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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Michael Garibaldi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Stephen Parker (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Garibaldi comes to the cage accompanied by War. Well, I have no idea who's going to take this one!
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Good wrestling
Excellent MT
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Michael Garibaldi!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of New York, Stephen Parker!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Lombardi, Alyssa Summers and Russell Pearce.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Garibaldi clinches up against the cage.
Garibaldi is leaning against Parker and scores with a nice uppercut to the body.
Parker working hard to break the clinch.
Garibaldi working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Parker is working for takedown but Garibaldi is calmly controlling the position for now.
Garibaldi lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Parker.
Parker tries to pull guard but Garibaldi holds him up against the cage and eventually Parker drops back down to his feet.
Garibaldi is pressed up against the cage. Parker has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Garibaldi down to the mat. Garibaldi avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
Michael Garibaldi has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Stephen Parker.
Garibaldi closes the distance and clinches.
Parker drops to a knee looking for a takedown but Garibaldi gets the underhooks and prevents it.
Garibaldi scores with a shoulder strike.
Garibaldi lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Parker or not.
Parker tries to break free but Garibaldi pushes him back against the cage.
Parker wants a takedown but no success here.
Parker looks gassed!
Parker breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Parker sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Garibaldi connects with a good right hand that stumbles Parker. Parker circles away out of range and recomposes himself.
Garibaldi scores with a leg kick.
Garibaldi gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Garibaldi lands a hook to the body. It's hard to tell if that hurt Parker or not.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Garibaldi creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Garibaldi digs a right hand into Parker's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Parker's gas tank.
Garibaldi lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Parker takes a shot to the head.
Garibaldi digs a right hand underneath Parker's ribcage. Parker let out a lung full of air as it connected.
Garibaldi gets through Parker's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Garibaldi.
That's one minute gone in the round.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Garibaldi.
Parker is rocked!
Garibaldi working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Parker is still on wobbly legs! Can Garibaldi finish him?
Garibaldi lands a big uppercut and Parker is down! He's in big trouble - Garibaldi follows him to the mat!
Garibaldi lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Parker quite badly. Parker pulls Garibaldi in close trying to recover. Garibaldi postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Parker on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Parker doesn't seem to be complaining too much.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:27 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Michael Garibaldi!
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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