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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between nat north (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Michael Leben (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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212 lbs
12 - 12 - 0 |
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185 cm
23
201 lbs
1 - 2 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Very strong |
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BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Granite chin |
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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
12 - 12 - 0, fighting out of London, nat north!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of London, Michael Leben!
The judges for this bout are Daniel Bishop, Chris Edwards and James Ackerman.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
north wants to clinch.
north misses with the combination.
Leben connects with a solid leg kick.
north is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Leben looking to land some kicks to the body here.
north moves out of range of the body kick.
Leben connects with a looping right hand.
Leben throws a sloppy head kick and north moves out of range easily.
north looks to land a combination but Leben avoids it well.
north blocks a head kick by Leben.
Leben plants his feet and lands a nice head kick!
Leben misses with a looping right.
A right-left combo lands from north.
It looks like Michael Leben has been cut.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
north is looking to clinch but Leben is avoiding it.
north clinches up with Leben and pushes him back against the cage.
Leben stalling in the clinch but north improves position.
That's one minute gone in the round.
north gets through Leben's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
north keeps control of Leben as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Leben tries to land a knee to the head but north blocks with his arms.
Leben looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Leben tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
north is leaning against Leben and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Leben working hard to break the clinch.
north misses with a knee to the head.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Leben is trying to force a seperation but north has the dominant position.
north missing with knees to the body.
north pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
north misses with a knee to the head.
With the fighters up against the cage, north throws an elbow but misses.
Leben has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
north tries to land a knee to the head but Leben blocks with his arms.
north keeps control of Leben as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Leben avoiding damage as north throws knees to the body.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Leben.
north keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Leben's efforts to push away.
north manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
My god... these two guys really need to pick up the pace or everyone will leave to go get a beer.
Leben breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
north pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Leben throws a left and a right that both miss
and north counters with a nice double leg into side control. Leben won't be happy with that.
north is trying to land an Americana. He has the arm isolated but Leben is keeping cool and he's avoided the danger for now.
north tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no north has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
north in side control lands a decent elbow.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Leben tries to get back to half guard but can't.
north has an Americana. Leben didn't react quickly enough there and he's in big trouble now! He tries to squirm out but is forced to tap! north is delighted and gyrates in front of the ring girls. They seem to like the attention - it'll be interesting to see if north hooks up with any of them at the after show party.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Americana). nat north!
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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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