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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Manlio Marconi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Haji Muakbar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Marconi comes to the cage accompanied by Hail Holy Queen. Muakbar has chosen That Punjabi Jay-Z song as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Both fighters will be looking to make this an exciting fight for the fans, I'm sure!
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150 lbs
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159 lbs
10 - 4 - 0 |
BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine |
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Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Good gas tank |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Manlio Marconi!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
10 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Haji Muakbar!
The judges for this bout are David Schapiro, John Kavanagh and Jonathan Paton.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A combination from Marconi does no damage.
A left and a right from Muakbar both land. Nice combination.
A slow jab from Muakbar misses its intended target.
A shot to the body from Muakbar misses
and Marconi cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Muakbar feints and as Marconi raises his hands in defense, Muakbar changes levels and drives through with a takedown into guard.
Muakbar trying to control but Marconi is working from the bottom.
Muakbar with a flurry of punches that miss.
Muakbar advances position into side control!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Marconi is looking for a sweep.
Muakbar has knee on belly and moves into mount.
Marconi knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Muakbar on the ground.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Marconi is looking to get to half guard.
Muakbar dominating with strikes here.
Muakbar raining down hammerfists from mount.
Muakbar looking to control but Marconi is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Marconi is in all sorts of trouble here.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Muakbar controlling from mount.
Muakbar landing punches.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Muakbar lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Muakbar punishing his opponent with strikes.
Marconi is rocked!
Muakbar trying to control but Marconi is having none of it.
Marconi really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Muakbar has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Muakbar with the ground and pound from mount.
Marconi in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Muakbar working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Oh Marconi is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Marconi is looking to improve his position but Muakbar isn't that keen on the idea.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Muakbar connects with a bit shot that sees Marconi covering up! More strikes from Muakbar and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Muakbar is our winner by TKO!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:19 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Haji Muakbar!
Haji Muakbar is the new featherweight champion!
A very excited looking Haji Muakbar rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.
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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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