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Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Stephoune Father (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Marco North (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Stephoune Father could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Marco North's chin.
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178 cm
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182 lbs
18 - 8 - 0 |
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181 cm
27
170 lbs
13 - 5 - 0 |
Abu Dhabi Champ
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the welterweight division. Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of
18 - 8 - 0, fighting out of New York, Stephoune Father! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
13 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Marco North! The judges for this bout are George Francis, Gwen Towbar and Daniel Franklin.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Father misses with a wild body shot. North throws the kick towards the body but Father avoids it. Father shoots in for a takedown but North shows good takedown defense. North gets caught napping as Father dives in and scores a takedown. North manages to retain guard. We must be close to a standup if these guys don't pick up the pace. North is looking to get back to his feet but can't, whilst Father is controlling him. North looking to sweep here. No luck so far. North had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Father defends it easily. Father stopping the sweep attempt from North. Father works over North with some ground and pound from guard. Father with a nice head shot there. Father tries to free his leg and advance position but North is retaining full guard. Father is trying to work a guillotine from the top, or something like that? Don't know how he thinks he's going to get a finish from there. North is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
That's one minute gone in the round. Father trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat. Father avoids a guillotine attempt easily.
Father throws a big elbow that misses. North is active off his back here, looking for submissions.
Father throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent. Father is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound. Both fighters really going for it on the ground here! North is looking for a triangle here but Father uses the submission attempt to pass into side control.
Father lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face. Father is chipping away with strikes.
Father has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission. North regains half guard. Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd. Father winds up and cracks North with a swinging punch to the side of the head.
That's two minutes gone in the round. The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily. North tries to roll over but Father keeps him under control. Father throwing shots but North is blocking nicely. Father is looking for a kimura but North is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Father to get the leverage. North is looking to escape. The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work. Father throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man. North wants to control but Father is keeping busy.
North manages to get to full guard.
North working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Father. Father landing with the ground and pound. Father slips nicely into half guard. North is looking to regain full guard. Not this time though. North keeping control of the position.
That's three minutes gone in the round. North manages to get to full guard.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Father accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand. Father postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect. North working a defensive guard here.
North isolates an arm and boxes in a triangle. Father stacks North on his neck as he steps over and passes to the side. He's now in a much more dominant position where he can look to do some serious damage. Nice move by Father! North is looking to regain half guard here but Father keeps moving and retains side control. The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing. North is not in a great position here, taking some shots. Father tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
That's four minutes gone in the round. Father lands a few punches from side control.
It looks like Marco North has been cut. The crowd are loving this. Great action here. Father working the head with strikes. Father lands some shots froms side control. North taking a bit of punishment here - Father scoring with strikes. Father landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
North is rocked!
That has opened up Marco North's cut even more. North is holding Father down, trying to stall. North is still in real trouble! Can Father finish him? Father lands an elbow. North is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
The cut above Marco North's eye is starting to cause him problems now. Father works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Marco North's cut is absolute horrible now. This looks like something out of a horror film with blood covering both fighters.
The referee calls the doctor in to look at Marco North's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Stephoune Father! Stephoune Father bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.
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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
72% |
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