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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Francisco Garcia (ranked 1166 p4p, 1841 weight class) and Geordi La Forge (ranked 112 p4p, 167 weight class). Garcia comes to the cage accompanied by "Can't Be Touched" av Roy Jones Jr. La Forge has chosen $UICIDEBOY$ - BURGUNDY as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Geordi La Forge has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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BJJ Purple Belt
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Francisco Garcia!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Geordi La Forge!
The judges for this bout are Robert Twigg, Stewart Dunkirk and Alan Glass.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Garcia darts in looking for a takedown but La Forge gets double underhooks and turns Garcia into the cage.
La Forge breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Garcia dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Garcia moves out of range of the body kick from La Forge.
La Forge looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
La Forge has his head snapped back a nice jab. A little nod from La Forge there as he acknowledges the shot.
La Forge uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Garcia.
La Forge feints a counter leg kick.
Garcia will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Garcia defending well as La Forge loads up on a big left hand.
La Forge throws a shot from downtown. Garcia moves away and avoids it.
Garcia avoids a kick to the body.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Garcia scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
La Forge tries to buck Garcia off but Garcia is having none of it.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
La Forge is not content to let Garcia control the position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
That's one minute gone in the round.
La Forge tries to buck Garcia off but Garcia is having none of it.
Garcia trying to control the position but La Forge is working away.
Garcia working hard here to secure a kimura but he's not really in the right position for it.
La Forge is looking to reverse the position.
Garcia remains in side control and seems content to stay there. It's a versatile position from which he can work both strikes and submissions, whilst maintaining that control, so maybe he'll sit here for a while.
La Forge can't do much from the bottom here.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Garcia looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
La Forge is looking to reverse the position.
Garcia is trying to get an arm triangle but La Forge is defending well.
La Forge tries to buck Garcia off but Garcia is having none of it.
Garcia goes for an armbar! This could be all over! Wait, no, La Forge rolls with the submission and now he's on top in Garcia's guard! Nice work there by La Forge!
La Forge is stalling in the full guard.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Garcia wants to control here, rather than go for any submissions from the bottom. At least for now.
La Forge wants to control from the top but Garcia keeps moving.
Garcia pulls La Forge in to control the position.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
La Forge avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
La Forge wants to pass the guard but Garcia is keeping the position.
Garcia wants to sweep here but La Forge controlling him for the moment.
Boooooooooooooooooooo!!! God, this has been a terrible round. Come on you two, sort yourselves out!
La Forge trying to control the position from guard on top but Garcia is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
The referee has stepped in and called for a break in the action. We'll restart on the feet.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.
That was a close round but I would say that Francisco Garcia will probably get the nod.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.
Garcia works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Garcia throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Garcia gets a double leg takedown into La Forge's guard.
Garcia passes La Forge's left leg - he's now in half guard.
La Forge regains full guard. Nicely done.
La Forge looking to sweep using the butterfly guard but Garcia puts pay to that idea as he passes nicely into half guard.
Garcia is thwarting La Forge's attempts to control the position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Garcia is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
La Forge is looking for a sweep. Garcia is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
That's one minute gone in the round.
La Forge makes his way to full guard. A much better position for La Forge.
La Forge looking to control but Garcia passes into half guard.
Garcia perhaps working for something from half guard, or maybe not. It looks like he's just sitting there.
Garcia wants to pass to mount but La Forge is defending the position.
Garcia wants to control but La Forge is keeping him busy.
La Forge is looking to regain full guard. He's left an arm up in the air though and Garcia has latched onto it... Big trouble! Garcia pivots for an armbar - it's in tight and it La Forge is tapping in no time flat! Great counter grappling there from Garcia!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:55 of round 2, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Francisco Garcia!
Francisco Garcia is the new featherweight champion!
Francisco Garcia decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.
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hype
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pop
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