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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Jimi Manuwa (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Happy Lucky (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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BJJ Blue Belt
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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
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Jimi Manuwa!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Happy Lucky!
The judges for this bout are , and .
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Manuwa forces Lucky back against the cage and clinches.
Lucky looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Lucky is trying to force a seperation but Manuwa has the dominant position.
Lucky wants a takedown.
Lucky tries for a takedown. No joy.
Manuwa is working on a single leg takedown against the cage. Lucky can't fight it off and eventually Manuwa manages to take the fight to the floor. Lucky looks annoyed but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Manuwa wants to control from the top but Lucky keeps moving.
Manuwa with a nice head shot there.
Lucky thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.
Lucky is striking from the bottom but Manuwa uses the opportunity to pass into half guard.
Lucky works his way to full guard. Good work.
Lucky keeping full guard, as Manuwa tries to pass.
Manuwa sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Lucky's guard.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Manuwa seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Lucky does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
The fighters are battling for position here. Lucky manages to regain full guard. Nice work.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Manuwa tries to free his leg and advance position but Lucky is retaining full guard.
Lucky trying to strike off his back.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Lucky doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Lucky trying to strike off his back.
Manuwa wants to control from the top but Lucky keeps moving.
Manuwa stopping the sweep attempt from Lucky.
Lucky scores with a short punch from the bottom.
Manuwa postures up in Lucky's guard and throws a big left but Lucky blocks it.
Lucky throwing strikes off his back to little effect.
Manuwa has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Lucky will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
That's two 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.
Lucky throwing strikes off his back to little effect.
Lucky trying to punch from his back but it's not doing any damage.
Manuwa slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Lucky prevents Manuwa from moving into mount.
Manuwa is breathing heavily.
The referee asks Manuwa politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Manuwa prefers to stall for the moment though.
Lucky lands with an elbow strike from the bottom.
Manuwa is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Lucky knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
Lucky tries to strike from the bottom but misses.
Lucky tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Manuwa wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Lucky throws an elbow to the body but it doesn't land.
Lucky throws a couple of punches but he's in a bad position and they don't land.
Lucky is moving his hips around well on the bottom and has managed to get back to half guard.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Lucky wants to improve his position but Manuwa is controlling well.
Lucky flails away from the bottom but he's not doing any damage.
Lucky misses with some strikes from the bottom.
Lucky tries to strike from the bottom but it doesn't land.
Lucky striking from half guard on the bottom.
Lucky wants to improve his position but Manuwa is controlling well.
Lucky flails away from the bottom but he's not doing any damage.
Manuwa wants to control but Lucky is keeping him busy.
Lucky moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Lucky lands an upkick as Manuwa stands over him.
Lucky striking off his back but it's not causing Manuwa any problems.
Lucky manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Lucky landing shots from mount.
Lucky lands a nice shot to the head.
Lucky with good strikes from the mount here!
Lucky fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Lucky landing punches.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Manuwa is trying to escape the mount.
Lucky lands a big elbow.
Lucky is landing with some decent strikes but Manuwa is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Happy Lucky dominated that round.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from Lucky.
Jimi Manuwa is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
No luck with that takedown attempt from Lucky.
No luck for Lucky with that takedown attempt.
Jimi Manuwa has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Happy Lucky.
Manuwa lands with a head kick! That's gotta hurt.
Lucky lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
Horrible takedown by Lucky or perhaps it was just good defense by Manuwa which made him look bad.
Happy Lucky seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Lucky fails miserably with a takedown attempt.
Manuwa shoots in for a takedown! He's got it and he's managed to land in full mount! That's better than Manuwa was expecting from the takedown attempt, I'm sure!
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Manuwa tries to control but Lucky wriggling away.
Lucky has decided that throwing punches whilst being mounted is the best he can manage just now.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Manuwa working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Manuwa blocks Lucky's feeble attempts to strike from the bottom.
Lucky flailing away with punches but nothing is landing.
Manuwa is standing up out of mount! Strange tactic there - he must really want this one on the feet!
Lucky scores with a nice one two combo and darts back out of range to avoid anything coming in the opposite direction.
Lucky doesn't succeed with the takedown
and Manuwa counters with a single leg into guard. Lucky didn't expect that.
Lucky doesn't do any damage with a couple of strikes from the bottom.
Connects with an elbow from the bottom, proving to the judges that he's still active off his back.
Manuwa trying to control the position from guard on top but Lucky is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Lucky striking from his own guard.
Lucky utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Manuwa wants to control from the top but Lucky keeps moving.
Lucky throws a couple of shots from the bottom but they don't land.
Lucky thows some rabbit punches from the bottom but they don't do any damage.
Lucky throwing strikes off his back to little effect.
Manuwa preventing the sweep.
Lucky will have to put a bit more behind his punches if he's going to do any damage from this position.
Lucky with a couple of shots from the bottom there - nothing Manuwa can't handle though.
Lucky manages to land a sweep and now he's in mount on top!
Lucky has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Lucky putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Manuwa is looking to get to half guard.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Lucky working Manuwa over with strikes here.
Lucky landing strikes, looking to finish!
Manuwa is in a horrible position here. Lucky smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Manuwa tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Lucky cracks Manuwa with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Lucky lands with some strikes.
Manuwa wants to hold on but Lucky pushes him away.
Lucky landing shots from mount.
Lucky is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Manuwa can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Lucky lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Manuwa is rocked!
Lucky looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Manuwa covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:02 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Happy Lucky!
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hype
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