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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Jimmy Blair (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nate Nitewood (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Nate Nitewood has the eye of the tiger tonight.
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
8 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Jimmy Blair!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Nate Nitewood!
The judges for this bout are Damien Edna, Skip Squint and Steve Erwin.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Blair scores with a body shot.
Blair throws a right hand that Nitewood ducks under and follows up with a left that Nitewood also avoids with ease.
Blair throws a series of punches but Nitewood avoids them all with ease.
Nitewood defending well as Blair loads up on a big left hand.
Blair lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Nitewood circles away quickly and effectively.
Nitewood throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Nitewood bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Blair stalks Nitewood and leaps in with a furious combination of punches. Uppercuts and crosses smash into Nitewood's face. Nitewood staggers backwards, shaken.
It looks like Nate Nitewood has been cut.
Blair misses with a series of wild punches.
Nitewood motions for Blair to come forward. Nitewood throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Jimmy Blair seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Blair smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Blair lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.
Some bone on bone action there as Blair checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Blair throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Nitewood tries to work over Blair's front leg with a kick but Blair checks it.
Nitewood does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Nitewood avoids the body shot from Blair.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Blair, as that shot connected.
Nitewood moves out of range as Blair strikes.
Nitewood dodges the punch combination from Blair.
Nitewood slips a jab from Blair.
Blair scores with a nice strike.
Nitewood does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Blair misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Blair misses with a hook. Nitewood ducked under it nicely.
Nitewood swings away with a leg kick that misses.
Nitewood throws a low kick but Blair avoids it.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nitewood throws a front kick aimed at Blair's knee but Blair avoids it well.
Blair misses with a straight left.
Nitewood attempts a leg kick but it's missed by a good margin.
Blair fakes a jab and then connects with a hook.
Blair looks to land a left hand but Nitewood moved out of range nicely.
Blair fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Blair is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Blair throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Blair misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Nitewood.
Blair moves into range and connects with a jab.
Blair rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Nitewood moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Blair rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Nitewood moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Blair blocks a low kick nicely.
A punch combination from Blair misses.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nitewood tries to work over Blair's front leg with a kick but Blair checks it.
Blair will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
The fighters circling - Blair throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
A clash of legs there as Blair blocks the low kick.
Nitewood swings away with a leg kick that misses.
Blair fails to land with a series of punches.
Nitewood showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Blair.
Blair swinging wilding here.
Blair fails to land with a series of punches.
Blair will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Good work by Blair as he checks the leg kick.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Blair swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Nitewood slips a jab and a cross from Blair.
Nitewood showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Blair.
Nitewood tries to score with a low kick but Blair moves his leg out of the way.
Nitewood takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Blair missing with a left hand there. Nitewood was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Blair misses with a hook. Nitewood ducked under it nicely.
Blair swings for the body but Nitewood moves out of range.
Nitewood ducks under a wild hook from Blair.
Blair misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Nitewood.
Blair throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Jimmy Blair dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Nate Nitewood's cut.
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.
A right-left combo lands from Blair.
Nitewood ducks under a wild hook from Blair.
A clash of legs there as Blair blocks the low kick.
Nitewood gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Blair.
Nitewood ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
A combination from Blair does no damage.
Nitewood bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Blair thuds a left hand into Nitewood's body.
Nitewood tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Blair is able to avoid easily.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Blair checks a leg kick.
No joy there for Blair, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Blair lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Blair throws out a loose jab but Nitewood uses good head movement to avoid it.
Blair connects with a looping right hand.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Nitewood displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Blair throws out the jab.
Nice uppercut there from Blair.
Blair throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Blair swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Blair checks a low kick from Nitewood.
Nitewood drops his hands momentarily and Blair takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
Blair throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Jimmy Blair is winning the standup battle so far.
Nitewood tries to score with a low kick but Blair moves his leg out of the way.
Blair swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
Blair lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
Jimmy Blair is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Blair throws a nice looking combination but Nitewood bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Nitewood moves out of range as Blair strikes.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Blair thows a body shot but no joy.
Nitewood throws a chopping leg kick but Blair manages to avoid taking any serious damage.
Blair misses with a jab, cross combination.
Blair misses with an uppercut. Nitewood saw that one coming.
Nitewood swings away with a leg kick that misses.
Blair throws a right and a left that both miss.
Blair will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Blair throws a right hand that Nitewood ducks under and follows up with a left that Nitewood also avoids with ease.
A jab from Blair misses.
Blair misses with an uppercut. Nitewood saw that one coming.
Blair throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Nitewood.
Blair misses the shot to the body.
Blair misses with a two punch combination.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Blair throws a body punch but Nitewood moves out of range.
Nitewood will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Blair just misses with a punch to the body.
Nitewood throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
Nitewood throws a low kick but it's checked well by Blair.
Blair swings for the body but Nitewood moves out of range.
Blair missing with a left hand there. Nitewood was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Blair lands a nice hook to Nitewood's body. Nitewood takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Good work by Blair as he checks the leg kick.
Nitewood walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Blair checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.
Nitewood walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Blair checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.
Nitewood tries to work over Blair's front leg with a kick but Blair checks it.
Blair throws a hook but Nitewood blocks it.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
A lull in the action here being met with boos from the crowd.
Nitewood throws a low kick, looking for Blair's leg but Blair calmly moves out of range.
Blair takes a swing at Nitewood's ribcage but misses.
Blair tries to bum rush Nitewood with a series of wild strikes but Nitewood uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Blair throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Nice shot lands for Blair.
Nitewood ducks under a wild hook from Blair.
Blair throws a hook but Nitewood blocks it.
Nitewood slips a jab and a cross from Blair.
Blair throws the left hand but Nitewood avoids the punch easily.
Nitewood dodges the punch combination from Blair.
Blair missing with a left hand there. Nitewood was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Blair throws a shot from downtown. Nitewood moves away and avoids it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Jimmy Blair dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Nate Nitewood's cut.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action. So, we enter the final round. Let's see if either fighter can bring us a finish, or whether we're going to the judges scorecards.
Blair lands a really nice looking cross but Nitewood seems unphased.
Blair throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Nitewood sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Nitewood throws a front kick aimed at Blair's knee but Blair avoids it well.
Nice defenses there by Nitewood.
Blair throws a right and a left that both miss.
Blair throws a big shot that misses.
A swing and a miss from Blair.
Nitewood on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Blair scores with a sloppy right hand. Nitewood should have avoided that one.
Nitewood dodges the punch combination from Blair.
Nitewood bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Blair throws a shot from downtown. Nitewood moves away and avoids it.
Blair throws a hook to the side of Nitewood's head but Nitewood sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Blair misses with an uppercut. Nitewood saw that one coming.
A jab from Blair finds it's way through Nitewood's defenses.
Blair lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Nitewood circles away quickly and effectively.
Nitewood wants to land a leg kick but Blair is out of range.
Blair swings for the body but Nitewood moves out of range.
Blair misses with a body shot.
Nitewood misses with a low kick.
Blair throws a hook to the side of Nitewood's head but Nitewood sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Nitewood tries to score with a low kick but Blair moves his leg out of the way.
Nitewood attempts a leg kick but it's missed by a good margin.
Nitewood uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Blair.
Nitewood showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Blair.
Blair throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Blair thows a body shot but no joy.
Blair looks to land a combination but Nitewood avoids it well.
Blair throws a right and a left that Nitewood avoids nicely.
Nitewood tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Blair misses the jab.
Blair lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Blair rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Nitewood moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Blair scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Nitewood on the wrong end of a decent looking cross there.
Blair misses with a jab, cross combination.
Blair misses with a straight right.
Blair lands a nice looking body shot.
Blair will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Blair scores with a one two! Nitewood had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Blair missing with a left hand there. Nitewood was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
A left and a right from Blair both land. Nice combination.
Nitewood tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Blair is able to avoid easily.
Blair tries to bum rush Nitewood with a series of wild strikes but Nitewood uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Nitewood throws a front kick aimed at Blair's knee but Blair avoids it well.
Blair misses with an uppercut.
Nitewood finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Nitewood throws a low kick, looking for Blair's leg but Blair calmly moves out of range.
Both these guys seem content to just stand up and trade with eachother but Nitewood might want to think about changing up his gameplan a bit because over the course of the fight, Blair has got the better of the exchanges.
Blair checks the leg kick.
Nitewood slips a straight right by Blair.
Blair swings and misses with a hook to the body.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nitewood throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Blair throws the left hand but Nitewood avoids the punch easily.
Jimmy Blair is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Nitewood misses with a low kick.
Blair throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Nitewood sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Some wild striking there from Blair.
Blair takes a swing at Nitewood's ribcage but misses.
Some bone on bone action there as Blair checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Blair looks to land a combination but Nitewood avoids it well.
Blair checks a low kick from Nitewood.
Nitewood misses with a low kick.
Nitewood slips under a jab from Blair.
Nate Nitewood has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Nitewood throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
And that's the end of the fight!
Jimmy Blair showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Blair has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... 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 Damien Edna scores the fight 30:26
Judge Skip Squint scores the fight 30:27
Judge Steve Erwin scores the fight 30:27
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jimmy Blair!
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