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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jobe Nkemakolam (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nino Blaze (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Blaze has chosen Pendulum - Slam as his entrance music. Nino Blaze told me before the fight that he's been watching a lot of DVDs so let's see if that helps him in this one! I can't wait to find out!
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250 lbs
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214 lbs
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Good wrestling
World class boxer
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
32 - 13 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jobe Nkemakolam!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
31 - 12 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Nino Blaze!
The judges for this bout are , Timothy Bukovac and Jack Bonds.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A shot to the body from Nkemakolam misses
and Blaze counters with a nice jab to the body that keeps Nkemakolam thinking.
A punch lands to the side of Blaze 's head but he takes it in his stride.
Blaze fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Nkemakolam.
Nkemakolam on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Nkemakolam throws a half hearted mid kick.
Nkemakolam waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Blaze.
Nkemakolam digs a good hook to Blaze's body.
Nkemakolam throws a lazy uppercut
and Nkemakolam takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Nkemakolam throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Blaze fakes a jab and throws a low kick but Nkemakolam checks it well.
Blaze throws a wild body kick that Nkemakolam sees coming a mile off.
Blaze scores with a hook.
Blaze just misses with a punch to the body.
Blaze tries to score with a leg kick but it misses it's target.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Nkemakolam.
Nkemakolam moves out of range as Blaze throws a body kick.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Blaze walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Nkemakolam checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.
Blaze fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Nkemakolam manages to avoid it.
Blaze on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Nkemakolam uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Blaze.
Nkemakolam throws the left hand but Blaze avoids the punch easily.
Nino Blaze seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Nkemakolam swings away with a body shot that misses
and Blaze counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Blaze is looking to clinch.
A left lands for Nkemakolam.
Nkemakolam cracks the inside of Blaze's front leg.
Blaze uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Nkemakolam.
Nkemakolam has been working on his boxing with his coaches at The Barracks - LOD in the buildup to the fight.
Nkemakolam misses with a jab to the body
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.
Blaze takes a swing at Nkemakolam's ribcage but misses.
Blaze misses with a low kick.
Nkemakolam throws a lazy body kick
and Blaze counters with a stiff right hand.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Nkemakolam moves out of range as Blaze strikes.
Blaze rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Nkemakolam counters with a driving takedown into guard. Nice work there by Nkemakolam.
Blaze trying to keep a closed guard but Nkemakolam is proving a slippery customer.
Blaze might have to switch it up a bit here because his efforts to control Nkemakolam haven't been going to plan, at least at the current moment in time.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Nkemakolam throwing strikes but missing.
Blaze is doing well to control the posture of his opponent and prevent any damage.
Blaze is looking to sweep but instead, Nkemakolam has passed into half guard.
Nkemakolam throws a strike but Blaze avoids it easily and moves to full guard.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nkemakolam working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Nkemakolam stops Blaze from standing up.
Blaze working the defensive guard well to avoid strikes from Nkemakolam.
Nkemakolam trying to control the position from guard on top but Blaze is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Nkemakolam loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Blaze wants to sweep but no luck.
Nkemakolam throws a strike but Blaze rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.
Blaze wants to control from the top but Nkemakolam keeps moving.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Blaze wants to stand but Nkemakolam is controlling his posture from full guard.
Blaze is taking a break and basically stalling. The referee will not allow him to do that for long.
Nkemakolam is doing well to control the posture of his opponent and prevent any damage.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.
Nkemakolam connects with an inside leg kick.
Blaze misses with a wild combination.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
A close round but Nino Blaze will probably get the nod.
That's the end of the round. The referee orders the cornermen out of the cage so we can get back down to business.
Nkemakolam avoids the head kick by Blaze.
Nkemakolam lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Blaze on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Blaze just misses with a punch to the body.
Blaze throws a decent looking leg kick but it doesn't land clean.
Nkemakolam keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Nkemakolam throws a big shot that misses.
Blaze takes a swing at Nkemakolam's ribcage but misses.
Nkemakolam takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Nkemakolam chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Blaze throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
An inside leg kick from Nkemakolam misses.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Blaze throws a solid leg kick but Nkemakolam takes the impact on his shin and smiles at Blaze.
Blaze feints a jab promting Nkemakolam to slip. Blaze then demonstrates his capabilities by jabbing again. Nkemakolam slips again and ducks right into an uppercut.
It looks like Jobe Nkemakolam has been cut.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Nice body punch from Nkemakolam.
Nkemakolam turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Blaze misses the body punch
and Nkemakolam counters with a single leg into guard. Blaze didn't expect that.
Blaze is trying to stand up but he's not managed so far.
Nkemakolam content to strike from guard, landing some decent shots.
Blaze wants to stand up but Nkemakolam is controlling him.
Blaze keeping moving, preventing Nkemakolam from controlling successfully.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Blaze controls Nkemakolam momentarily but Nkemakolam frees himself.
Blaze preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Nkemakolam loading up with the ground and pound but he's missing more than he's landing in this flurry.
Nkemakolam tries to free his leg and advance position but Blaze is retaining full guard.
Blaze wants to improve his position but instead Nkemakolam has moved into half guard.
Nkemakolam works his way into full mount!
Nkemakolam raining down shots from the mount!
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nkemakolam fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Blaze blocking the ground and pound.
Nkemakolam in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Blaze is looking to get to half guard.
Nkemakolam lands with some strikes.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Blaze blocking the ground and pound.
Nkemakolam lands a couple of good shots and Blaze has given up his back, trying to escape the position!
Blaze manages to scramble and ends up in full guard, under a barage of strikes . Great composure from Blaze.
Nkemakolam with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Nkemakolam throws a big elbow that misses.
Blaze keeping full guard, as Nkemakolam tries to pass.
Blaze utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Blaze utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.
Blaze preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
Nkemakolam slips nicely into half guard.
Nkemakolam missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Nkemakolam looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Blaze with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Blaze wants to improve his position but Nkemakolam is controlling well.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
Jobe Nkemakolam dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Jobe Nkemakolam'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. This is the final round!
Blaze just misses with a punch to the body.
Nkemakolam slips a jab from Blaze.
Nkemakolam just misses with a punch to the body.
Nkemakolam throws a nice outside leg kick.
Blaze takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Nkemakolam throws a quick inside leg kick.
Blaze lands with a thumping leg kick.
Blaze throws out a loose jab but Nkemakolam uses good head movement to avoid it.
Blaze lands a nice shot to the body.
Nkemakolam throws a leg kick
and Blaze counters with a head kick. That will keep Nkemakolam thinking before he tries any more sloppy attacks!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Blaze misses with a low kick.
A slow jab from Blaze misses its intended target.
Blaze keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Nkemakolam throws a sloppy head kick and Blaze moves out of range easily.
Nkemakolam avoids the body shot from Blaze.
Blaze on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Nkemakolam delivers a nice body kick.
Nkemakolam throws a jab to the body, straight down the pipe. Boom. That sent Blaze stumbling backwards but he manages to regain his composure quickly.
Blaze takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
A looping hook to the body misses from Nkemakolam. Blaze does a little dance to reset his feet.
Nino Blaze seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Blaze keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Nkemakolam.
Nkemakolam fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Blaze looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Nkemakolam throws a hook but Blaze avoids it easily.
Nkemakolam throws a hook to the side of Blaze's head but Blaze sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Blaze is looking to score with low kicks.
Nkemakolam chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Blaze connects with a body shot.
Blaze looks to land a body kick but Nkemakolam moved away.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nkemakolam misses the shot to the body.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Nkemakolam fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Blaze looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Nkemakolam throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Nkemakolam jabs at Blaze's body.
Blaze will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Blaze fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Nkemakolam manages to avoid it.
Blaze slips under a jab.
Nice shot lands for Nkemakolam.
Blaze misses with a low kick.
Nkemakolam cracks Blaze with a right hand to the side of the head.
Blaze scores with a leg kick.
Nkemakolam lands the left hand.
Blaze throws a leg kick which misses Nkemakolam's front leg but catches the back leg as Nkemakolam tries to avoid it.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nkemakolam stuns Blaze with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Blaze digs a good body shot into Nkemakolam's ribs.
Blaze on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Nkemakolam. Nkemakolam obviously looking to wear him down.
Blaze scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Nkemakolam lands with a nice body punch.
Blaze connects with a single shot there.
Blaze misses with an uppercut.
Blaze's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Blaze has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Nkemakolam finds it's way round the side to connect with Blaze's head.
Nkemakolam uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Blaze.
Blaze moves out of range as Nkemakolam throws a body kick.
Nkemakolam dips to his left and cracks Blaze with an uppercut!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Blaze just misses with a punch to the body.
Nkemakolam slips under a jab.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Blaze takes one to the side of the head.
Blaze tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Nkemakolam paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Nkemakolam looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Blaze misses with a looping left.
Nkemakolam slips a jab from Blaze.
Nkemakolam is looking to wear down Blaze with body shots, infact he's throwing more body shots than head shots at the moment.
Blaze checks a leg kick nicely.
Nkemakolam thows a body shot but no joy.
A combination from Blaze does no damage.
Blaze misses with a body kick.
Nkemakolam slips under a jab from Blaze.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Blaze gets caught napping as Nkemakolam dives in and scores a takedown. Blaze manages to retain guard.
Nkemakolam postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Blaze keeping moving, preventing Nkemakolam from controlling successfully.
And that's the end of the fight!
Jobe Nkemakolam showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Nkemakolam has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Percy O'Donnell scores the fight 29:28
Judge Timothy Bukovac scores the fight 30:27
Judge Jack Bonds scores the fight 29:28
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jobe Nkemakolam!
During a confident post fight interview, Jobe Nkemakolam thanked all his fans. He seemed very genuine when describing how motivated his fans keep him.
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energy
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hype
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