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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Matthew Apacz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Fabolous Fjodor (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Fjodor has chosen Era - Enea Vollare Mezzo as his entrance music. Fabolous Fjodor has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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155 lbs
3 - 3 - 0 |
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166 cm
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155 lbs
1 - 3 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Counter striker
Cuts easily |
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BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Solid chin |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
3 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Matthew Apacz!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Fabolous Fjodor!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Jack Bonds and Timothy Bukovac.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Fjodor misses with a few strikes there.
Fjodor just misses with a punch to the body.
Apacz displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Fjodor throws out the jab.
Apacz will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Fjodor scores with a nice right hand.
Fjodor scores with the left hand. Apacz knows he should have avoided that one.
Fjodor misses with a few strikes there.
A swing and a miss from Fjodor.
Fjodor throws a shot to the body.
A jab from Fjodor misses.
Fjodor dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Fjodor lands a jab.
It looks like Matthew Apacz has been cut.
Apacz shoots in with a takedown attempt and he has Fjodor pinned against the cage. Fjodor gets the underhooks and manages to circle away.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Apacz uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Fjodor.
Fjodor fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Apacz looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Fjodor connects with a looping right hand.
Fjodor throws a hook but Apacz avoids it easily.
Fjodor misses the jab.
Apacz on the wrong end of a nice jab.
Apacz slips a straight right by Fjodor.
Apacz looks shocked there as he takes a right hand to the temple.
Apacz is rocked!
Apacz gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Fjodor.
Oh Apacz is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Fjodor cracks Apacz with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Fjodor tried to score with a low kick but Apacz checks it.
Fjodor jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
Apacz defending well as Fjodor loads up on a big left hand.
Apacz throws a looping left and ducks down for a takedown. He's got his arms around Fjodor's waist but Fjodor gets an underhook and avoids the takedown by throwing Apacz off to one side.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Matthew Apacz. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Apacz shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Fjodor as he jumps to the side.
Apacz seems to have got his legs back now.
Fjodor scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Decent striking displayed by Fjodor there.
Fjodor goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.
Fjodor is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Apacz had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
Fjodor scores with a nice right hand.
Apacz shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Fjodor as he jumps to the side.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Apacz blocks a jab.
Fjodor lands with a straight right. Apacz didn't see that one coming.
Apacz shoots in with a takedown attempt and he has Fjodor pinned against the cage. Fjodor gets the underhooks and manages to circle away.
No luck for Apacz with that takedown attempt.
Apacz is breathing heavily.
Fjodor connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.
Fjodor is looking to slow Apacz down with leg kicks.
Fjodor pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Apacz fails with a takedown attempt.
Fjodor misses with an uppercut.
Boom, another hit is landed. "You're gunna get knocked out" taunts Fjodor, as that shot connected.
Fjodor with a jab.
Matthew Apacz's cut is getting worse.
Fjodor misses with a hook.
Fjodor scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Apacz shoots in for a takedown. "I don't think so" says Fjodor as he avoids it easily.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Apacz takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Fjodor cracks Apacz with a big right hand that sends him to the floor! Apacz looks wobbly but he's sprung back up to his feet straight away… can Fjodor finish him?
Fjodor throws a looping overhand right but Apacz ducks down to avoid it.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Fabolous Fjodor dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Matthew Apacz's cut.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.
Fjodor drops Apacz with a naaaaasty hook - Apacz is in real trouble here! Fjodor dives in to side control and pounds out his opponent for a TKO victory! The crowd goes nuts!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:05 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Fabolous Fjodor!
Fabolous Fjodor spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.
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hype
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RATING
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