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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Lester Burnham (ranked 1248 p4p, 138 weight class) and Jay Brown (ranked 1972 p4p, 216 weight class). Burnham comes to the cage accompanied by Just Thinking. Brown has chosen Hate Me Now by Nas as his entrance music. Jay Brown struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 146.1lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Man, I cannot wait for this one!
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155 lbs
8 - 0 - 0 |
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174 cm
20
160 lbs
8 - 4 - 0 |
Abu Dhabi Champ
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine |
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Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Determined |
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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
8 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Lester Burnham!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
8 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, Jay Brown!
The judges for this bout are Wagner Zegers, Paul Aken and Nard Betker.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A jab from Brown does it's job there.
Brown drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
It looks like Jay Brown has been cut.
Brown keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Burnham.
Burnham scores with a nice right hand.
Brown shoots in looking for a takedown but Burnham manages to keep the fight standing, pushing Brown's face into the canvas for good measure before circling away.
Donk. Burnham catches Brown right on the button with a cross.
Burnham pushes Brown up against the cage in a clinch.
Burnham blocks a body shot from Brown.
Brown fails to pull guard.
Burnham lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Brown backwards.
Burnham stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Burnham lands a shoulder strike.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Burnham displaying some good clinch control by pressing Brown up against the cage.
Brown is trying to drag Burnham to the mat but Burnham just about manages to keep his footing. He used the cage to his advantage there.
Lester Burnham has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Jay Brown.
Burnham lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Brown.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Brown is trying to push Burnham away but Burnham has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Burnham scores with a hook to the body.
Burnham gets through Brown's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Burnham.
Burnham lands a body punch.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Burnham.
Burnham blocks an uppercut.
Burnham lands a shoulder strike.
Still in the clinch, Burnham scores with a nice short uppercut.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Burnham creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Brown wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Burnham lands a hook that snaps the head of Brown backwards.
Burnham lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Brown wants to break the clinch but can't.
Burnham controlling the action here for a moment.
Burnham lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Brown backwards.
This has been an exciting period of action!
A quick uppercut on the inside from Burnham.
Brown's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Brown wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Burnham lands a body shot.
Burnham lands a nice shot to the body.
Burnham lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Brown backwards.
Burnham is pushing Brown up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Brown tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Burnham lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Burnham has Brown pushed against the cage.
Brown will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Burnham up against the cage.
A short left from Burnham.
Burnham keeps control of Brown as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Burnham lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Burnham scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Burnham prevents a body shot from Brown.
Burnham lands a right hand that snaps the head of Brown backwards.
Burnham lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Brown backwards.
Brown is rocked!
Brown goes for a takedown attempt but Burnham pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Donk. Burnham catches Brown right on the button with a cross.
Brown is still on wobbly legs! Can Burnham finish him?
Brown walks straight into a right hand from Burnham - that's dropped him! Burnham jumps into mount and starts pounding away - can he finish?! More strikes go undefended and the referee has to dive in to save Brown from any more punishment! Brown complains about the stoppage but falls over as he tries to stand back up, so it was clearly a good stoppage.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punches). Lester Burnham!
Our winner, Lester Burnham, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.
The defeated Jay Brown had this to say: 'Maybe next time'.
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energy
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hype
A | B |
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
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