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Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Michael Crawford (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Zoran Markovic (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Crawford comes into the arena with Kanye West- New Slave blaring out of the sound system. Zoran Markovic will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.
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139 lbs
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Good wrestling
Solid boxing
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
11 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Michael Crawford!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Zoran Markovic!
The judges for this bout are James Atkins, Colin Fotheringham and Donald Grub.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Crawford shoots for a takedown but Markovic saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Markovic thuds a left hand into Crawford's body.
Markovic jabs at Crawford's body.
Markovic works Crawford's body with a nice hook.
Markovic misses with a wild body shot.
Crawford 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.
Crawford walks into a left hand.
Markovic throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
Markovic throws the kick towards the body but Crawford avoids it.
Crawford shakes his hands off, looking to compose himself, but takes a jab to the jaw whilst he does it.
Markovic looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Markovic fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Crawford has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Crawford fails with a takedown attempt.
Markovic lands a nice leg kick that just misses Crawford's sensitive parts.
Zoran Markovic seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
That's one minute gone in the round.
A looping hook to the body misses from Markovic. Crawford does a little dance to reset his feet.
Crawford takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Zoran Markovic is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Crawford avoids the body shot from Markovic.
Crawford tries to score a power double leg takedown but Markovic sees that one coming and sprawls well. That will dishearten Crawford somewhat.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Michael Crawford. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Markovic, right into the meat.
Markovic connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
No luck with that takedown attempt from Crawford.
Markovic works Crawford's body with a nice hook.
Markovic feints and then cracks Crawford's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Crawford down.
Markovic leaves Crawford with his face pressed against the mat as he sprawls beautifully, defending against a solid takedown attempt.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
An inside leg kick lands from Markovic.
Markovic dips to his left and cracks Crawford with an uppercut!
Markovic is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
Markovic feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Crawfords jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Markovic throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Markovic throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Markovic scoring well with a low kick there.
Crawford takes a shot to the body in his stride.
Markovic lands a body shot.
Markovic lands a head kick!
Crawford is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
A good leg kick by Markovic.
Markovic scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Markovic throws a nice hook to the body that draws an oooh from the crowd.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Markovic cracks the inside of Crawford's front leg.
Crawford takes one to the chin there.
Crawford is rocked!
Markovic steps in with a hook that catches Crawford right on the chin and knocks him to the floor! Markovic follows him down with more strikes and that's all she wrote! Crawford looks absolutely devastated.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:19 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Zoran Markovic!
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hype
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pop
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