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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Dave Ashbourne Jr (ranked 469 p4p, 1600 weight class) and Shane O Malley (ranked 55 p4p, 175 weight class). Ashbourne Jr comes to the cage accompanied by Vertical Horizon - You're A God. O Malley has chosen Someone Like Me - by: Jon Connor as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Good wrestling
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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 15 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Dave Ashbourne Jr!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 8 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Shane O Malley!
The judges for this bout are James Glass, Steven Brown and Chris Edwards.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
O Malley misses with a leg kick
and O Malley takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
O Malley misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Ashbourne Jr.
O Malley misses with an uppercut
and Ashbourne Jr counters with a straight right hand.
O Malley throws a two punch combo that lands nicely.
Ashbourne Jr closes the distance and pushes O Malley back into the cage.
Ashbourne Jr misses with a knee strike.
O Malley throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Ashbourne Jr lands a hook that snaps the head of O Malley backwards.
O Malley told us before the fight that he's been working on his elbows. An under utilised technique these days - let's see if it can sway the outcome of the fight.
O Malley lands a damaging elbow.
O Malley misses with an elbow strike.
O Malley lands with a right to the head.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
O Malley is working Ashbourne Jr over against the cage.
O Malley wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
A quick uppercut on the inside from O Malley.
O Malley letting Ashbourne Jr take a breather here.
Ashbourne Jr wants to stall.
Ashbourne Jr works on O Malley's body with a couple of short punches.
That's one minute gone in the round.
O Malley lands a right uppercut that snaps the head of Ashbourne Jr backwards.
The referee calls for Ashbourne Jr to work.
O Malley scores with a shoulder strike.
Ashbourne Jr manages to break the clinch.
Ashbourne Jr lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
O Malley missing with a left hand there. Ashbourne Jr was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
O Malley misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
O Malley throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Ashbourne Jr counters with a nice body shot.
Ashbourne Jr throws a body punch but O Malley moves out of range.
Nice cross by Ashbourne Jr.
O Malley goes for a high kick. It partially lands.
O Malley dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Ashbourne Jr takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor.
O Malley moves away from the strike by Ashbourne Jr.
O Malley lands a really nice looking cross but Ashbourne Jr seems unphased.
O Malley throws a big shot that misses.
An attempted straight right counter from Ashbourne Jr misses the target.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Ashbourne Jr clinches with his opponent.
Ashbourne Jr slowing the pace effectively.
O Malley working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Ashbourne Jr dodges an elbow strike from O Malley.
O Malley breaks the clinch.
O Malley listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
O Malley moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Ashbourne Jr is rocked!
Dave Ashbourne Jr is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
O Malley shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. O Malley showed some decent athleticism there.
Ashbourne Jr scrambles, trying to get to his feet, but O Malley manages to mount him!
Oh Ashbourne Jr is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Ashbourne Jr takes a big shot to the dome and his eyes have rolled back in his head! O Malley's killer instinct has kicked in as he finishes the fight with more strikes. Impressive finish.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Shane O Malley!
Shane O Malley spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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RATING
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