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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Harrison Kiely (ranked 106 p4p, 1187 weight class) and Simon Cross (ranked 21 p4p, 142 weight class). Kiely comes to the cage accompanied by Swan Song. Cross has chosen Irregular God as his entrance music. Harrison Kiely has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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BJJ Red Belt
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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Decent boxing
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 16 - 5 - 0, fighting out of London, Harrison Kiely!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 10 - 13 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Simon Cross!
The judges for this bout are William Peck, Dillan Fox and Gregory Folan.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Cross with a poor takedown
and Kiely counters with a straight right hand.
Kiely stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and Kiely wants it to stay on the feet.
Kiely scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Kiely sizes up Cross with a pawing jab and scores with a straight right down the middle.
Cross shoots in looking for a double leg takedown. Kiely defends it nicely.
Harrison Kiely has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Simon Cross.
Cross tries to shoot in for a takedown. He's got hold of a leg but Kiely swivels and escapes.
Kiely throws a big shot that misses.
Cross moves out of range as Kiely strikes.
Kiely with a hook.
Kiely slips in close and lands a nice hook before moving back out of range.
Cross takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Cross slips under a jab.
Cross is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.
Kiely looks to have improved his striking defense since last time we saw him fight.
Kiely is using his height advantage well here, landing a good percentage of his punches.
Kiely misses with a two punch combination.
Kiely is using his reach advantage well here, landing the more effective single shots from range.
Cross shoots in looking for a takedown. Kiely tries to sprawl out of it but Cross keeps driving through. The fighters are pinned against the cage. Kiely manages to get underhooks and after a bit of a struggle, circles away and we're back to standing.
Kiely lands with a cross.
Cross shoots in for a takedown but Kiely shows good takedown defense.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Sloppy strikes from Kiely. Those never looked like landing.
Cross slips under a jab.
Kiely goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
Cross uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Kiely.
Cross doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Kiely counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Cross fails to land the takedown.
Simon Cross seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Kiely works over Cross's head and body with a nice combination.
Good shot there by Kiely.
Kiely stuffs the takedown attempt from Cross. Cross gets slowly back to his feet.
Cross showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Kiely.
Cross fails to land the takedown.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Cross gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
letting Kiely counter with a right hand.
Kiely lands a head shot.
Kiely is really peppering his opponent's head with punches.
Cross with a lazy takedown attempt
and Kiely connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Cross fails with a takedown attempt.
Cross shoots in for a takedown but Kiely shows good takedown defense.
Cross walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Harrison Kiely is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Kiely swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Cross.
Cross throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Kiely's waist but Kiely gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Cross off to one side.
Cross moves out of range as Kiely strikes.
Nice shot lands for Kiely.
Cross fails with the takedown.
Kiely seem to be loading up, looking for a big counter.
Kiely lands with a straight right. Cross didn't see that one coming.
Cross gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily
and Kiely counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Kiely scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Kiely is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Kiely misses with a looping right.
Kiely connects with a single shot there.
Cross tries to score a power double leg takedown but Kiely sees that one coming and sprawls well. That will dishearten Cross somewhat.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cross moves out of range of the strikes.
Cross closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.
Kiely swinging wildly here.
Cross bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Kiely lands a nice hook to Cross's body. Cross takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Kiely gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Kiely looking to control the pace of the fight rather than finish it.
Kiely lands a beautiful sweep and he's now moved into his opponent's guard.
Our spies down at at Vancouver Island Fight Club inform us that Cross has really been working on his submissions in the buildup to this fight. Will it pay off?
Kiely avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Kiely avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Kiely advances position into side control!
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Cross tries to bench press Kiely off him but Kiely keeps the position.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Kiely moves into full mount!
Kiely tries to control but Cross wriggling away.
Cross is looking to improve his position but Kiely isn't that keen on the idea.
Kiely wants to control the pace but Cross is squirming around nicely.
Cross is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
The crowd applaud the fighters' efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Kiely looking to control but Cross is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.
Harrison Kiely dominated that round.
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.
Cross steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Kiely.
A punch combination from Kiely misses.
Cross drops down looking to force a counter takedown but Kiely defends it well.
A combination from Kiely does no damage.
Cross with the counter takedown but Kiely avoids it easily.
Cross fails with the takedown.
Cross fails with the takedown.
Cross tries to score a power double leg takedown but Kiely sees that one coming and sprawls well. That will dishearten Cross somewhat.
Harrison Kiely has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Simon Cross.
Kiely throws a two punch combo that lands nicely.
Kiely stuffs the takedown attempt from Cross. Cross gets slowly back to his feet.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Kiely stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and Kiely wants it to stay on the feet.
Kiely scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Cross doesn't react quick enough there as he takes a shot to the body.
Harrison Kiely is winning the standup battle so far.
Nice uppercut there from Kiely.
Kiely fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Cross with a lazy takedown attempt
and Kiely counters with a left and a right that stings Cross.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Kiely, as that shot connected.
Harrison Kiely is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Cross fails to land the takedown.
Cross blocks a jab.
Kiely catches Cross with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Kiely misses with the combination.
Kiely jabs Cross right on the nose. Cross blinks but takes it well.
Cross is rocked!
Kiely misses with a few strikes there.
Cross has his takedown stuffed
and Kiely counters with a three punch combination, finished off with a leg kick. Nice work.
Cross is still on wobbly legs! Can Kiely finish him?
Cross looks up at the clock. Bad move! Kiely lands a right hand from hell, dropping Cross. Kiely pounces and finishes the fight with a flurry of punches and elbows.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:43 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Harrison Kiely!
Harrison Kiely retains his heavyweight title!
Our winner, Harrison Kiely, made sure he spent some time buttering up the crowd during his post fight interview, which will no doubt bring him a few more fans.
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hype
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