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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Jermaine Beckford (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Frank King (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Frank King struggled to make weight for this fight. He only made it down to 186.2lbs at the first attempt and had to take the additional two hours to make the official bout weight. Let's see how much it's taken out of him. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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187 lbs
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199 lbs
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Decent wrestler
Brawler
Cardio machine |
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BJJ White Belt
Excellent MT
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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
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Jermaine Beckford!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
1 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Frank King!
The judges for this bout are Bruno Hogan, Winston Howard and Summer Carpenter.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Beckford with a body punch. A glancing blow.
Beckford ducks low and lands a nice hook to the body of his opponent.
King tries to close the distance and clinch up but Beckford swats him away and circles back towards the center.
King moves in looking to clinch but Beckford pushes him off.
King tries to close the distance and clinch but Beckford swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
King doesn't manage to clinch there - Beckford circles away.
The fight stays on the outside here - King looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
King tries to clinch but Beckford moves away
and Beckford counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
It looks like Frank King has been cut.
Beckford looks to score with a jab to the body but King is just out of range.
A really sloppy takedown attempt there from King.
We've been informed that King has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Beckford fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
King doesn't manage to clinch there - Beckford circles away.
A shot to the liver by Beckford. Beautiful body shot.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
The fight stays on the outside here - King looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Beckford lands a nice looking body shot.
King looks winded!
King shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Beckford digs a good hook to King's body.
Beckford definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Beckford is looking to wear down King with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
King takes one to the chin there.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Beckford smiles there as he lands a nice right hand right on the button.
King tries to clinch but Beckford is having none of it.
King wants to clinch but Beckford slips to the side
and Beckford counters with a crisp right that sends King to the canvas! Beckford follows up with punches from the mount and this one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:16 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jermaine Beckford!
Jermaine Beckford decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.
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energy
A | B |
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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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