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Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Aleksandr Gurakovskiy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Patrick Tate (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gurakovskiy's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Hollywood Undead - Levitate . Tate has chosen U got 2 know as his entrance music. Both fighters look pumped up here. Let's hope this is a good fight!
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BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the super heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Aleksandr Gurakovskiy!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Patrick Tate!
The judges for this bout are Fedor Mirinova, Viktor Lagutenko and Aleksandr Martynov.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Tate avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Aleksandr Gurakovskiy seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Gurakovskiy misses the jab.
Tate tries to shoot in for a takedown. He's got hold of a leg but Gurakovskiy swivels and escapes.
Gurakovskiy ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Tate moves away.
Some wild striking there from Gurakovskiy.
Gurakovskiy misses with a few strikes there.
Gurakovskiy rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Tate moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Gurakovskiy throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Tate sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Gurakovskiy throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Gurakovskiy takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Tate keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Tate defending well as Gurakovskiy loads up on a big left hand.
Tate closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Tate moves into full mount! Gurakovskiy won't be happy about that!
Gurakovskiy taking shots to the head.
Tate controlling from mount.
Gurakovskiy is looking to improve his position but Tate isn't that keen on the idea.
Tate lands a shot to the body, followed up by a shot to the exposed head of his trapped opponent.
Tate looks like he's working for a submission but he's not found anything just yet.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Tate working Gurakovskiy over with strikes here.
Gurakovskiy is squirming around, avoiding Tate's attempts to control the action.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tate prevents Gurakovskiy from getting the reversal.
Tate tries to control but Gurakovskiy wriggling away.
Tate looking for an armbar but decides to keep the dominant position instead.
Tate is working on an americana here. Ooh, that looks pretty nasty! Nope, Gurakovskiy has managed to escape the submission attempt.
Tate has his opponent pinned against the ropes, landing some nasty ground and pound that is really making a bit of a mess out of Gurakovskiy's face.
Tate working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Gurakovskiy keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Tate content just to control the position here.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tate unloading with bombs!
Tate manages to capitalize on a mistake by Gurakovskiy to take his back!
Tate lands punches and elbows.
Tate lands a shot to the body.
Gurakovskiy is defending well here and trying to improve his position.
The fighters are tangled up in the ropes here. We might need a restart if the fighters can't break free themselves.
Tate looking for the choke but no joy.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Tate is staying calm and holding on to the back position, whilst working on a rear naked choke. Gurakovskiy is defending well though. Tate let's go of the attempt for now.
Tate scores with punches from the back.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tate is riding his opponent, not letting Gurakovskiy buck him off.
Tate wants to control but Gurakovskiy manages to buck him off and is now in Tate's guard! Nice work there by Gurakovskiy!
Tate controls Gurakovskiy momentarily but Gurakovskiy frees himself.
Gurakovskiy has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Tate looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Tate looking to control.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Tate had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Gurakovskiy defends it easily.
Tate has his foot on Gurakovskiy's thigh. He's trying to push off and get in position for a triangle, I think. Gurakovskiy works his way back into a safe position though.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Patrick Tate dominated that round.
That's time! Gurakovskiy's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.
Tate slips under a jab from Gurakovskiy.
Gurakovskiy moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Gurakovskiy throws a hook but Tate blocks it.
A jab from Gurakovskiy misses.
Gurakovskiy tries to bum rush Tate with a series of wild strikes but Tate uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Gurakovskiy misses with a right hand
and Tate counters with a stiff right hand.
Gurakovskiy looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Crunch! Tate slams his shin into Gurakovskiy's torso.
Gurakovskiy misses with a two punch combination.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Gurakovskiy is looking to score with low kicks.
Tate throws a nice outside leg kick.
Gurakovskiy gets cracked there but stands up to it.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Tate gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Tate gets through Gurakovskiy's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
It looks like Aleksandr Gurakovskiy has been cut.
Tate pushes Gurakovskiy back against the ropes and lands a hook to the side of the head.
A knee to the head by Tate.
Tate has clasped his hands together around Gurakovskiy's back... aaand, he's got a takedown into side control. Nicely done.
Tate looks up at the clock and then as Gurakovskiy takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Tate smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Tate wants to lay and pray for a moment but Gurakovskiy keeps working.
Tate has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
A lull in the action here.
Tate tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Tate has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tate is looking to take a break and control but Gurakovskiy is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Tate is putting a hurting on Gurakovskiy here, landing some big shots from side control.
Tate is trying to get an arm triangle but Gurakovskiy is defending well.
Gurakovskiy takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
Tate is looking to finish here, going for an Americana. Gurakovskiy knows the correct defense though, so he's OK.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Gurakovskiy is looking to reverse the position.
Tate working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
Tate wants to control but Gurakovskiy is keeping him busy.
Tate tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Tate working the head with strikes.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tate looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Tate tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Tate looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Tate content to control the pace. The referee will try and keep them active though.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Tate lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Gurakovskiy down.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Patrick Tate showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The cut man is working on Aleksandr Gurakovskiy's cut.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.
Tate tries to score a power double leg takedown but Gurakovskiy sees that one coming and sprawls well. That will dishearten Tate somewhat.
Tate closes the distance and clinches.
Gurakovskiy tries to break the clinch but Tate is controlling the position.
Tate lands a right hand.
With the fighters clinched against the ropes, Tate creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Tate lands a nice trip takedown into half guard.
Tate trying to control the action but Gurakovskiy is working from the bottom.
Tate is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
Tate is just sitting in half guard, waiting for something to happen.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Tate wants to lay and pray for a moment but Gurakovskiy keeps working.
Gurakovskiy is defending against the submission attempts here by Tate.
Gurakovskiy is looking to escape.
Gurakovskiy tries to roll over but Tate keeps him under control.
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.
Gurakovskiy is not content to let Tate control the position.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Gurakovskiy is trying to get back to full guard.
Tate wants to lay and pray for a moment but Gurakovskiy keeps working.
Gurakovskiy is looking to improve his position.
Tate is trying a forearm choke… I don't think that's going to do much at this level of the game.
Tate is just sitting in half guard, waiting for something to happen.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Tate seems to be looking for submissions.
Gurakovskiy is not content to let Tate control the position.
Tate might have to switch it up a bit here because his efforts to control Gurakovskiy kaven't been going to plan, at least at the current moment in time.
Tate moves into full mount! Gurakovskiy won't be happy about that!
Gurakovskiy tries to hold on but Tate pushes him away.
Gurakovskiy tries to improve his position but instead Tate has taken his back!
Patrick Tate has got the better of the ground game so far.
Tate has his opponent trapped and is landing shots. Not a good position for Gurakovskiy.
Tate working for a choke but Gurakovskiy is defending well.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Tate looking for the choke from the back.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Tate tightening his grip on Gurakovskiy, looking for the choke.
Tate is working for the choke. It looks like he might have got it... has he...? Yes! Gurakovskiy is tapping out! This one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:47 of round 3, we have a winner by way of Submission (RNC). Patrick Tate!
Patrick Tate is the new super heavyweight champion!
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