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Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tyrone Graves (ranked 330 p4p, 290 weight class) and Jarrod Beard (ranked 19 p4p, 17 weight class). Beard has chosen Ladies Love Country Boys - Trace Adkins as his entrance music. Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!
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22 - 19 - 0 |
Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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Olympic wrestler
World class MT
Powerful |
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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 17 - 7 - 1, fighting out of New York, Tyrone Graves!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 19 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jarrod Beard!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Percy O'Donnell and Jack Bonds.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Graves darts in and clinches Beard up against the cage.
Graves tries to work over Beard's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Graves presses Beard against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
A nice right hand lands inside from Graves.
Graves lands an elbow inside that Beard shrugs off.
Beard dodges an elbow strike from Graves.
Graves stalls.
Graves is stalling here. The referee will be looking to step in if he doesn't pick up the pace.
Beard blocks a body shot from Graves.
Graves is trying to stall.
Beard blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Beard has picked Graves up - he's going for a ride! Beard dumps his opponent to the mat with a thud and settles into half guard.
Graves manages to get to full guard.
Beard pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Graves is keeping the position for now.
Both fighters have adopted an aggressive gameplan on the ground!
Graves trying to control the position here.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Graves is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.
Beard is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
Graves takes a deep breath and rests his weight momentarily on top of his opponent, to control the position.
Graves looking to pass the half guard. Not this time.
Well, if Graves is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight� I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza� Yum. Can't wait.
Graves has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Beard won't allow Graves to pass to mount.
Beard looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Graves stalling.
Graves's ground tactics aren't going to win him many fans. Let's hope he's got fireworks for us if he gets back to his feet because he's not doing much on the ground.
Graves wants to get back to his feet.
Graves is trying to control. Beard wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Graves is looking to advance position but Beard won't allow it.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Beard wants to control but Graves is keeping busy.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Beard wants to get back to full guard.
Beard has his hands clasped together around Graves's back. He's all about the action.
The ref stands the fighters back up due to a lack of activity.
Graves leaves Beard with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
Beard lands an overhand right.
Beard tries for a takedown but Graves circles away easily
and Graves counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Beard thinking.
Beard just misses with a punch to the body.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Beard with a poor takedown
and Graves counters with a low kick, right behind Beard 's knee.
Tyrone Graves has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Jarrod Beard.
Graves clinches with his opponent.
Graves presses Beard against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Graves stops a takedown attempt from Beard.
Beard looks winded!
Graves lands a body shot.
Graves presses Beard against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Graves gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Graves gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
It looks like Jarrod Beard has been cut.
Graves dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Beard being controlled against the cage.
This has been an exciting period of action!
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
Graves misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Graves lands a body punch in the clinch.
Graves's corner are urging him to control the action in the clinch for a moment, rather than mount any serious offense. I'm sure the crowd appreciate those instructions... not.
Graves scores with a nice hook to the head.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.
Tyrone Graves dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Jarrod Beard's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!
Beard misses with a takedown
and Graves counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Beard misses the body punch
and Graves counters with a thumping low kick.
Graves throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
Graves scores with a sloppy right hand. Beard should have avoided that one.
Graves cracks Beard with a big right hand that sends him crashing to the floor. Graves has the opportunity to follow him to the ground but instead he's beckoning Beard to stand back up!
Beard is rocked!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Beard misses with a takedown
and Graves counters by clinching up.
Graves lands with a short punch from the clinch.
Beard is still on wobbly legs! Can Graves finish him?
Graves creates some distance for himself and unleashes a massive uppercut that sends Beard's eyes rolling into the back of his head! Beard drops to his knees and Graves pours it on with more strikes until the referee steps in to end the bout!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:59 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Tyrone Graves!
Tyrone Graves thanked the fans post fight for their support.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
RATING
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