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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Panagiotis Nikolau (ranked 534 p4p, 896 weight class) and Cathal Doherty (ranked 89 p4p, 145 weight class). Doherty has chosen Jeremy- Pearl Jam as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the light heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Panagiotis Nikolau!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Cathal Doherty!
The judges for this bout are William Gold, Richard Clark and Colin Fotheringham.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Doherty misses with a hook
and Nikolau counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
It looks like Cathal Doherty has been cut.
Doherty fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
Doherty staying out of range there.
Doherty looked like he wanted to counter with a punch but didn't throw it.
Doherty misses with a straight right.
A quick step to the side and Nikolau tries to counter with a shot to the body but it doesn't connect.
Doherty on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Nikolau gets cracked there but stands up to it.
Doherty with a nice cross.
Nikolau throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
A low kick from Nikolau misses
and Nikolau takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Doherty looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Doherty swings for the body but Nikolau moves out of range.
It looked like Nikolau wanted to counter with a hook but didn't fully commit.
Nikolau throws out a powerful jab.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Doherty uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Nikolau.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Nikolau takes one on the button.
Doherty lands with an overhand left.
Doherty misses with a left hand
and Nikolau counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Nikolau drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles.
Doherty cracks Nikolau with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
Doherty punishes Nikolau's body with a nice straight punch.
Doherty lands the left hand.
Doherty ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Doherty takes a swing at Nikolau's ribcage but misses.
A big right from Doherty misses.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Doherty pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Nikolau is looking for a counter combo.
Doherty misses with a right hand
and Nikolau counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Doherty missing with a left hand there. Nikolau was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Nikolau lands a nice looking body kick.
Nikolau darts in and clinches Doherty up against the cage.
Nikolau lands a shot to the body.
Doherty tries to circle away but Nikolau has him pinned against the cage.
Nikolau lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Nikolau misses with a hook from the clinch.
Nikolau misses with a hook to the ribs.
Nikolau misses with a hook from the clinch.
Nikolau can't find room to land a body shot as Doherty controls the action.
Nikolau scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Nikolau softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Nikolau misses with a punch to the body.
Nikolau misses with a hook to the ribs.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Doherty blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Nikolau prevents Doherty from breaking the clinch.
Doherty wants to get back to striking at distance but Nikolau won't allow it.
Nikolau lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Nikolau.
Doherty tries to break free but Nikolau pushes him back against the cage.
Doherty breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Nikolau takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Doherty looks to land a left hand but Nikolau moved out of range nicely.
Nikolau throws a big counter combination but Doherty scrambles out of danger and avoids any damage.
Doherty misses with a straight right.
Doherty is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Nikolau had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into mush.
Nikolau bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
A little feinted left hand from Nikolau on the counter but he doesn't commit to it.
Nikolau uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Doherty.
An attempted straight right counter from Nikolau misses the target.
Doherty throws a poor cross that misses
and Nikolau counters with a crisp right hand that drops Doherty! Nikolau lets Doherty back up to his feet, looking for a finish!
Doherty is rocked!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Nikolau lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Doherty throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Nikolau sees it coming and avoids it easily.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Doherty throws the left hand but Nikolau avoids the punch easily.
Doherty lands a right hook to the body.
Nikolau walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Sloppy strikes from Doherty. Those never looked like landing.
Nikolau is looking to counter punch.
Nikolau needs to keep his hands up - Doherty had a free shot at his head there.
Nikolau avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Nikolau is looking for a counter combo.
Doherty throws a nice looking combination but Nikolau bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Doherty misses with a lunging right hand
and Nikolau counters with a nice leg kick.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Nikolau walks forward and throws a big overhand right! Doherty drops to the floor like a sack of potatoes! Nikolau swarms on him with more punches until the referee wrestles him away from Doherty's unconscious body! Wow, that was brutal!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Panagiotis Nikolau!
Panagiotis Nikolau retains his light heavyweight title!
A victorious Panagiotis Nikolau thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.
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