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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Sam Rothstien (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Nickels (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Nickels's choice of entrance music: Hail To The King. Mike Nickels has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Sam Rothstien's chin.
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188 cm
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212 lbs
3 - 2 - 0 |
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188 cm
23
218 lbs
8 - 3 - 0 |
BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Cardio machine |
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BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank |
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division. Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner. With a record of
3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Sam Rothstien! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Mike Nickels! The judges for this bout are Stewart Dunkirk, Alan Glass and Frank Dennis.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Rothstien takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt. Rothstien fails in his attempt to clinch. Rothstien tries to clinch there but Nickels circles away.
Nickels has been spending a lot of time sparring his boxing in the run up to the fight, trying to sharpen up those hands and look for a knockout. Nickels avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Nickels slaps away a takedown attempt from Rothstien, before circling back to the center of the mat. Nickels stuffs the takedown attempt from Rothstien. Rothstien gets slowly back to his feet. Rothstien with a poor takedown and Nickels counters with a stiff right hand.
It looks like Sam Rothstien has been cut. That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Sam Rothstien. That's going to take a lot out of him. Nickels fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Rothstien manages to avoid it. Rothstien shoots for a takedown but Nickels saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily. Nickels drops Rothstien with a straight left! Oh this is bad for Rothstien! Nickels dives in and starts dropping bombs - the referee has no choice but to step in and save him!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:40 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mike Nickels! A relieved looking Mike Nickels thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
A | B |
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
63% |
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