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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Bob The Man (ranked 1381 p4p, 146 weight class) and Thurgood Jenkins (ranked 1894 p4p, 195 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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155 lbs
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150 lbs
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Abu Dhabi Champ
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Good wrestler
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
6 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Bob The Man!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Thurgood Jenkins!
The judges for this bout are Arvi Lind, Tarja Halkonen and Marco Blurström.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jenkins lands an overhand right.
Jenkins checks a low kick from The Man.
The Man misses with a double jab.
Jenkins tries to counter by closing the distance.
Jenkins has managed to clinch.
Jenkins escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Good work by The Man as he checks the leg kick.
Jenkins swats away the attempt to clinch by The Man.
Jenkins's jab looks to have found its range, popping The Man under the eye.
Jenkins scores with a jab to the body.
Jenkins misses with a two punch combination.
The Man takes a shot to the nose. Hopefully that hasn't broken it.
Jenkins throws a predictable looking body shot
and The Man counters with a slapping leg kick.
Jenkins misses with a hook. The Man ducked under it nicely.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Jenkins looks to throw the jab but The Man is out of range.
Jenkins fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with The Man, pushing him back against the cage.
The Man throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Jenkinss head.
That's one minute gone in the round.
The Man throws a knee to the head but misses.
Jenkins lands with a left to the head.
Jenkins lands a left hand.
Jenkins misses with a short punch on the inside.
The Man dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Jenkins.
Jenkins prevents The Man from breaking the clinch.
The Man misses with a punch to the body.
The Man is trying to maintain a safe position but Jenkins gets an underhook and turns The Man into the cage.
Jenkins tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Jenkins being controlled against the cage.
The referee calls for The Man to work.
The Man prevents a body shot from Jenkins.
The Man breaks from the clinch.
Jenkins instigates a clinch.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
A bit of stalling here from The Man.
The Man trying to stall but Jenkins improves his position.
Jenkins lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down The Man.
The Man lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Jenkins lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt The Man or not.
Jenkins is looking to control The Man's arms but The Man gets an underhook and turns him. Now Jenkins has his back to the cage.
The Man blocks an uppercut.
The Man is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Jenkins trying to stall but The Man improves his position.
The Man blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Jenkins misses with a short punch on the inside.
The Man throws a knee to the head but misses.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Good body shot from Jenkins.
Jenkins misses with a punch on the inside.
Jenkins throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Jenkins tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Jenkins misses with a hook to the ribs.
Jenkins misses with some punches.
The Man is trying to break the clinch but Jenkins is controlling him.
The Man blocks a punch to the side of the head.
The Man looking to stall.
The Man looking to throw knees to the head but Jenkins is blocking nicely.
The Man is pushing Jenkins up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Jenkins works on The Man's body with a couple of short punches.
A shot in the inside from Jenkins.
Jenkins misses with a short punch on the inside.
A head punch on the inside from The Man fails to land.
The Man blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
A head punch on the inside from Jenkins fails to land.
The Man with an attempt at a knee that misses.
The Man blocking some punches.
Jenkins misses with a hook from the clinch.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Jenkins.
A short left from Jenkins.
Jenkins being controlled against the cage.
Jenkins misses with a punch to the body.
The Man blocks an uppercut.
The Man throws a punch but it's blocked by Jenkins.
The Man escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Jenkins loads up on a big right hand but The Man slips the punch.
Jenkins paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
A left lands for The Man.
Jenkins ducks under a wild hook from The Man.
The Man throws a shot from downtown. Jenkins moves away and avoids it.
The Man throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
The Man tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Jenkins paws at him with a jab and circles away.
The Man lands a head shot.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Thurgood Jenkins dominated that round.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action.
The Man will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Jenkins scores with a jab to the jaw.
The Man misses with a low kick.
The Man blocks a leg kick.
Thurgood Jenkins seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
The Man works the jab nicely.
Jenkins throws a leg kick which misses The Man's front leg but catches the back leg as The Man tries to avoid it.
A slow jab from Jenkins misses its intended target.
The Man feinted there with a counter leg kick.
Jenkins misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
A counter left hand to the body from The Man misses its target.
Bob The Man is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Jenkins fakes high and swings low for a body shot but The Man manages to avoid it.
The Man seem to be loading up, looking for a big counter.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
The Man wants to clinch up but Jenkins keeps it at a distance.
A little jabbing left from Jenkins on the counter but it doesn't find it's target.
A jab from Jenkins misses.
Jenkins looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
A combination from Jenkins does no damage.
Jenkins blocks a jab.
Jenkins has done a lot of speed work in the buildup to this fight.
Jenkins throws a hook but The Man blocks it.
That's one minute gone in the round.
The Man checks a leg kick.
Jenkins avoids the head kick by The Man.
The Man gets in close and instigates a clinch.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Jenkins.
The Man looking to slow down the pace here.
Nice elbow from The Man.
Jenkins throws a head punch that misses.
Thurgood Jenkins seems to be working more effectively in the clinch in the fight so far.
Jenkins swings wildly with an uppercut but The Man uses good head movement to avoid it.
Jenkins throws a head punch that misses.
Jenkins misses with some punches.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Jenkins fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Jenkins throws a blind hook that connects with the side of The Mans head.
The Man blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
The Man is trying to maintain a safe position but Jenkins gets an underhook and turns The Man into the cage.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Jenkins lands with a right to the head.
Jenkins makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Jenkins swings wildly with an uppercut but The Man uses good head movement to avoid it.
Jenkins tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Jenkins.
The Man prevents a body shot from Jenkins.
The Man pressing his opponent against the cage.
A head punch on the inside from Jenkins fails to land.
The Man prevents a body shot from Jenkins.
The Man is trying to break the clinch but Jenkins is controlling him.
The Man tries a body shot but Jenkins blocks it.
The Man misses with a shot to the kidneys.
The Man softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Jenkins misses with some punches.
Jenkins throws a punch but it's blocked by The Man.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
The Man looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Jenkins is trying to stall.
Jenkins scores with a shoulder strike.
The Man breaks the clinch.
The Man dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Jenkins. That did some damage!
Jenkins throws a right and a left that both miss.
The Man misses the shot to the body.
The Man throws a right and a left that both miss.
The Man swats away the attempt to clinch by Jenkins.
The Man tries to counter by moving into the clinch but Jenkins manages to circle out of the way.
Jenkins scores with a decent looking hook.
The Man pushes Jenkins up against the cage in a clinch.
Jenkins has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
The Man blocks a punch to the side of the head.
The Man tries to break the clinch but Jenkins is controlling the position.
Jenkins misses with a shot to the kidneys.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
The Man misses with a punch on the inside.
Jenkins lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
The Man breaks the clinch.
The Man tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
The Man cracks the inside of Jenkins's front leg.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Jenkins ducks down and throws a hook to the body but The Man moves away.
The Man keeps the fight on the outside.
The Man motions for Jenkins to come forward. The Man throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Jenkins lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
The Man misses with a wild body shot.
The Man bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Jenkins's head.
Jenkins avoids the body shot from The Man.
Jenkins throws a leg kick
and The Man counters with a two punch combo.
The Man looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
The Man dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Jenkins. That did some damage!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
A close second round but Thurgood Jenkins will probably get the nod - 10:9.
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!
Jenkins swats away the attempt to clinch by The Man.
Jenkins misses with a series of wild punches.
Oooooooooooh, not good. A low kick from The Man lands where it shouldn't have, right in the... well, you know what he did? He kicked him in the penis. He's injured, injured bad. The referee sends both fighters to their corners and Jenkins has 5 minutes to recover. He's OK now though... a thumbs up from Jenkins and we're back underway with a touch of gloves.
The Man throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
The Man throws a shot from downtown. Jenkins moves away and avoids it.
Jenkins forces The Man back against the cage and clinches.
Jenkins is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Jenkins pushes The Man back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Jenkins tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
The Man is pushing Jenkins up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Jenkins lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Jenkins stalls.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Jenkins on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
A right hand to the body from Jenkins.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Jenkins.
A short left from Jenkins.
Jenkins fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
A short right hand to the side of the head by The Man.
The Man swings away with an uppercut that misses.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Jenkins.
Jenkins misses with a body punch.
Jenkins escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
An inside leg kick lands from The Man.
The Man scores with a jab. Jenkins acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
The Man throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
The Man throws a nice inside leg kick.
Jenkins on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by The Man. The Man obviously looking to wear him down.
The Man moves out of range of the strikes.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Jenkins wants to slow The Man down by chopping away at his legs.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Jenkins keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
The Man keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
A decent looking cross lands there for Jenkins.
Jenkins motions for The Man to come forward. Jenkins throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.
The Man drives through and clinches with Jenkins against the cage.
The Man pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Jenkins scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Jenkins keeps the fight on the outside.
Jenkins throws a leg kick which misses The Man's front leg but catches the back leg as The Man tries to avoid it.
Jenkins takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
The Man missing with a left hand there. Jenkins was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
The Man tries to clinch up.
The Man lands a nice leg kick that just misses Jenkins's sensitive parts.
Jenkins bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps The Man's head backwards.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Jenkins fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
The Man appeared to be looking to counter that last move with a leg kick.
Jenkins throws a body kick, spinning off balance
and The Man counters by moving into the clinch.
Jenkins pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Jenkins cracks The Man with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
The Man bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.
Jenkins misses with a body kick.
Jenkins throws a body kick that misses.
The Man dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Jenkins on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
The Man fails in his attempt to clinch.
The Man takes a swing at Jenkins's ribcage but misses.
Thurgood Jenkins seems to be getting the better of the standup.
The Man fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Jenkins.
Jenkins thows a left - swing and a miss!
Jenkins jabs. That one connects to the head of his opponent.
The Man misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
The Man tries to clinch there but Jenkins circles away.
Jenkins swats away the attempt to clinch by The Man.
Jenkins misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from The Man.
The Man clinches with his opponent.
A short left from The Man.
The Man misses with a knee strike.
Jenkins misses with a hook from the clinch.
The Man stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
The Man breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Jenkins's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Jenkins ducks down and throws a hook to the body but The Man moves away.
Jenkins misses the shot to the body.
The Man fires out a quick counter leg kick but Jenkins just manages to avoid it.
The Man takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
The Man dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Jenkins. That did some damage!
Bob The Man has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
The Man slips under a jab.
The Man throws out a loose jab but Jenkins uses good head movement to avoid it.
And that's the end of the fight!
I would just about give that final round to Thurgood Jenkins.
Well Jenkins has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. 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 Arvi Lind scores the fight 27:30
Judge Tarja Halkonen scores the fight 27:30
Judge Marco Blurström scores the fight 28:29
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Thurgood Jenkins!
A victorious Thurgood Jenkins thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.
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energy
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