddie Farnsworth and Jorge Garcia.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Machine wants to clinch.
Rhodes keeps the fight on the outside.
Rhodes throws out a counter right but Machine avoids it with no problem.
Machine tries to clinch up.
A little jabbing left from Rhodes on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
Rhodes scores with a crisp jab that stopped Machine in his tracks.
Rhodes keeps the fight on the outside.
Donk. Rhodes catches Machine right on the button with a cross.
Rhodes closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
Rhodes seems content to maintain position for now, rather than mounting any offense.
Machine is looking to escape.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Machine trying desperately to get back to his feet here but he's not having any joy at all. He's going to tire himself out if he's not careful.
Rhodes not doing much here.
Machine is trying to stand.
Rhodes is looking for an arm triangle, whilst trying to pass to side control. Machine doesn't seem that keen to cooperate though. No luck this time Rhodes.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Machine is trying to stand back up but Rhodes is controlling him
Rhodes not doing much here.
Rhodes has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Machine wants to use the cage to get back to his feet here.
Rhodes content just to control the position here.
Machine's corner are shouting for him to stand up but that's bad cornering - how is he meant to stand up when he's mounted? He should be looking to improve his position on the ground before trying to stand back up.
Rhodes controlling from the full mount.
Rhodes fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Machine trying desperately to get to his feet.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Rhodes is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Machine can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Machine is trying to get to the cage to help him get back to his feet.
Machine in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Machine trying desperately to get to his feet.
Machine on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Machine tries to get out of the position.
Rhodes dominating with strikes here.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Rhodes with the ground and pound from mount.
Machine really wants to buck Rhodes off and get back to his feet.
Machine defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Rhodes.
Machine wants to try and get back to his feet.
Rhodes has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Rhodes cracks Machine with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Rhodes landing strikes from the mount and Machine is in trouble!
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rhodes lands a nice shot to the head.
Rhodes looking to control but Machine is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Rhodes controlling from mount.
Machine is in a horrible position here. Rhodes smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Rhodes landing shots from mount.
Rhodes is landing with some decent strikes but Machine is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Rhodes lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Rhodes trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Rhodes raining down hammerfists from mount.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
A nice elbow there by Rhodes.
Machine is looking to get back to his feet - it's going to be hard from this position.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Rhodes raining down hammerfists from mount.
It looks like Alexis Machine has been cut.
Rhodes lands a heavy elbow.
Rhodes jumps to side control looking for an arm triangle but Machine manages to avoid the submission attempt.
Rhodes working the ground and pound.
Rhodes is in a dominant position here, looking for a kimura. Machine looks calm but he's in trouble here. Rhodes gets his leg over his opponent's head and yanks on the arm. Machine is tapping like a morse code operator on the titanic! SOS! SOS! Rhodes lets go of the hold and Machine can pop his arm back in it's socket.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Dusty Rhodes!
Dusty Rhodes decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
RATING
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