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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Wyjebany Marek (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Matthew Godbolt (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Wyjebany Marek has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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185 lbs
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193 lbs
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BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Good chin |
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Good wrestler
Solid Muay Thai
Good gas tank |
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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
3 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Wyjebany Marek!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Matthew Godbolt!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Hogan, Skip Squint and Donatello Bradman.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Godbolt avoids a punch combination nicely.
Godbolt shoots in for a takedown and gets it.
It looks like the ref is thinking about a standup.
Godbolt not doing much here.
Godbolt is looking for a kimura but he's never going to get it from there.
Marek wants to improve his position but Godbolt is controlling well.
Godbolt throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Nice strikes from Godbolt there.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Nice strikes from Godbolt there.
Godbolt lands strikes from half guard.
Godbolt performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Godbolt thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Marek's head.
Godbolt is taking a breather. Marek says something to him but it's hard to make out. Perhaps he's telling him to get on with it and actually do something.
Godbolt's corner are shouting for him to control the position and he seems happy to oblige.
Godbolt throwing shots but Marek is blocking nicely.
Godbolt is thwarting Marek's attempts to control the position.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Godbolt content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
Godbolt drops an elbow to the side of Marek's head.
Marek is defending against the submission attempts here by Godbolt.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Marek has hold of Godbolt's hands but Godbolt slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Godbolt trying to control the pace.
Godbolt landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Still in half guard, Godbolt seems content to control.
Godbolt landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
Godbolt scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Godbolt content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
Godbolt drops an elbow to the side of Marek's head.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Godbolt sitting and controlling from the half guard.
Godbolt is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Godbolt has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Godbolt is controlling the pace.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Matthew Godbolt dominated that round.
The minute break is over - no more time for sponges and pep talks - back to the action!
Marek throws a right and a left that both miss.
Marek fails to land the takedown.
Godbolt dives in and scores a takedown into Marek's guard.
Godbolt is just sitting in guard, looking to avoid any submissions.
Hammerfist, elbow! yells Godbolt's corner. There ya go! There ya go!
Godbolt keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Marek's head.
Godbolt makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Godbolt stays in close to Marek's body and controls the position.
That's one minute gone in the round.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Let's hope that Godbolt has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.
The ref stands the fighters back up. Matthew Godbolt was stalling too much, according to the referee.
Godbolt instigates a clinch.
Marek's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Godbolt can't find room to land a body shot as Marek controls the action.
Godbolt goes for a takedown in the clinch but Marek prevents it.
Godbolt keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Marek's efforts to push away.
Marek is fighting off a takedown attempt but Godbolt is just too persistent for him and manages to trip Marek to the mat. Marek regains guard as soon as the fighters hit the mat.
Godbolt slows down the pace of the fight for a moment. He'll need to remain active if he doesn't want to see the fight stood back up.
Godbolt passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Godbolt scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Marek to see if he's OK.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Godbolt scoring with punches from side control.
Marek is rocked!
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Marek taking punishment in the form of punches.
Oh Marek is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Marek takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Godbolt scores with a big shot from side control... and another... and another! Oh Marek is done here - save him referee! More strikes land and eventually the ref does step in and Godbolt can finally stop beating on his defenseless opponent!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:23 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Matthew Godbolt!
Matthew Godbolt decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
RATING
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