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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Bailey Harris (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Teddy Sean (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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BJJ Purple Belt
Solid Muay Thai
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Excellent boxer
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Bailey Harris!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
9 - 3 - 0, fighting out of London, Teddy Sean!
The judges for this bout are Chris Edwards, Daniel Bishop and Colin Fotheringham.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Harris tries to score with a low kick but Sean moves his leg out of the way.
Harris takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Harris closes the distance and clinches.
Sean being controlled against the cage.
A short uppercut from Sean.
Harris misses with a knee strike.
Harris tries a knee to the head but Sean blocks it.
Harris with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Harris is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Sean is defending well for now.
Sean escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Harris fails in his attempt to clinch.
Harris is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
It looks like Bailey Harris has been cut.
Harris takes one on the chin but seems OK.
A bone on bone clash there as Sean blocks the leg kick.
Harris looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Sean blocks a low kick nicely.
Harris tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Sean paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Harris keeps the fight on the outside.
Harris moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Sean clinches but Harris breaks the clinch
and Harris counters with a head kick.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Harris sets himself and throws a head kick that knocks Sean to the ground! Harris dives into full mount looking to finish!
Sean is rocked!
Harris throwing strikes here but Sean is writhing around nicely and avoiding any serious damage.
Sean is still in real trouble! Can Harris finish him?
Sean is looking to improve his position but Harris isn't that keen on the idea.
Sean seems to have recovered his senses.
Harris trying to control but he's not successful this time.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Harris content just to control the position here.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Poor strikes thrown by Harris there. More accuracy and less frantic strikes would help!
Sean defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Harris.
Harris looking for a guillotine from mount but Sean is having none of it.
Sean defends a decent attempt at a guillotine from Harris.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Harris trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Harris with some aggressive grappling here. He's looking for submissions here, rather than waiting for the opportunity to counter.
Harris looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.
Harris wants to control the pace but Sean is squirming around nicely.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
Harris jumps to side control looking for an arm triangle but Sean manages to avoid the submission attempt.
The referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Harris throws a push kick but Sean slaps the foot to one side.
Sean scores with a nice right hand.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Harris checks the leg kick.
Sean moves into range and connects with a jab.
Sean lands a jab to the head.
No luck for Harris with that takedown attempt.
Sean avoids the head kick by Harris.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Teddy Sean dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Bailey Harris's cut.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!
Sean wants to clinch up but Harris keeps it at a distance.
A leg kick checked by Harris.
Sean misses with a low kick.
Sean connects with a single shot there.
Sean is looking to clinch but Harris is avoiding it.
Sean throws a hook to the side of Harris's head but Harris sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Harris defending well as Sean loads up on a big left hand.
Harris takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Left hook, right uppercut from Sean.
Teddy Sean seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Sean throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Sean will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Harris misses with a head kick.
Sean looks to land a left hand but Harris moved out of range nicely.
Sean throws a big shot that misses.
Harris fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Sean checks it well.
Sean keeps the fight on the outside.
Sean lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Harris motions for Sean to come forward. Harris throws a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Sean swings away with a leg kick that misses.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Harris uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Sean.
Sean lands with a nice combination. Harris backs away looking to recover.
Sean falls off balance throwing a combination
and Harris counters with an outside leg kick.
Sean connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Teddy Sean is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Horrible takedown by Harris or perhaps it was just good defense by Sean which made him look bad.
A right-left combo lands from Sean.
Sean is breathing heavily.
Harris moves in looking to clinch but Sean pushes him off.
Harris throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Harris explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Sean fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Harris fails with the takedown.
Harris takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Harris connects with a high kick.
Teddy Sean is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Harris tries to clinch up.
Sean throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Harris takes one to the chin there.
Harris finds nothing but air with that leg kick attempt.
Sean misses with a looping right.
Harris closes the distance and pushes Sean back into the cage.
Harris trying to land knees to the body.
Harris lands a shoulder strike.
Sean avoiding damage as Harris throws knees to the body.
Sean blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Harris tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Harris trying to land knees to the body.
Harris misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Sean.
Sean lands a hook to the side of the head.
Harris with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Harris lands an uppercut.
Harris tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Harris tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Sean's elbow.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Harris is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Sean is defending well for now.
Harris landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Sean tries to circle away but Harris has him pinned against the cage.
Harris trying to control the position but instead, Sean has worked for underhooks and has pushed Harris into the cage.
Harris landing knees to the body.
Harris misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Sean.
Sean on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Harris missing with knees to the body.
Harris lands a nice knee to the body.
Harris misses with a knee to the head.
Harris taking a breather.
Sean has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Harris misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Sean.
Harris tries to land a knee to the head but Sean blocks with his arms.
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.
Harris tries to work over Sean's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Harris tries a body shot but Sean blocks it.
Harris tries to land knees in the clinch but Sean avoids the damage to the body.
Sean has had enough of the clinch but Harris keeps him there for the moment.
Harris tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Harris connects with a knee to the head.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Sean.
Harris trying to land knees to the body.
Harris misses with a short punch on the inside.
Harris with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Harris tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Sean avoids it.
Harris misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Sean.
Sean is trying to break free.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Harris content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Harris can't find room to land a body shot as Sean controls the action.
Harris with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Harris tries a knee to the head but Sean blocks it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Teddy Sean showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Bailey Harris's cut.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action.
Harris is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Sean wants to clinch
and Harris counters with a single leg into guard. Sean didn't expect that.
Sean utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Harris thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
Sean keeping full guard, as Harris tries to pass.
Sean keeping moving, preventing Harris from controlling successfully.
Harris thows a big elbow that misses.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Harris wants to control from the top but Sean keeps moving.
Sean being controlled here, momentarily.
Sean looking to hit a scissor sweep but Harris is one step ahead there.
It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.
Harris defending well as Sean loads up on a big left hand.
Sean misses with a series of wild punches.
Harris plants his feet and lands a nice head kick!
Sean keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Harris.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sean connects with a nice looking jab.
Sean smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
Sean cracks Harris with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
Sean looks to land a combination but Harris avoids it well.
Sean throws a hook but Harris blocks it.
Sean takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Harris throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
Harris is looking to score with low kicks.
Harris shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Sean as he avoids it easily.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Sean fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Harris looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Harris fails with a takedown attempt from distance.
Harris feints and then cracks Sean's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Sean down.
Harris misses with a low kick.
Harris lands with a slapping head kick.
Sean throws a right and a left that Harris avoids nicely.
Harris shoots for a double leg takedown but Sean sprawls well. He's pushed Harris's face into the mat and manages to get back to his feet relatively easily.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Bailey Harris. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Harris lands a really nice looking cross but Sean seems unphased.
Sean moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sean misses with the combination.
Harris misses with a leg kick.
Harris throws a head kick but Sean moves out of range.
Harris fails with a rather predictable takedown attempt.
Harris takes one on the chin but seems OK.
Sean checks a leg kick.
Harris misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Sean throws a jab when Harris was well out of range.
Sean takes a swing at Harris's ribcage but misses.
Harris looks like he's developed a pretty tasty lump over his left eye. He'll need to avoid taking much more damage to that.
Harris shoots in and drives through. Sean sprawls well.
Sean just misses with a punch to the body.
Sean works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Sean avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Sean throws a shot to the body.
Harris 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.
That's four 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.
Harris tries to clinch up.
Harris connects with a solid leg kick.
Sean lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.
No luck for Harris with that takedown attempt.
Sean takes a nasty kick to the mid section... That should keep him thinking. Does he try and block and risk a head kick landing?
Harris throws a nice inside leg kick.
Nice straight punches there by Sean. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Sean.
Teddy Sean seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Harris wants to clinch but Sean slips to the side
and Harris takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Harris throws a leg kick but Sean sees it coming and checks it nicely.
Harris shoots for a takedown but Sean saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Harris misses with a body kick.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
A slapping leg kick lands for Harris.
Harris pushes Sean up against the cage in a clinch.
Harris missing with knees to the body.
Harris pushes Sean back against the cage and unloads with a body punch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Bailey Harris clearly takes that round.
The cut man is working on Bailey Harris's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!
Nice defenses there by Harris.
Harris takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Sean throws out a loose jab but Harris uses good head movement to avoid it.
Sean avoids the head kick by Harris.
Harris scores with a kick to the midsection.
Harris is trying hard to land a takedown here. Sean sprawls well and keeps this one on the feet.
Some bone on bone action there as Harris checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Harris scores with a nice body kick.
Harris tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Sean throws a series of punches but Harris moves out of range.
Harris looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Harris moves into the clinch.
Sean tries to break free but Harris pushes him back against the cage.
Sean blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Harris keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Sean's efforts to push away.
It's got to the stage where if one of these guys blows hard enough, the other might fall over.
Harris throws a knee to the head but misses.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Harris is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Sean is defending well for now.
Harris with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Harris throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Sean blocks it with crossed arms.
Harris missing with knees to the body.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Harris.
Harris misses with a knee to the head.
Sean has had enough of the clinch but Harris keeps him there for the moment.
Sean breaks from the clinch.
Harris lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Harris takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Harris avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Harris tries a head kick but it misses.
Harris scores with a leg kick.
Harris is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Harris chopping away at his opponent's legs.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sean falls off balance throwing a combination
and Harris counters by moving into the clinch.
Harris misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Sean.
Harris tries to land a knee to the head but Sean blocks with his arms.
Sean blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Sean has developed a nice purple lump on his ribcage, as a result of some heavy body kicks from Harris.
Sean has had enough of the clinch but Harris keeps him there for the moment.
Harris is trying to maintain a safe position but Sean gets an underhook and turns Harris into the cage.
Harris is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Sean is defending well for now.
Harris crunches a lovely knee into Sean's ribcage.
Sean wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Harris putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Sean in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Sean on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Harris with an attempt at a knee that misses.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Harris.
Harris misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Sean.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
A frustrated look appears on Sean's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Harris tries to land a knee to the head but Sean blocks with his arms.
Harris using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Harris obliges.
Harris is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Sean is defending well for now.
Harris throws a knee to the head but misses.
Sean's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Sean throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.
Harris turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Harris misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Harris keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Sean.
Harris closes the distance and pushes Sean back into the cage.
Harris working Sean over with knees to the body.
Harris missing with knees to the body.
Harris tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Harris is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Sean is defending well for now.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Harris keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Sean's efforts to push away.
Harris is working hard here but doesn't seem to be able to control effectively, up against the cage.
Sean on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Harris with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Sean's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Sean uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
Sean looks to land a right hand but Harris moved out of range.
Sean closes the distance and clinches.
Harris with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Knees in the clinch landing for Harris.
Harris with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Harris tries a knee to the head but Sean blocks it.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Bailey Harris had his way with Teddy Sean in that round.
The cut man is working on Bailey Harris's cut.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! So, we enter the final round. Let's see if either fighter can bring us a finish, or whether we're going to the judges scorecards.
Harris walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Harris tries to clinch but Sean moves out of range.
Harris takes one on the chin but keeps coming.
Sean chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Harris can pounce on him.
Harris checks a low kick. Bone on bone - not my idea of a good time.
Harris buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Sean misses with an uppercut. Harris saw that one coming.
Sean swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Harris counters with a nice low kick that buckles Sean's knee momentarily.
Harris feints and then cracks Sean's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Sean down.
A nice leg kick lands there from Harris.
Sean keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
Harris feints and as Sean raises his hands in defense, Harris changes levels and drives through with a takedown into guard.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sean keeping moving, preventing Harris from controlling successfully.
Harris throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Both of our modern day gladiators look out of it here - an gruelling 5 rounds of action taking it's toll on them, no doubt.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Harris wants to control from the top but Sean keeps moving.
Harris thinks about going for a leg but decides against it, in order to maintain the position.
Harris drops back, looking for a kneebar! Sean looks panicked! The fighters roll across the mat, one looking to finish, one looking to escape. Sean looks to have wriggled free... Yes, he's got his leg free and he's dived into side control! Good work there from Sean!
Harris struggling a bit here.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are starting to boo a lack of action.
Sean taking a breather here.
Harris is looking for a sweep.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Harris sneaks back into half guard.
Sean is trying to control. Harris wants to improve his position but can't escape this time.
Harris holds on for dear life, maintaining half guard for now.
Harris tries to get to full guard but Sean has control of the leg.
Harris trying to hold on to Sean's head to control him but Sean postures up.
Harris is trying to get back to full guard.
That's four 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.
Sean is thwarting Harris's attempts to control the position.
Harris is trying is best to control the position here.
Harris wants to improve his position but Sean is controlling well.
Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
Sean checks a leg kick nicely.
Harris shoots in but no luck this time.
Sean lands a body shot.
And that's the end of the fight!
Bailey Harris showed his dominance in that final round.
I think Harris 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 5 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Chris Edwards scores the fight 48:47
Judge Daniel Bishop scores the fight 48:47
Judge Colin Fotheringham scores the fight 48:47
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Bailey Harris!
Bailey Harris is the new middleweight champion!
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