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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ed Bravo (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jeremy Walters (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.
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190 lbs
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195 lbs
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BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Ed Bravo!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Jeremy Walters!
The judges for this bout are Saam Ante, Aafke Stam and Paul Aken.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Walters shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Walters was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Walters controlling from mount.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Bravo tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Walters content just to control the position here.
Bravo throwing hammer fists to the chest of Walters. What's that going to do exactly?
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Walters takes a little breather and maintains the position. The referee will be looking for him to stay active from such a dominant position though.
I looks like Walters might be adopting somewhat of a lay and pray gameplan here, which I'm sure won't go down too well with the paying fans in attendance... Or the ring announcers come to think of it.
Bravo slips a leg in and gets back to half guard.
Walters is sneakily working for an arm triangle but Bravo sees it coming and defends easily.
Bravo tries to strike from the bottom but it doesn't land.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Bravo is defending against the submission attempts here by Walters.
Walters content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
Bravo missing with punches from the bottom.
Walters is looking for a kimura. It's going to be difficult to finish that from half guard though and Bravo defends it well.
Walters looks gassed!
Bravo throws a strike from the bottom that misses.
Bravo tries to strike from the bottom but it doesn't land.
The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Bravo gets caught on his heels momentarily as he allows Walters to score an easy takedown into full guard.
Walters controls from within his opponent's guard.
Bravo striking off his back but it's not causing Walters any problems.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Bravo trying to punch from his back but it's not doing any damage.
Bravo throws some sloppy strikes off his back.
Walters trying to control but Bravo is working from the bottom.
Bravo tries to strike from the bottom.
Bravo trying to punch from his back but it's not doing any damage.
Bravo trying to strike off his back.
It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.
Bravo scoring well with a low kick there.
Bravo is looking to land body kicks.
Bravo wants to land a leg kick but Walters is out of range.
Walters takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.
Walters fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Bravo misses with a low kick.
Bravo throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Bravo throws a leg kick which misses Walters's front leg but catches the back leg as Walters tries to avoid it.
Bravo lands with a thumping leg kick.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Walters blocks a low kick nicely.
Bravo walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Walters checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.
Bravo really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Bravo feints and then cracks Walters's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Walters down.
Bravo buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Some bone on bone action there as Walters checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Bravo buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Bravo scores with a nice body kick.
Bravo tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Walters is able to avoid easily.
Bravo lands a slapping body shot.
Walters stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Bravo.
Bravo throws a feint and then finishes with a kick to the body.
Bravo pivots, looking for a leg kick but Walters is out of range and Bravo settles back down.
A shot to de liver by Bravo. Beautiful body shot.
Bravo scores with a leg kick.
Bravo digs a good hook to Walters's body.
Bravo dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Bravo swings wildly with a hook that is half blocked by Walters.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Bravo lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Bravo buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Walters checks a leg kick nicely.
Good leg kick by Bravo there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Walters sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Bravo tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Bravo lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Bravo lands a head kick!
Bravo is looking to slow Walters down with leg kicks.
Bravo lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Walters at a distance.
Bravo explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Bravo throws a leg kick but Walters sees it coming and moves out of range.
The sound of bone on bone echoes around the arena as Walters checks a leg kick.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Bravo, right into the meat.
Walters tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Bravo changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Bravo buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Ed Bravo dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!
Nice uppercut there from Bravo.
Bravo throws and low kick but Walters moves out of range easily.
Walters takes a kick to the side of the head.
Bravo lets loose with a powerful body kick. Walters will feel that in the morning.
Bravo misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Bravo attempts a low kick but it misses it's target.
Walters's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Bravo lands a slapping body shot.
Walters takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Walters shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Bravo as he avoids it easily.
Walters looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into mount! Oh, that's bad for Bravo!
Bravo flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Bravo really trying hard to get back to half guard here.
Walters controlling the position easily from mount.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Bravo working to try and regain half guard.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Bravo flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Walters sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Bravo prevents Walters from taking his back.
Bravo is trying to escape the mount.
Walters has control of Bravo's right arm, working for a kimura. It's a bit of a token attempt though and Bravo regains control of the situation pretty easily.
Bravo throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Walters trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Walters is in a good position here but he's just trying to control... And he's not even managing to do that successfully.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are hurling abuse towards the fighters... You can hardly blame them though because there isn't a lot going on in the fight.
Walters blocks Bravo's feeble attempts to strike from the bottom.
Walters content just to control the position here.
Walters trying to control but Bravo is having none of it.
Bravo throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Walters controlling the position easily from mount.
Bravo swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Walters content just to control the position here.
Bravo flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bravo swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Bravo is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Walters tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Let's hope that Walters has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.
Bravo is trying to escape the mount.
Walters controlling the pace for now.
Despite being in the dominant position, Jeremy Walters just isn't active enough and the referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Bravo feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Walters's calf.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Bravo lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
Walters blocks a leg kick.
Bravo misses with a low kick.
Bravo dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Bravo scores with a leg kick.
Walters looks for a takedown. He's got it. We're now in half guard.
Walters blocks the strikes from Bravo.
Walters controlling the action here.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Jeremy Walters showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action! This is the final round!
Bravo throws a leg kick but Walters moved away.
Bravo throws a nice inside leg kick.
Bravo connects with a high kick.
An inside leg kick from Bravo misses.
Ed Bravo seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Walters shoots in from a long way out. He's driving through with the takedown attempt and he eventually gets it, landing in Bravo's guard.
Bravo tries to strike from the bottom.
Bravo can't do much from the bottom at the moment, as Walters controls the pace.
Walters wants to control from the top but Bravo keeps moving.
Bravo trying to strike off his back.
Walters controlling from the guard. I say controlling but really, he's stalling.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Bravo keeping moving, preventing Walters from controlling successfully.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Bravo will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Bravo throws a low kick but Walters avoids it.
Bravo is looking to score with low kicks.
Walters checks the leg kick.
Bravo throws a front kick aimed at Walters's knee but Walters avoids it well.
Walters avoids a low kick by using good footwork.
Bravo throws a quick inside leg kick.
Bravo feints and then cracks Walters's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Walters down.
Bravo lands with a thumping leg kick.
Bravo throws a leg kick but Walters checks it.
Bravo throws a low kick but it's checked well by Walters.
Walters shoots in for a takedown from distance. He catches Bravo napping and manages to drive through into side control!
Bravo prevents Walters from moving into mount.
Bravo misses with an elbow from the bottom.
Bravo is trying to get back to half guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Walters avoids the strikes from the bottom by Bravo.
Bravo throws a couple of strikes even though he's not really in a good position to do so.
Walters tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Walters has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
Bravo striking from the bottom but nothing landed.
Walters 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.
Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
A nice inside leg kick there by Bravo. That's going to slow Walters down.
Walters looks for a takedown but Bravo sprawls well.
Bravo digs a good hook to Walters's body.
A chopping leg kick lands by Bravo.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bravo connects with a solid leg kick.
Walters takes a kick to the body and keeps moving.
Bravo is looking to wear down Walters with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
Walters shoots for a takedown but Bravo saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Bravo tried to score with a low kick but Walters checks it.
Bravo throws a leg kick but Walters sees it coming and checks it nicely.
Bravo thuds a mid kick into his opponent's body. That will wear on Walters if he has to take too many more of those.
Bravo looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Bravo does a little shimmy and throws a leg kick. The leg kick missed by a considerable margin though, making him look a little bit silly for doing the shimmy.
Walters bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Walters taking a breather here.
Bravo tries to strike from the bottom but misses.
Bravo throws a couple of punches but he's in a bad position and they don't land.
Walters 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.
Bravo tries to strike from the bottom but misses.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Bravo is being controlled here.
Walters advances to mount.
Jeremy Walters has got the better of the ground game so far.
Bravo is trying desperately to improve position.
Walters controlling the position easily from mount.
Bravo keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
And that's the end of the fight!
Jeremy Walters comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I think Walters has won this one but let's see whether the judges agree with me. 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 Saam Ante scores the fight 28:29
Judge Aafke Stam scores the fight 28:29
Judge Paul Aken scores the fight 28:29
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jeremy Walters!
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RATING
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