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Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Stevie Hanselman (ranked 847 p4p, 313 weight class) and Phil Sprintin (ranked 59 p4p, 21 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Sprintin's choice of entrance music: Disturbed - Bad Man. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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Solid boxing
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 8 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Stevie Hanselman!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 14 - 3 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Phil Sprintin!
The judges for this bout are Alan Glass, George Francis and Frank Dennis.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hanselman displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Sprintin throws out the jab.
Sprintin uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Hanselman.
Sprintin throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Sprintin throws a head kick but Hanselman moves out of range.
A good leg kick by Sprintin.
Hanselman misses with a straight left.
Sprintin swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Sprintin throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Hanselman takes a swing at Sprintin's ribcage but misses.
Sprintin throws a shot to the body.
Sprintin scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Hanselman doesn't seem bothered though.
Sprintin misses with a series of wild punches.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Hanselman will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Hanselman misses with a double jab
and Sprintin counters with a left to the body.
A punch combination from Hanselman misses.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Hanselman misses with a hook.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Hanselman scores with a nice right hand.
Sprintin misses with a looping left.
Sprintin looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Sprintin, as that shot connected.
Hanselman defending well as Sprintin loads up on a big left hand.
Sprintin misses with a hook.
Sprintin bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Hanselman's head backwards.
Sprintin misses with a hook. Hanselman ducked under it nicely.
Sprintin feints and then cracks Hanselman's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Hanselman down.
Sprintin throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Hanselman gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Hanselman blocks a low kick nicely.
Sprintin tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Hanselman misses with a double jab.
Sprintin misses the jab.
Hanselman shoots in and gets a takedown into Sprintin's guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hanselman is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.
Hanselman scoring with punches to the head and body.
Hanselman sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Sprintin's guard.
Hanselman has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Sprintin is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Sprintin keeping control of the leg, stopping his opponent passing to mount.
Hanselman scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Hanselman takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
Sprintin keeps control of the position for the meantime.
Hanselman looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Sprintin wants to get back to full guard.
Hanselman is keen to just control but Sprintin is a slippery customer.
Sprintin slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
Sprintin looking to hit a scissor sweep but Hanselman is one step ahead there.
Hanselman postures up.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sprintin pulls Hanselman in to control the position.
Sprintin looking to hit a scissor sweep but Hanselman is one step ahead there.
Hanselman lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Hanselman stopping the sweep attempt from Sprintin.
Hanselman postures up.
Hanselman postures up and lands a big shot to Sprintin's brow.
Hanselman trying to control the position from guard on top but Sprintin is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Hanselman postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Hanselman postures up and lands a big shot to Sprintin's brow.
Sprintin wants to hit a sweep here but Hanselman passes into full mount! Oh no, disaster for Sprintin there!
We've been hearing that Hanselman has been drilling a lot of ground and pound in training, so let's see if he get the finish.
Sprintin tries to get back to half guard but can't.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
A nice elbow there by Hanselman.
Sprintin tries to reverse the position but Hanselman maintains control.
Sprintin tries to hold on but Hanselman pushes him away.
Both fighters have adopted an aggressive gameplan on the ground!
Sprintin is looking to get to half guard.
Hanselman breaks from Sprintin's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Hanselman lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Hanselman with a couple of short strikes.
Hanselman looking to finish Sprintin with some ground and pound. This is bad for Sprintin!
Sprintin working to try and regain half guard.
Hanselman trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Sprintin tries to hold on but Hanselman postures up.
Hanselman dominating with strikes here.
Sprintin bucks up and manages to get a nice reversal! He's in guard on the top - nicely done!
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Sprintin stopping the sweep attempt from Hanselman.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.
Stevie Hanselman dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!
Hanselman with a lazy takedown attempt
and Sprintin counters with a thumping low kick.
Hanselman steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Sprintin.
Sprintin throws out a loose jab but Hanselman uses good head movement to avoid it.
Sprintin misses with a straight right.
Sprintin comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Hanselman tries to bum rush Sprintin with a series of wild strikes but Sprintin uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
As Hanselman backs off Sprintin throws a huge counter combo but Hanselman manages to avoid it all.
Hanselman throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Sprintin ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Hanselman moves away.
Sprintin has tried to improve his agility in the runup to this fight.
Hanselman has a takedown stuffed.
A low kick from Sprintin is predictable there
and Hanselman counters with a takedown into side control.
Sprintin can't do much from the bottom here.
Hanselman is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Sprintin can do to turn this around?
Hanselman tries to advance to mount but Sprintin denies him.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Hanselman trying to control the position but Sprintin is working away.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Sprintin taking punishment in the form of punches.
Hanselman working away.
Hanselman in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
Sprintin manages to get one leg in to regain half guard.
Sprintin regains full guard. Nicely done.
Sprintin keeping full guard, as Hanselman tries to pass.
Sprintin trying to control the position.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Hanselman postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Hanselman trying to control the position from guard on top but Sprintin is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Hanselman works a leg free and moves into half guard.
Hanselman takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sprintin is trying to maintain the position but Hanselman is very close to passing his half guard.
Hanselman uses his free foot to push down on Sprintin's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Sprintin.
Stevie Hanselman overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Sprintin is desperately trying to improve his position but Hanselman has a good base and remains in mount.
Hanselman raining down shots from the mount!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Hanselman cracks Sprintin with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Hanselman landing punches.
Sprintin sneaks a leg back under and regains half guard and is working straight away to try and get back to guard. He hasn't managed just yet though.
Sprintin trying to control here.
Sprintin is refusing to be controlled, as Hanselman sits in half guard.
Hanselman trying to mount his opponent but Sprintin defends it.
Sprintin is controlling Hanselman's trapped leg to prevent Hanselman from advancing to side control.
Sprintin taking some punishment here, with Hanselman in his half guard.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hanselman is looking to advance position but Sprintin won't allow it.
Sprintin wants to control but Hanselman is keeping busy and won't allow it.
Ground and pound from Hanselman.
Sprintin trying to control here.
Sprintin might have to switch it up a bit here because his efforts to control Hanselman haven't been going to plan, at least at the current moment in time.
Hanselman is thinking about going for an arm triangle but he can't free his leg.
Sprintin on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Hanselman working the head and body with strikes.
Hanselman is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
The two fighters exchange a few words. I couldn't hear what they were saying but maybe it's more fun if you make it up yourself. Hanselman connects with a nice short shot to Sprintin's temple.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sprintin keeps control of the position for the meantime.
Hanselman working over Sprintin with some ground and pound. Sprintin looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
Sprintin is doing well to control the position and prevent Hanselman from advancing to side control.
Sprintin tries to get to full guard but Hanselman has control of the leg.
Sprintin gets full guard.
Sprintin looking to hit a scissor sweep but Hanselman is one step ahead there.
Hanselman lands a couple of elbows.
Hanselman scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Sprintin is controlling Hanselman's posture.
Hanselman distracts Sprintin with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Sprintin keeping full guard, as Hanselman tries to pass.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.
Stevie Hanselman dominated that second round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! This is the final round!
Sprintin looks to throw the jab but Hanselman is out of range.
Hanselman misses with a telegraphed body shot
and Sprintin counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Hanselman thinking.
Hanselman uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Sprintin.
A shot to the body from Hanselman misses
and Sprintin counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Hanselman takes one on the button.
Hanselman wings a very wild body shot but it does the job and lands to the midsection.
Hanselman misses the shot to the body.
Hanselman blocks a head kick by Sprintin.
Hanselman lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Sprintin punishes Hanselman's body with a nice straight punch.
Hanselman swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Sprintin counters with a nice body shot.
Sprintin cracks Hanselman with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Hanselman moves out of range as Sprintin strikes.
Sprintin throws a jab when Hanselman was well out of range.
Sprintin rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Hanselman counters with a nice double leg into guard.
Hanselman working some strikes from top position.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Sprintin bucks up whilst keeping hold of a body lock, managing to reverse the position. Now he's in top in Hanselman's guard.
Hanselman looking to hit a scissor sweep but Sprintin is one step ahead there.
Hanselman is working hard here to advance position.
Sprintin sitting in guard here, content to control.
Sprintin must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.
Sprintin passes into half guard.
Sprintin looking to pass the half guard. Not this time.
Hanselman is in trouble now - Sprintin has advanced to mount!
Sprintin tries to control but Hanselman wriggling away.
Hanselman really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hanselman is controlling an arm, preventing Sprintin from taking his back. Although keeping him in mount is no better to be honest.
Sprintin takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
Sprintin trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Hanselman is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Sprintin controlling the pace for now.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hanselman wants to control but Sprintin is having none of it.
Sprintin controlling the pace for now.
Sprintin trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Sprintin sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Hanselman is desperately trying to improve his position but Sprintin has a good base and remains in mount.
Sprintin controlling the pace for now.
Sprintin is continuing to stall.
Sprintin seems to be looking to move to his opponent's back but Hanselman is holding on tight.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Hanselman can't escape the position.
Sprintin is looking to secure an arm. He's managed it! He's pivoting for an armbar - that looks tight! But Hanselman has managed to get out of it and now he's in a dominant position. Nice work from Hanselman!
Sprintin is trying to keep Hanselman in close.
Sprintin tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Hanselman landing some decent shots from guard.
Hanselman landing with the ground and pound.
Hanselman scoring with some ground and pound.
Sprintin is working an open guard here, looking to improve his position. No doubt that will leave him open to counters but at least he's being more offensive.
Sprintin is still trying to improve position.
Stevie Hanselman is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Sprintin has control of Hanselman's left arm, preventing Hanselman from doing any damage.
And that's the end of the fight!
Phil Sprintin comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Hanselman has won this one but let's see what the judges have to say. 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 Alan Glass scores the fight 29:28
Judge George Francis scores the fight 29:28
Judge Frank Dennis scores the fight 29:28
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Stevie Hanselman!
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