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Coming up we have a heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Jacob Cullen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Giovanni Niccoli (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Cullen comes to the cage accompanied by Breaking Fangs. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Cardio machine
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Jacob Cullen!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
6 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Giovanni Niccoli!
The judges for this bout are Tatsuya Matsuyama, Yasuomi Hirokawa and Ren Mimura.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Niccoli ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Cullen moves away.
A swing and a miss from Niccoli.
Niccoli lands a nice looking kick to the body. Cullen takes a step back to recover.
Niccoli looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Niccoli throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
It looks like Jacob Cullen has been cut.
Ooooh, nice body kick lands from Niccoli. Cullen shrugs it off though.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Cullen throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Cullen is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Cullen drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Cullen thows a leg kick but Niccoli checks it
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.
Cullen ducks under a wild hook from Niccoli.
Niccoli throws a head kick but Cullen moves out of range.
Niccoli checks a leg kick.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Niccoli moves out of range of the body kick.
Cullen moves in looking to clinch but Niccoli pushes him off.
Niccoli misses with a right hand
and Cullen counters with a thumping low kick.
A looping hook to the body misses from Niccoli. Cullen does a little dance to reset his feet.
Cullen misses with a combination
and Niccoli cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Niccoli scores with a nice strike.
Niccoli throws a jab when Cullen was well out of range.
Niccoli fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Cullen checks it well.
Niccoli is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Cullen keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Niccoli.
Cullen bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.
Niccoli misses the shot to the body.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Niccoli throws a low kick but it's checked well by Cullen.
Cullen takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Niccoli throws a low kick but it's checked well by Cullen.
Cullen forces Niccoli back against the cage and clinches.
Cullen scores a nice knee to the body.
Niccoli lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Cullen is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Niccoli is defending well for now.
Niccoli throws a punch but it's blocked by Cullen.
Cullen tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Cullen missing with knees to the body.
Niccoli prevents a body shot from Cullen.
Niccoli avoiding damage as Cullen throws knees to the body.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Niccoli.
Niccoli stalling in the clinch but Cullen improves position.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cullen looking to throw knees to the head but Niccoli is blocking nicely.
Cullen with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Niccoli lands a right hand that snaps the head of Cullen backwards.
Niccoli can't find room to land a body shot as Cullen controls the action.
Cullen blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Niccoli wants to stall.
A head punch on the inside from Cullen fails to land.
Still in the clinch, Niccoli scores with a nice short uppercut.
Cullen connects with a knee to the head.
It looks like Giovanni Niccoli has been cut.
Cullen blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Niccoli stalling in the clinch but Cullen improves position.
Niccoli seems frustrated at his inability to get double underhooks.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Niccoli managing to block the knees to the body from Cullen.
Cullen tries to land a knee to the head but Niccoli blocks with his arms.
Cullen blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Cullen unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Cullen is struggling to control the position.
Cullen gets a warning from the ref for wasting time.
Cullen misses with a knee to the head.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Niccoli misses with a hook from the clinch.
Niccoli has a couple of punches blocked by Cullen.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Giovanni Niccoli dominated that round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!
Niccoli misses with a looping right.
A thudding body kick lands there by Cullen!
Niccoli avoids the head kick by Cullen.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Niccoli checks a leg kick.
Giovanni Niccoli seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Cullen scores with a jab.
Cullen misses with an attempted mid kick.
A nice leg kick lands there from Niccoli.
Niccoli thumps Cullen with a low kick.
Cullen tries to clinch but Niccoli moves away
and Niccoli counters with a nice uppercut.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Niccoli misses the jab.
Cullen blocks a jab.
Cullen throws a head kick that misses.
Niccoli throws a sloppy head kick and Cullen moves out of range easily.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Niccoli lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Cullen wants to clinch.
Niccoli tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Jacob Cullen is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Cullen throws a low kick but Niccoli moves out of range easily.
Cullen with poor footwork there. He got himself in a bit of a tangle, enabling Niccoli to score with a decent uppercut.
Niccoli checks a leg kick.
Cullen avoids the body shot from Niccoli.
Niccoli dodges the punch combination from Cullen.
Niccoli takes a swing at Cullen's ribcage but misses.
A lazy body kick from Cullen
and Niccoli counters nicely by changing levels and landing a hook to the body.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Niccoli looks to land a left hand but Cullen moved out of range nicely.
Niccoli tries to clinch up but Cullen circles away and keeps his distance.
Niccoli throws a low kick but Cullen moves out of range easily.
Cullen connects with a leg kick. Niccoli looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Cullen steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Niccoli.
Niccoli pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Cullen connects with a high kick.
Cullen misses with a hook
and Niccoli cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Jacob Cullen's cut is getting worse.
Niccoli throws a head kick that misses.
Niccoli throws a chopping leg kick but Cullen manages to avoid taking any serious damage.
Niccoli throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
A head kick by Niccoli misses
and Cullen counters with a kick to the head that grazes his opponent. Niccoli is lucky that one didn't land flush.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cullen tries to land a front kick but Niccoli steps back. That was a bit too telegraphed.
Cullen cracks the inside of Niccoli's front leg.
Cullen closes the distance and pushes Niccoli back into the cage.
Cullen tries to land knees in the clinch but Niccoli avoids the damage to the body.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Niccoli taking a breather.
Niccoli throws a head punch that misses.
Niccoli misses with the head strike.
Cullen tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Cullen tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Niccoli misses with some punches.
Cullen scores a nice knee to the body.
Cullen tries to land knees in the clinch but Niccoli avoids the damage to the body.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Cullen misses with a knee to the head.
Niccoli misses with a punch to the body.
A nice right hand lands inside from Cullen.
Cullen lands an elbow inside that Niccoli shrugs off.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Cullen blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Cullen tries a body shot but Niccoli blocks it.
Cullen lands a body shot in the clinch.
Niccoli avoiding damage as Cullen throws knees to the body.
Cullen is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Niccoli is defending well for now.
Cullen blocks an uppercut.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Cullen takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Cullen with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Niccoli.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
That was a close second round but I would say that Jacob Cullen will probably get the nod.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business. This is the final round!
Cullen misses with a low kick as Niccoli jumps back.
A jab lands there for Niccoli.
A thudding body kick lands there by Cullen!
Niccoli tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Cullen throws a mid kick that lands with a slap.
Niccoli tries to close the distance and clinch up but Cullen swats him away and circles back towards the center.
A bone on bone clash there as Cullen blocks the leg kick.
Cullen takes one to the chin there.
Cullen fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Cullen looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Cullen tries to clinch but Niccoli is having none of it.
Cullen tries to clinch but Niccoli is having none of it.
Niccoli misses with a low kick.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Niccoli swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Niccoli throws a jab when Cullen was well out of range.
Niccoli has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Cullen finds it's way round the side to connect with Niccoli's head.
Niccoli lands with an uppercut that bounces Cullen off the cage and back into range.
Cullen tries to clinch but Niccoli is having none of it.
Niccoli takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.
Niccoli takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Niccoli takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
Niccoli waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Cullen.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Cullen is looking to score with low kicks.
Cullen ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Niccoli moves away.
Niccoli rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Cullen moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Niccoli takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Cullen tries to close the distance and clinch up but Niccoli swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Cullen drives through and clinches with Niccoli against the cage.
Cullen looking to throw knees to the head but Niccoli is blocking nicely.
Cullen throws a knee to the head but misses.
Niccoli takes a shot to the head.
Niccoli digs a right hand underneath Cullen's ribcage. Cullen let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Niccoli managing to block the knees to the body from Cullen.
Cullen tries to land a knee to the head but Niccoli blocks with his arms.
Cullen is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Niccoli looking to stall.
Niccoli blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cullen is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Niccoli is defending well for now.
Niccoli is trying to maintain a safe position but Cullen gets an underhook and turns Niccoli into the cage.
Jacob Cullen has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Cullen misses with a knee to the head.
A nice left hand lands by Niccoli.
Cullen with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Cullen missing with knees to the body.
Niccoli can't find room to land a body shot as Cullen controls the action.
Cullen throws a knee to the head but misses.
Cullen looking to throw knees to the head but Niccoli is blocking nicely.
Niccoli managing to block the knees to the body from Cullen.
Cullen with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Cullen using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Niccoli has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Niccoli throws a head punch that misses.
A head punch on the inside from Niccoli fails to land.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Cullen is looking to control Niccoli's arms but Niccoli gets an underhook and turns him. Now Cullen has his back to the cage.
Cullen tries to work over Niccoli's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Niccoli misses with a hook from the clinch.
Niccoli lands a right hand that snaps the head of Cullen backwards.
Niccoli swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Niccoli is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Cullen tries a knee to the head but Niccoli blocks it.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Cullen throws a knee to the head but misses.
Niccoli swings wildly with an uppercut but Cullen uses good head movement to avoid it.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Cullen misses with a knee strike.
Niccoli on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Cullen is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
And that's the end of the fight!
Jacob Cullen showed his dominance in that final round.
I think Cullen has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Tatsuya Matsuyama scores the fight 29:28
Judge Yasuomi Hirokawa scores the fight 28:29
Judge Ren Mimura scores the fight 29:28
In favor of your winner, by split decision... Jacob Cullen!
Jumping up and down and very excited, Jacob Cullen waved his t-shirt featuring Steel Penn's Laundry 93%'s logo in front of the cameras.
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