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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between John Edmonds (ranked 1352 p4p, 1431 weight class) and Rich Mahogany (ranked 168 p4p, 177 weight class). Edmonds's entrance music is Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus. A fine choice. Mahogany has chosen Litty as his entrance music. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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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 37 - 29 - 2, fighting out of Las Vegas, John Edmonds!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 16 - 24 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Rich Mahogany!
The judges for this bout are Albert Achterberg, Wagner Zegers and Paul Aken.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mahogany feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Edmonds seems to have improved his submission grappling technique since last time we saw him. Let's see if he can pull off a submission.
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
Edmonds working from the bottom, still in full guard. He's managed to get a loose triangle. Mahogany doesn't seem to be doing much to defend here, obviously he feels comfortable in the position. Mahogany manages to throw the legs off his shoulder and he's back into guard - no problem.
Mahogany throwing strikes from guard but Edmonds blocks nicely.
Edmonds is trying to control the position but Mahogany postures up.
Edmonds looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Mahogany drops back for a leg! It's a sloppy attempt though and Mahogany jumps back into guard quickly, to retain the dominant position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Mahogany preventing the sweep.
Edmonds is looking to cinch up a triangle. Mahogany throws the leg off to one side though and gets in tight to Edmonds's body to avoid the submission. Edmonds has instead reached around Mahogany's neck and now has a guillotine! Oh, this is biiiig trouble! Edmonds arches his back and squeezes and forces the tap from his hapless opponent.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:55 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). John Edmonds!
During a confident post fight interview, John Edmonds thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
Rich Mahogany spoke after the fight, saying 'Congratulations Pice O'Xit. You were a hell of an opponent. I will go home and take solace in my many leatherbound volumes.'.
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