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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between John Christmas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nick Tricksen (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Christmas might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Enea Vollare Mezzo. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.
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BJJ Brown Belt
Decent elbows
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Excellent boxer
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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
7 - 5 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, John Christmas!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Nick Tricksen!
The judges for this bout are Igor Prikhodko, Aleksandr Martynov and Aleksei Zolotukhin.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A slow jab from Christmas misses its intended target.
Nice shot lands for Tricksen.
It looks like John Christmas has been cut.
Tricksen misses with a jab, cross combination.
Christmas closes the distance and gets a trip takedown into side control. Tricksen quickly recovers to half guard.
Tricksen wants to get back to his feet.
Christmas is trying to control the action in half guard but Tricksen is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Christmas with a momentary lay and pray from half guard.
Tricksen is refusing to be controlled, as Christmas sits in half guard.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Christmas prevents Tricksen from standing back up.
Tricksen is not content to let Christmas control the position.
Tricksen tries to kick Christmas off but Christmas keeps his base steady and stays in half guard.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Christmas is keen to just control but Tricksen is a slippery customer.
The referee has decided to stand the fighters back up, so we'll restart on the feet.
Tricksen looks to clinch
and Christmas makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
Tricksen tries to keep at a distance but Christmas has taken the fight into the clinch.
Christmas unloads a knee to the mid-section.
The referee calls for Christmas to work.
Christmas lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Christmas looking for a takedown.
Christmas is pushing Tricksen up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Christmas lands an elbow that stopped Tricksen in his tracks for a moment.
It looks like Nick Tricksen has been cut.
Tricksen is trying to break free.
Christmas is stalling here.
Christmas lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Christmas working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Christmas's corner are urging him to control the action in the clinch for a moment, rather than mount any serious offense. I'm sure the crowd appreciate those instructions... not.
Christmas scores with a knee to the head.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tricksen is trying to break the clinch but Christmas has him pressed against the cage.
Christmas stalling against the cage.
Christmas seems to have come into the fight with the intention of avoiding any damage in the clinch, rather than actually showing any aggression.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by John Christmas.
Tricksen wants to clinch up but Christmas keeps it at a distance.
Sloppy strikes from Tricksen. Those never looked like landing.
The fighters circle momentarily. Christmas darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
Nice defenses there by Christmas.
Christmas lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tricksen has a nice red mark on his side after a thudding body kick by Christmas.
Tricksen walks into a stiff left hand from Christmas.
Christmas misses with a head kick.
Christmas looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Tricksen moves in looking to clinch but Christmas pushes him off.
Tricksen catches Christmas with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Christmas uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Tricksen.
Tricksen throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Christmas slips a straight right by Tricksen.
Christmas takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Tricksen tries to close the distance and clinch but Christmas swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Tricksen doesn't manage to clinch there - Christmas circles away.
Tricksen lands with an uppercut that bounces Christmas off the cage and back into range.
Tricksen fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Christmas on the side of the head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
John Christmas dominated that round.
Both fighters have cut men working on them during the interval.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.
Tricksen fails in his attempt to clinch.
Tricksen has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Christmas dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Tricksen. That did some damage!
Tricksen throws a right and a left that both miss.
A looping hook to the body misses from Tricksen. Christmas does a little dance to reset his feet.
Christmas sets himself and throws a head kick that knocks Tricksen to the ground! Christmas dives into full mount looking to finish!
Tricksen is rocked!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Christmas unloads with some vicious shots from mount and Tricksen wants out - he looks towards the referee who steps in to save him! Christmas celebrates on the cage and the crowd goes wild!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:42 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). John Christmas!
During a confident post fight interview, John Christmas thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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FIGHT
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