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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Leland Palmer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Roger Sheck (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Palmer comes to the cage accompanied by Annihilator - Fun Palace. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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200 lbs
28 - 10 - 0 |
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205 lbs
9 - 4 - 0 |
Abu Dhabi Champ
Excellent boxer
KO power |
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Excellent boxer
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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
28 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Leland Palmer!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
9 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Roger Sheck!
The judges for this bout are Chris Dean, Eliza Hachem and Ben Watson.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Palmer throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Sheck feints the counter takedown.
Palmer with a hook.
Palmer throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Sheck counters with a takedown into side control! That could mean trouble for Palmer!
Sheck controls the position.
You can see the frustration on Palmer's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
In the pre-fight buildup videos we saw Sheck working his ground and pound in the gym. He isn't landing a great percentage of his ground strikes so far though.
Sheck tries for a kimura but Palmer is defending well.
Sheck is moving around in side control but his primary objective seems to be to maintain the position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Sheck working away.
Sheck goes for an armbar! This could be all over! Wait, no, Palmer rolls with the submission and now he's on top in Sheck's guard! Nice work there by Palmer!
Sheck wants to sweep here but Palmer controlling him for the moment.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Palmer wants to stand but Sheck has a closed guard, so he can't escape.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Palmer trying to control the position from guard on top but Sheck is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Palmer postures up.
Palmer advances position into side control!
Sheck is trying to control Palmer's posture but Palmer avoids it.
Palmer has improved his flexibility recently so we will have to see if he can use that to his advantage.
Palmer lands a few punches from side control.
Sheck sneaks back into half guard.
Sheck has no desire to be mounted, so is trying to control. Palmer is working away from the top position though.
Sheck misses with some strikes from the bottom.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sheck is refusing to be controlled, as Palmer sits in half guard.
Palmer working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Sheck actively working from the bottom here.
Palmer wants to control but Sheck is keeping him busy.
Palmer moves into full mount! Sheck won't be happy about that!
Palmer with a couple of short strikes.
Sheck is squirming around, avoiding Palmer's attempts to control the action.
Palmer is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Sheck can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Palmer lands a big shot there that rocks Sheck but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Palmer can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Sheck is looking to escape.
Palmer lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sheck sneaks a leg back under and regains half guard and is working straight away to try and get back to guard. He hasn't managed just yet though.
Palmer throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Sheck is trying to get back to full guard.
Sheck regains full guard. Nicely done.
Palmer postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Sheck is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Palmer wants to control from the top but Sheck keeps moving.
Sheck controls Palmer momentarily but Palmer frees himself.
Sheck is working for submissions here. He's thrown up his legs looking for a triangle but Palmer frees his head nicely. Oh but Sheck has switched to an armbar! Palmer is tapping furiously! Lovely submission there!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Armbar). Roger Sheck!
Roger Sheck seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.
Leland Palmer was interviewed post fight and said 'wizards did this'.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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