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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Frankie Escudero (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ross Winner (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). 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 Blue Belt
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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
1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Frankie Escudero!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Ross Winner!
The judges for this bout are Colin Fotheringham, Paul Tew and James Ackerman.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Escudero tries to clinch there but Winner circles away.
Winner shoots in for a double leg but Escudero sprawls well. That's going to sap some energy.
Winner moves out of range as Escudero throws a body kick.
Escudero tries to keep at a distance but Winner has taken the fight into the clinch.
Winner goes for a takedown in the clinch but Escudero prevents it.
Escudero is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Escudero lands a damaging elbow.
Escudero throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Winners head.
Escudero can't break the clinch.
Escudero working aggressively here.
Escudero misses with a punch on the inside.
Knees to the body from Escudero.
Escudero's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Escudero closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Winner to the mat! Winner manages to get full guard.
Winner has momentary wrist control but Escudero slips an elbow through the middle.
Escudero wants to pass the guard but Winner is keeping the position.
Winner is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Winner has his feet on Escudero's hips. He pushes off and gets to his feet. Nice work.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Winner throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Winner is looking to clinch but Escudero is avoiding it.
Winner closes the distance and lands a one-two.
Winner looks gassed!
Winner feints and then cracks Escudero's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Escudero down.
Winner throws a head kick that misses.
Escudero connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Escudero throws a head kick that misses.
Escudero throws a head kick but Winner moves out of range.
Winner moves in looking to clinch but Escudero pushes him off.
Winner misses with the combination.
Escudero moves into the clinch.
Escudero lands a nice shot to the body.
Escudero escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Escudero pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Winner will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Escudero stuffs the takedown attempt from Winner. Winner gets slowly back to his feet.
Frankie Escudero has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ross Winner.
Escudero scores with a jab to the head.
Winner takes a head kick and shrugs it off.
Winner walks forward, straight into a front kick from Escudero.
Winner should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Escudero closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Escudero lands a hook to the side of the head.
Escudero's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Escudero throws a body kick but he was well out of range there.
Escudero scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Escudero connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Winner tries to keep at a distance but Escudero has taken the fight into the clinch.
Winner wants a takedown.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Escudero pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Escudero closes the distance and clinches.
Escudero's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Escudero bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Winner's head backwards.
Escudero throws a sloppy head kick
and Winner counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Winner moves into the clinch.
A short uppercut from Escudero.
Winner jumps guard but Escudero stands there with Winner around his waist. Winner gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Escudero lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Winner misses with a punch on the inside.
Escudero's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Escudero tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Winner paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Escudero wants to clinch up but Winner keeps it at a distance.
Winner looks to clinch
and Escudero counters by moving into the clinch.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Escudero.
Escudero throws a knee to the head but misses.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Escudero wants to break the clinch but can't.
Escudero wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Escudero is pressed up against the cage. Winner has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Escudero down to the mat. Escudero avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
Winner connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Escudero misses with a head kick.
Winner fails with an attempt to clinch.
Winner fails with the takedown.
Winner is looking to clinch but Escudero is avoiding it.
Escudero has managed to clinch.
Escudero is trying to break free.
Escudero keeps control of Winner as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Escudero misses with some punches.
Escudero pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Winner gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Winner misses with a shot to the kidneys.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Frankie Escudero dominated that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!
Winner tries to bum rush Escudero with a series of wild strikes but Escudero uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Winner fails to land with a series of punches.
Escudero tries to land a body kick
and Winner makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
Nice body punch from Escudero.
Escudero takes one on the button.
Escudero wants to clinch.
Escudero tries to close the distance and clinch up but Winner swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Winner has his head slapped from side to side by a 3 punch combination. That must have hurt him.
Escudero slips a jab and a cross from Winner.
Winner circles away from the clinch attempt
and Winner counters with a series of strikes. Escudero will be more careful next time no doubt.
Escudero keeps the fight on the outside.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Escudero throws a head kick that misses.
Escudero throws a head kick but Winner moves out of range.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Escudero tries to clinch there but Winner circles away.
Winner shoots in but no luck this time.
Escudero moves into range and clinches up with Winner.
Escudero escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Escudero gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Winner tries to stall but Escudero uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Escudero escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Winner takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.
Escudero misses with a head kick.
A head kick by Escudero misses
and Winner counters into the clinch. Nicely done.
Escudero gets through Winner's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Winner tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Escudero just stands there and leans against the cage.
Escudero throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Winners head.
Winner fails to pull the fight into his guard.
Frankie Escudero has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ross Winner.
Escudero lands a damaging elbow.
Winner tries to pull guard but can't drag his opponent to the mat. Escudero just stands there and leans against the cage.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Winner prevents Escudero from breaking the clinch.
Winner wants to break the clinch but can't.
Escudero lands a left hand.
Winner looking to throw knees to the head but Escudero is blocking nicely.
Winner avoids the elbow strike from Escudero, against the cage.
Winner tries to pull guard but Escudero won't allow it.
Escudero manages to break the clinch.
Winner circles away from the clinch attempt
so Winner counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.
Winner stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Escudero swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Winner wants to control from the top but Escudero keeps moving.
Winner scoring with punches to the head and body.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Winner wants to stand but Escudero has a closed guard, so he can't escape.
Escudero lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Winner!
Winner is trying to escape the mount.
Winner defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Escudero.
Winner blocking the ground and pound.
Escudero throwing sloppy strikes, which aren't doing any damage.
Escudero throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Winner is looking to get to half guard.
Escudero working Winner over with strikes here.
Winner bucks up and manages to get a nice reversal! He's in guard on the top - nicely done!
Winner won't allow Escudero to sweep him here.
Winner wants to stand but Escudero is controlling his posture from full guard.
Winner won't allow Escudero to get back to his feet.
Winner has decided he wants to stand but the closed guard of Escudero is proving hard to escape from.
Winner working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
A close second round but Ross Winner will probably get the nod - 10:9.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!
Escudero feints and then cracks Winner's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Winner down.
Winner fails to land the takedown.
Winner tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Escudero moves into the clinch successfully.
Escudero manages to break the clinch.
Escudero throws a head kick that misses.
The fight stays on the outside here - Escudero looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Escudero ducks under a wild hook from Winner.
Escudero throws a series of punches but Winner moves out of range.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Escudero tries a head kick but it misses.
Winner gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Winner lands an elbow just above Escudero 's eye.
Winner manages to break the clinch.
Winner misses with a head kick.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Escudero on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Winner. Winner obviously looking to wear him down.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Winner rushes Escudero and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
A short right from Escudero on the inside.
Escudero crunches a lovely knee into Winner's ribcage.
Winner jumps guard but Escudero stands there with Winner around his waist. Winner gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
Escudero breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Winner wants to clinch up but Escudero keeps it at a distance.
Escudero tries to clinch there but Winner circles away.
Winner clinches.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Escudero.
Escudero wants to break the clinch but can't.
Winner goes for a takedown attempt but Escudero pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.
Frankie Escudero has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ross Winner.
Winner closes the distance but Escudero moves to the side
and Escudero holds on and brings the fighters into a clinch.
Winner tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Escudero smiles and moves away.
Escudero clinches up against the cage.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Escudero.
Escudero throws a knee to the head but misses.
Frankie Escudero has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Nice body punch from Winner - that landed with a thud.
Winner leaning against his opponent.
Escudero lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Escudero lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Winner or not.
Escudero misses with a punch to the body.
Winner breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Escudero tries to clinch but Winner moves away
and Winner counters by clinching up.
Winner is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Escudero doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Winner blocks the elbow strike.
Winner keeps control of Escudero as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Escudero tries a body shot but Winner blocks it.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Winner displaying some good clinch control by pressing Escudero up against the cage.
Escudero wants to break the clinch but can't.
Escudero managing to block the knees to the body from Winner.
Winner lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Winner keeps control of Escudero as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Winner is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Escudero gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.
Winner scores a nice knee to the body.
Escudero pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Winner tries to shoot in for a takedown. He's got hold of a leg but Escudero swivels and escapes.
Escudero tries to clinch but Winner is having none of it.
Escudero moves into range and clinches up with Winner.
Winner gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Winner.
Winner tries to pull guard but Escudero holds him up against the cage and eventually Winner drops back down to his feet.
Winner escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Winner moves out of range as Escudero throws a body kick.
Winner throws a nice looking combination but Escudero bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Escudero clinches up with Winner and pushes him back against the cage.
Winner keeps control of Escudero as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Escudero pushes off an fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Escudero with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Winner changes levels and goes for a takedown here. Escudero fights it off and pushes away nicely.
Escudero closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Winner to the mat! Winner manages to get full guard.
Winner pulls Escudero in close to prevent any damage.
Winner wants to get back to his feet but Escudero is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Escudero trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Frankie Escudero clearly takes that round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.
Winner moves into range and clinches up with Escudero.
Winner changes levels and goes for a takedown here. Escudero fights it off and pushes away nicely.
Escudero circles away from the clinch attempt.
Winner circles away from the clinch attempt.
Escudero looks to clinch
and Winner counters with a takedown into full mount! That could mean trouble for Escudero!
Escudero regains half guard.
Escudero wants to get back to full guard.
It's got to the stage where if one of these guys blows hard enough, the other might fall over.
Winner prevents Escudero from standing back up.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Escudero wants to get back to full guard but Winner has passed into side control.
Winner with the ground and pound from mount.
Winner swings around for an armbar but it's a sloppy attempt and Escudero is now in Winner's guard. A big mistake from Winner there, giving up the dominant position!
Escudero postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Escudero 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.
Winner trying to keep a closed guard but Escudero is proving a slippery customer.
Winner working for a triangle but Escudero defends it easily.
Winner working for a triangle but Escudero defends it easily.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Winner tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Winner looking for subs off his back but Escudero has passed one foot through into half guard.
Escudero passes to full mount!
Escudero lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Winner hang on?
That's three minutes gone in the round.
A nice elbow there by Escudero.
Escudero has control of Winner's right arm, working for a kimura. It's a bit of a token attempt though and Winner regains control of the situation pretty easily.
Winner is trying to escape the mount.
Winner is not a happy chappy… he wants out of there.
Escudero breaks from Winner's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Escudero working Winner over with strikes here.
Winner in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
Winner is wriggling around trying to escape.
Escudero lands a heavy elbow.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
The referee warns Winner that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Winner is looking to improve his position but Escudero isn't that keen on the idea.
Escudero landing strikes from the mount.
Escudero with good strikes from the mount here!
Escudero landing shots from mount.
Escudero is looking to secure an arm. He's managed it! He's pivoting for an armbar - that looks tight! But Winner has managed to get out of it and now he's in a dominant position. Nice work from Winner!
Escudero will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
Escudero pushes Winner off and scrambles back to his feet.
Escudero fails in his attempt to clinch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
That was a close fourth round but I would say that Frankie Escudero will probably get the nod.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action. This is the final round!
Escudero tries to clinch but Winner moves out of range.
Winner closes the distance and pushes Escudero back into the cage.
Winner decides to pull guard.
Winner striking off his back but it's not causing Escudero any problems.
Escudero gets to his feet - Winner follows without any prompting.
Escudero gets a clinch.
Escudero has a couple of punches blocked by Winner.
Winner has had enough of the clinch but Escudero keeps him there for the moment.
Escudero working aggressively here.
Winner drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Escudero gets the underhooks and prevents it.
Escudero lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Escudero is trying to break the clinch but Winner has him pressed against the cage.
Winner pulls guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Both of our modern day gladiators look out of it here - an gruelling 5 rounds of action taking it's toll on them, no doubt.
Escudero scoring with punches to the head and body.
Escudero stands up and waves to Winner to follow him.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Escudero tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Winner has managed to clinch.
Still in the clinch, Escudero scores with a nice short uppercut.
Escudero lands a shot to the body.
Winner tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Winner tries to stall but Escudero uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Escudero breaks from the clinch.
Escudero tries to clinch but Winner moves away
and Winner counters with a head kick.
Frankie Escudero is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Escudero tries to grapple but his opponent circles
and Winner counters with a body kick that stops Escudero in his tracks momentarily.
Escudero throws a head kick that Winner semi-blocks.
Winner staying out of range there.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Escudero looks to clinch
and Winner counters by clinching up.
Winner avoiding damage.
Escudero gets through Winner's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Escudero escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Escudero throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Winner misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Winner takes a punch to the jaw and another one to the bread basket.
Winner avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Escudero darts in and clinches Winner up against the cage.
Escudero swings wildly with an uppercut but Winner uses good head movement to avoid it.
Winner tries to take the fight to the ground by pulling guard but can't manage it.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Escudero.
Escudero wants to break the clinch but can't.
Winner tries to score a body lock takedown but Escudero shows good agility there to stay on his feet.
Frankie Escudero has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Ross Winner.
Escudero comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Winner keeps control of Escudero as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Winner's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Winner is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Escudero is keeping busy.
Escudero misses with some punches.
Escudero lands a shoulder strike.
Escudero is pressed up against the cage. Winner has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Escudero down to the mat. Escudero avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
Winner misses with a two punch combination.
Winner throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Winner gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Escudero softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Escudero's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Escudero lands a with a good body shot.
Escudero jabbing away but nothing is landing.
The fight stays on the outside here - Winner looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Winner throws a leg kick but Escudero sees it coming and checks it nicely.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Winner pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Escudero takes the fight into the clinch.
Escudero breaks the clinch.
Escudero misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Winner doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Escudero counters with a nice uppercut.
Escudero moves in looking to clinch but Winner pushes him off.
Escudero looks to clinch
and Winner counters with a takedown into side control.
Escudero is trying to get back to half guard.
Escudero is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Ross Winner has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Ross Winner has got the better of the ground game so far.
Winner working the body and head with strikes.
And that's the end of the fight!
Ross Winner comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Escudero 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 5 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Colin Fotheringham scores the fight 48:47
Judge Paul Tew scores the fight 48:47
Judge James Ackerman scores the fight 48:48
In favor of your winner, by majority decision... Frankie Escudero!
Frankie Escudero is the new featherweight champion!
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