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Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Maxim Menshikov (ranked 1142 p4p, 443 weight class) and Yago Nascimento (ranked 53 p4p, 21 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Nascimento's choice of entrance music: Aggressive War Epic Music Collection!. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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33 - 26 - 0 |
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22 - 10 - 0 |
BJJ Brown Belt
World class MT
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Olympic wrestler
World class MT
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 33 - 26 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Maxim Menshikov!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Yago Nascimento!
The judges for this bout are John Mangel, Darius Henderson and Ben Hemmingworth.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Menshikov throws a good cross that connects.
Nascimento throws a hook but Menshikov blocks it.
Menshikov throwing a counter right hand but Nascimento manages to avoid it.
Menshikov misses with the combination.
Menshikov on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Menshikov rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Nascimento counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Nascimento scores with a jab. Menshikov acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Nascimento misses with an uppercut. Menshikov saw that one coming.
Nascimento drops Menshikov with a big left hand and mounts him. Menshikov is in big trouble!
Menshikov is rocked!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Menshikov is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Menshikov takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Oh Menshikov is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Menshikov wants to hold on but Nascimento pushes him away.
Menshikov seems to have got his legs back now.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Nascimento controlling the pace for now.
Menshikov is trying to escape the mount.
Nascimento landing strikes from the mount.
Poor strikes thrown by Nascimento there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Menshikov is looking to improve his position but Nascimento isn't that keen on the idea.
Nascimento lands with some strikes.
Nascimento throwing strikes here but Menshikov is writhing around nicely and avoiding any serious damage.
Menshikov taking shots to the head.
Nascimento throwing shots from mount but they're not landing.
Nascimento with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
Menshikov avoids a series of strikes thrown by Nascimento.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nascimento throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Nascimento with the ground and pound from mount.
Poor strikes thrown by Nascimento there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Nascimento throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Nascimento misses with a head shot.
Menshikov can't escape the position.
Nascimento lands a big elbow.
Menshikov is trying to escape the mount.
Nascimento content just to control the position here.
Menshikov is desperately trying to improve his position but Nascimento has a good base and remains in mount.
Nascimento pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Nascimento cracks Menshikov with a big head shot that has him covering up instantly! He's rolled onto his side and the referee has seen enough - this one is aaaaaaaaaaall over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Yago Nascimento!
Our winner, Yago Nascimento, 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.
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energy
A | B |
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
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