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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between lloyd zak (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and mark munoz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). zak comes to the cage accompanied by strenght to go on - rise against. mark munoz will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.
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205 lbs
4 - 3 - 0 |
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196 cm
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205 lbs
0 - 1 - 0 |
BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
KO power |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Very confident |
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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
4 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, lloyd zak!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, mark munoz!
The judges for this bout are Chad Campbell, Dean Styles and Jorge Garcia.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
zak throws a right and a left that munoz avoids nicely.
zak throws a right hand that munoz ducks under and follows up with a left that munoz also avoids with ease.
zak slips a jab and a cross from munoz.
munoz fails with a takedown attempt.
munoz shoots in for a takedown. He's persisting with it as zak sprawls well. zak wins this battle and keeps the fight standing. munoz gets slowly back to his feet.
munoz throws a right hand that zak ducks under and follows up with a left that zak also avoids with ease.
munoz lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but zak circles away quickly and effectively.
Good work by munoz as he checks the leg kick.
No joy there for munoz, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
munoz throws a right hand that zak ducks under and follows up with a left that zak also avoids with ease.
zak stuffs the takedown.
lloyd zak has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of mark munoz.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
munoz throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
zak throws a sloppy head kick and munoz moves out of range easily.
zak clinches with his opponent.
zak breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
zak feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
munoz looks gassed!
munoz is trying to keep zak in close.
That's one minute gone in the round.
munoz utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
munoz working for a triangle but zak defends it easily.
munoz not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
zak working some strikes from top position.
zak pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. munoz is keeping the position for now.
zak trying to control but munoz is working from the bottom.
munoz looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.
It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.
zak shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
zak scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. zak lands a nice short elbow.
munoz is looking for a sweep. zak is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
zak decides to stand up.
zak shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than zak was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
munoz is desperately trying to improve his position but zak has a good base and remains in mount.
zak is working for a guillotine from mount but munoz frees his head quite easily.
munoz wants to control but zak is having none of it.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
zak is landing with some decent strikes but munoz is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
munoz tries to hold on but zak pushes him away.
zak with a couple of short strikes.
zak postures up and cracks his opponent a couple of times before moving back into close ground control. munoz looks a forlorn figure.
The crowd growing excited in anticipation of a finish here! Right on cue, zak cracks his opponent with a massive right hand that draws loud cheers!
zak avoids the attempt from munoz to control.
munoz is desperately trying to improve his position but zak has a good base and remains in mount.
zak working the ground and pound effectively.
munoz tries to hold on but zak pushes him away.
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.
munoz is trying to avoid being dragged into an even worse position than he's already in but zak is staying active.
zak looking to ground and pound his opponent to a finish here.
munoz in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.
zak avoids the attempt from munoz to control.
munoz is in all sorts of trouble here.
zak has his opponent pinned against the cage, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of munoz's face.
zak looking to finish munoz with some ground and pound. This is bad for munoz!
zak unloading with bombs!
zak controlling the pace for now.
zak landing strikes from the mount and munoz is in trouble!
munoz wants to control but zak is having none of it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
lloyd zak dominated that round.
That's time! Back to the action!
munoz looks to land a combination but zak avoids it well.
munoz looks to land a combination but zak avoids it well.
zak swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
munoz shoots in but doesn't get the takedown
and zak counters with a nice double leg into side control. munoz won't be happy with that.
zak working the head and body with strikes.
zak looks up at the clock and then as munoz takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, zak smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
zak decides to stand back up. zak steps back and let's munoz get back to his feet.
munoz avoids a punch combination nicely.
zak is on the wrong end of a nice combination from munoz.
munoz cracks zak with a good jab.
zak lands a jab to munoz's midsection.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
zak closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
lloyd zak overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
That's one minute gone in the round.
munoz regains full guard. Nicely done.
munoz working for a triangle but zak defends it easily.
munoz looking to hit a scissor sweep but zak is one step ahead there.
zakis looking to pass into half guard but munoz pushes him away with his feet and jumps on top - now munoz is in guard.
munoz preventing the sweep.
zak is working hard here to advance position.
zak kicks munoz off and gets to his feet.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
munoz misses with a wild combination.
Jab, cross, leg kick. Nice combination by zak!
munoz scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
zak dodges the punch combination from munoz.
munoz throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and zak counters with a single leg into guard. munoz didn't expect that.
munoz looking to hit a scissor sweep but zak is one step ahead there.
munoz is trying to control the position from the bottom.
zak cracks munoz with a solid left hand.
zak drops back, looking for a kneebar! munoz looks panicked! The fighters roll across the mat, one looking to finish, one looking to escape. munoz looks to have wriggled free... Yes, he's got his leg free and he's dived into side control! Good work there from munoz!
That's three minutes gone in the round.
zak is trying to control munoz's posture but munoz avoids it.
munoz looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
zak throws his opponent off and manages to get back to his feet! Nicely done!
zak throws a head kick that connects with a bit of head and a bit of hand.
munoz will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
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.
Good exchange - zak coming out on top.
zak closes the distance and clinches.
munoz wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
zak breaks the clinch.
lloyd zak seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
munoz avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
zak misses with a two punch combination.
zak falls off balance throwing a combination
and munoz counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.
zak looking for a sweep. Not yet zak, not yet.
zak can't keep his opponent in guard - munoz advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
munoz is looking to take a break and control but zak is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
lloyd zak dominated that second round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the final round!
munoz has his takedown stuffed
and zak counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
zak shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
zak not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
munoz wants to get back to full guard.
zak working the head and body with strikes.
munoz is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though.
munoz blocking the ground and pound attempt from zak.
munoz makes his way to full guard. A much better position for munoz.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
munoz wants to stand but zak is controlling the position.
That's one minute gone in the round.
munoz not looking particularly offensive just at the moment.
zak has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
zak throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
zak postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
zak wants to control from the top but munoz keeps moving.
It looks like we're going to have a standup here. Neither fighter is doing enough on the ground.
zak misses with a takedown attempt - munoz sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
munoz has a takedown stuffed.
A big right from zak misses.
munoz misses with a double jab.
zak misses with a two punch combination.
munoz dips to his left and cracks zak with an uppercut!
zak closes the distance and pushes munoz back into the cage.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
zak breaks the clinch.
munoz scores with the left hand. zak knows he should have avoided that one.
Excellent takedown into side control there by zak.
zak is chipping away with strikes.
munoz manages to work his way to half guard, despite zak's best efforts.
munoz trying to hold on to zak's head to control him but zak postures up.
zak working over munoz with some ground and pound. munoz looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.
munoz tries to get to full guard but zak has control of the leg.
munoz avoiding damage under a succession of punches from zak.
zak scoring with strikes to the body and head.
zak not doing much here.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
munoz trying to control from the bottom.
zak missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Well, the referee has seen enough. Neither fighter is active enough on the ground so he's stood them back up.
munoz swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
zak misses with a combination
and munoz counters with a left and a right that stings zak.
zak is looking to clinch but munoz is avoiding it.
munoz closes the distance and lands a one-two.
munoz misses with a takedown attempt
and zak counters with a one-two to the body.
lloyd zak has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of mark munoz.
munoz scores with a three punch combo!
zak tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but munoz was well out of range. Poor timing from zak.
munoz will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
zak misses with a body shot.
mark munoz has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
That's four 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.
munoz lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
zak drives through with a takedown into guard.
zak slips nicely into half guard.
munoz is looking for a sweep. zak is wise to his cunning plan and keeps the top position.
The referee calls for the fighters to work.
zak thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
munoz trying to control but zak postures up.
munoz is trying to get back to full guard.
lloyd zak is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
munoz slips a foot under and gets full guard. Nice work.
And that's the end of the fight!
lloyd zak showed his dominance in that final round.
Well zak has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... 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 Chad Campbell scores the fight 30:27
Judge Dean Styles scores the fight 30:27
Judge Jorge Garcia scores the fight 30:27
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... lloyd zak!
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energy
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hype
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RATING
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