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Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Luca Modric (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Daniel Hazlehurst (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Hazlehurst's choice of entrance music: Birdman - I Run This ft. Lil Wayne. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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205 lbs
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185 lbs
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Good wrestling
Basic striking
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 1 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Luca Modric!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Hazlehurst!
The judges for this bout are George Francis, Gwen Towbar and Cecil Peabody.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hazlehurst lands a jab.
It looks like Luca Modric has been cut.
Hazlehurst shoots in and bounces Modric off the cage to secure the takedown into guard.
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
Modric throwing strikes off his back to little effect.
Modric trying to punch from his back but it's not doing any damage.
Hazlehurst advances position into side control!
Modric takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Hazlehurst avoids the strikes from the bottom by Modric.
Hazlehurst working the ground and pound from side control.
Modric throwing some weak shots from the bottom that do no damage.
Hazlehurst scores with a couple of short elbows.
Modric striking from the bottom but nothing landed.
Modric is trying to strike from the bottom but Hazlehurst has passed into full mount.
Hazlehurst with the ground and pound from mount.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Modric swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Hazlehurst dominating with strikes here.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Hazlehurst lands with some strikes.
Hazlehurst blocks Modric's feeble attempts to strike from the bottom.
Hazlehurst lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Modric keeping his composure momentarily, calmly looking to get back to half guard.
Hazlehurst trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Modric is trying desperately to improve position.
Hazlehurst sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Modric on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Modric tries to get out of the position.
Modric throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Hazlehurst controlling the position easily from mount.
Modric swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hazlehurst lands a couple of good shots and Modric has given up his back, trying to escape the position!
Modric tries to escape the position.
Hazlehurst punishes Modric with strikes from the back mount.
Hazlehurst has his opponent trapped and is landing shots. Not a good position for Modric.
Hazlehurst is working the back position looking for the choke. Oh, he's slid into an armbar! Beautiful transition and Modric taps out! Fantastic Jiu Jitsu from Hazlehurst.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Daniel Hazlehurst!
Post fight, an emotional Daniel Hazlehurst said '"This is the first time I've felt this way since I left
on this journey. Thanks, you've given me a
decent challenge for the first time in a long
while." "Decent? That's it?" "Show me all you've
got. Expose every trick and
then I'll defeat you! I'll crush you, and the only one that wi'.
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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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