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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Max Caschera (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jimmy Morison (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Caschera might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Crimson King by Demons & Wizards limited edition. Morison is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Riot Maker. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.
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218 lbs
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BJJ Purple Belt
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BJJ Blue Belt
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Max Caschera!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Jimmy Morison!
The judges for this bout are Summer Carpenter, Donatello Bradman and Hugh Johnson.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Caschera throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Morison's waist but Morison gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Caschera off to one side.
A chopping leg kick lands by Morison.
Morison tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Caschera tries to close the distance and clinch up but Morison swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Caschera tries to clinch up.
Caschera shoots in but Morison avoids the takedown attempt easily.
Caschera misses the shot to the body.
Caschera fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Max Caschera. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Morison wants to clinch up but Caschera keeps it at a distance.
Morison throws a nice looking combination but Caschera bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Morison tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Caschera misses with a body shot.
Caschera looks to land a body kick but Morison moved away.
Morison moves in looking to clinch but Caschera pushes him off.
Caschera fails to land the takedown.
Caschera takes a swing at Morison's ribcage but misses.
Caschera misses with a takedown attempt - Morison sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Morison punishes Caschera's body with a nice straight punch.
Morison keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Morison tries to clinch up but Caschera circles away and keeps his distance.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Caschera throws a sloppy head kick
and Morison counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Caschera is breathing heavily.
Morison pushes Caschera up against the cage in a clinch.
Caschera tries to stall but Morison uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Morison lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
It looks like Max Caschera has been cut.
Morison landing knees to the head.
Morison tries to land a knee to the head but Caschera blocks with his arms.
Morison connects with a nasty looking knee right to Caschera's face.
Morison lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Morison keeps control of Caschera as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Caschera has a body lock and is looking for a takedown. Morison is bouncing around trying to prevent the takedown and somehow he has indeed managed to stay on his feet.
Morison with a knee to the head.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Caschera.
Morison blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Morison prevents a body shot from Caschera.
Morison lands a hook that snaps the head of Caschera backwards.
Morison gets double underhooks to prevent a takedown attempt from Caschera.
Morison misses with a knee to the head.
Caschera wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Morison has him pressed against the cage.
A body shot lands from Caschera.
Morison lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Morison doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Morison stalling in the clinch but Caschera improves position.
Morison landing knees to the head.
Morison tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Morison throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Morison breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Caschera throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Morison's waist but Morison gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Caschera off to one side.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Caschera lands with a kick to the ribs.
Jimmy Morison is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Caschera fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Morison manages to avoid it.
Horrible takedown by Caschera or perhaps it was just good defense by Morison which made him look bad.
Caschera looks to throw a body kick
and Morison moves into the clinch.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Morison scores a nice knee to the body.
Caschera wants to stall.
Caschera wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Caschera wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Morison breaks from the clinch.
Morison stuffs the takedown.
Morison scores with a three punch combo!
Morison moves into range and connects with a jab.
Max Caschera seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Morison moves into the clinch.
Morison gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Caschera tries to break the clinch but Morison is controlling the position.
Morison blocking some punches.
Caschera is trying to break the clinch but Morison has him pressed against the cage.
Caschera is trying to break the clinch but Morison has him pressed against the cage.
Caschera looking for a takedown.
Morison landing knees to the head.
Caschera misses with an elbow strike.
Morison scores with a hook to the body.
Morison landing knees to the head.
Max Caschera's cut is getting worse.
Morison lands a damaging elbow.
Caschera takes a knee right on the jaw!
Morison keeps control of Caschera as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Morison breaks the clinch.
Caschera closes the distance and looks for a trip takedown... aaaand he's got it - Caschera lands in his opponent's guard.
Morison manages to escape and get back to his feet.
Caschera misses with a takedown attempt. He shot from a bit too far out.
Morison pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Caschera shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Caschera with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
Caschera lands a big elbow.
Caschera scoring with some good ground and pound from mount here. Will he manage to finish Morison?
Caschera is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Morison can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Caschera is working for a guillotine from mount but Morison frees his head quite easily.
Caschera looking to secure an arm triangle but Morison defends it well.
Caschera has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Caschera punishing his opponent with strikes.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Caschera punching from mount but Morison doing a good job of avoiding damage.
Caschera cracks Morison with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for leaving it all in the cage!
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Morison tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Morison holding onto his opponent's waist for dear life, as Caschera tries to land some strikes to get him to release his grip.
Morison is wriggling around trying to escape.
Caschera with the ground and pound from mount.
Caschera throws an elbow from mount that misses. Lucky escape for Morison because Caschera loaded up on that one.
Morison in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Morison really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Caschera. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Morison tries to hold on but Caschera postures up.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Morison is looking to improve his position but Caschera isn't that keen on the idea.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Jimmy Morison dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Max Caschera's cut.
That's time! Caschera's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.
Morison lands a jab-cross combination.
Morison with a jab.
Caschera looking for a takedown here - he's got it.
Morison is working an open guard so Caschera takes the opportunity to get back to his feet.
Max Caschera is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Caschera tries to keep at a distance but Morison has taken the fight into the clinch.
Morison lands a hook that snaps the head of Caschera backwards.
Caschera throws a head punch that misses.
A knee to the head by Morison.
Morison with a knee to the head.
Morison keeps control of Caschera as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Caschera wants to break free but Morison has control.
Morison scores with a knee to the head.
Caschera manages to break the clinch.
Caschera gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Morison landing knees to the head.
Morison using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Caschera has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Morison misses with a knee strike.
Caschera trying to stall but Morison improves his position.
Caschera can't break the clinch.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Morison throws a knee to the head but misses.
Morison breaks the clinch.
Nice sprawl there from Morison as Caschera shoots in.
Caschera looks for a takedown but Morison sprawls well.
Morison is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Caschera takes a swing at Morison's ribcage but misses.
Caschera shoots in but Morison avoids the takedown attempt easily.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Max Caschera. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Caschera looks to clinch
and Morison counters with a kick to the head that grazes his opponent. Caschera is lucky that one didn't land flush.
Caschera looks for a takedown but Morison sprawls well.
Caschera throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Morison pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Caschera throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Morison misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Morison misses the shot to the body.
Morison throws a solid leg kick but Caschera takes the impact on his shin and smiles at Morison.
Caschera avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Caschera stuns Morison with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Caschera scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
Who's going to make the next move?
Caschera has had enough of the ground for now and decides to stand.
Morison stuffs the takedown attempt from Caschera. Caschera gets slowly back to his feet.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Caschera fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Morison manages to avoid it.
Morison tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Morison tries to clinch up
and Caschera counters with a driving takedown into guard. Nice work there by Caschera.
Caschera might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Caschera throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Morison works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
Caschera working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Morison pulls Caschera in close to his closed guard and prevents Caschera from doing any damage or advancing position.
Morison is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Morison seems keen to control rather than go for a submission, at least for now.
Caschera won't allow Morison to get back to his feet.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Morison working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Caschera.
Caschera stands and steps away. Morison gets to his feet too and we're back to the striking game.
Caschera takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Caschera shoots in for a takedown but Morison shows good takedown defense.
Morison doesn't manage to clinch there - Caschera circles away.
Morison tries to clinch there but Caschera circles away.
Morison is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
Morison scoring well with a low kick there.
Caschera misses with a wild body shot.
Jimmy Morison seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Morison clinches.
Morison manages to break the clinch.
Caschera pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Caschera shoots in and drives through. Morison sprawls well.
Caschera circles away from the clinch attempt
and Caschera counters with a single leg into guard. Morison didn't expect that.
Morison looking to control the pace of the fight rather than finish it.
Morison keeping moving, preventing Caschera from controlling successfully.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Caschera drops back looking for a leg! Morison is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Morison manages to kick Caschera off! Caschera jumps back into Morison's guard.
Caschera would like to get this fight back to the feet but can't get free from the closed guard.
Caschera trying to pass the guard but can't manage it just yet.
Morison is working from a closed guard but he's struggling to control his opponent.
Morison is trying to stand up but he's not managed so far.
Morison looking to control the pace of the fight rather than finish it.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
The fight stays on the outside here - Caschera looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Caschera takes a swing at Morison's ribcage but misses.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Max Caschera dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Max Caschera's cut.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business. This is the final round!
Caschera fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Morison, pushing him back against the cage.
Morison keeps control of Caschera as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Caschera lands a right hand that snaps the head of Morison backwards.
Morison lands an uppercut.
Morison escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Morison tries to clinch but Caschera moves away
and Caschera counters with a takedown into side control.
Caschera has hold of Morison's arm here. He's working for an Americana. It looks like he might have it! Morison tries to escape but he's just digging himself in deeper - Caschera cranks the arm and Morison screams in pain! The ref makes a decision and ends the fight before the tap - no complains from Morison, who is just happy to have his arm attached to his body.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:32 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). Max Caschera!
Max Caschera retains his heavyweight title!
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hype
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