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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Nikolai Dzhumagaliev (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Matthew Godbolt (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Godbolt's choice of entrance music: Trenches by Pop Evil. Matthew Godbolt has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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190 lbs
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202 lbs
21 - 13 - 4 |
Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible |
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World class boxer
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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
23 - 10 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Nikolai Dzhumagaliev!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
21 - 13 - 4, fighting out of Las Vegas, Matthew Godbolt!
The judges for this bout are Yasuomi Hirokawa, Tatsuya Matsuyama and Hirohito Nitta.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dzhumagaliev pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Dzhumagaliev throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Godbolt sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Dzhumagaliev with a nice cross.
Godbolt ducks under a wild hook from Dzhumagaliev.
Godbolt lands a slapping body shot.
Dzhumagaliev swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Dzhumagaliev tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Godbolt paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Godbolt scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.
Dzhumagaliev walks forward and throws out a flicking leg kick. Godbolt checks it nicely though, as he moves to the side.
Godbolt dives in and scores a takedown into Dzhumagaliev's guard.
Godbolt keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Dzhumagaliev's head.
Godbolt has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Godbolt working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Godbolt is stalling in the full guard.
Dzhumagaliev preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Godbolt lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Dzhumagaliev is looking to stand up but Godbolt isn't so interested in that idea.
Godbolt working some ground and pound from guard but it's not doing any damage.
Godbolt looking to sit in guard and control but Dzhumagaliev gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Dzhumagaliev won't allow Godbolt to sweep him here.
Godbolt has a butterfly guard looking to sweep but Dzhumagaliev has passed into side control.
You can see the frustration on Godbolt's face, being in this tough position on the bottom.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Well. There's a bit of a lull in the action here and the crowd are starting to get restless.
Godbolt is trying to work for a sweep but Dzhumagaliev has mounted him!
Dzhumagaliev avoids the attempt from Godbolt to control.
Godbolt is looking to get to half guard.
Dzhumagaliev stands up from the dominant position. He obviously fancies his chances standing.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Godbolt scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Godbolt lands a nice shot that snaps Dzhumagaliev's head back.
Dzhumagaliev will need to close the distance a bit before he attacks - that leg kick was thrown from too far away.
Godbolt is definitely looking for the counter takedowns here.
Godbolt gets tackled into the cage by Dzhumagaliev. Dzhumagaliev maintains the clinch.
A nice left hand lands by Dzhumagaliev.
Godbolt manages to break the clinch.
Godbolt moves out of range as Dzhumagaliev strikes.
Dzhumagaliev throws a low kick, looking for Godbolt's leg but Godbolt calmly moves out of range.
Godbolt misses with a two punch combination.
Dzhumagaliev tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Godbolt is able to avoid easily.
Dzhumagaliev looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Godbolt digs a good hook to Dzhumagaliev's body.
Dzhumagaliev keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Nice straight punches there by Dzhumagaliev. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Dzhumagaliev.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Godbolt takes a step back and watches a body kick go sailing past his mid section.
Dzhumagaliev clinches up with Godbolt and pushes him back against the cage.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Dzhumagaliev breaks from the clinch.
Dzhumagaliev slips under a jab.
Godbolt moves out of range of the leg kick from Dzhumagaliev.
Godbolt takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Nikolai Dzhumagaliev is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Dzhumagaliev moves away from the strike by Godbolt.
Dzhumagaliev scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Dzhumagaliev's jab looks to have found its range, popping Godbolt under the eye.
Dzhumagaliev throws a quick head kick that skims the top of Godbolt's head.
It looks like Matthew Godbolt has been cut.
Godbolt changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Dzhumagaliev uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Godbolt.
Dzhumagaliev gets his head snapped back by a nice shot there.
Godbolt moves out of range of the strikes.
Godbolt bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Dzhumagaliev moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
Godbolt lands a nice shot to the body.
Godbolt keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
Godbolt changes levels for a counter takedown but doesn't follow through with his attempt.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
That was a close round but I would say that Nikolai Dzhumagaliev will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Matthew Godbolt's cut.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!
Godbolt throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Godbolt waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Dzhumagaliev.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Godbolt bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Dzhumagaliev's head backwards.
Dzhumagaliev fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Godbolt manages to avoid it.
And Godbolt tries to counter it with a takedown but Dzhumagaliev pushes his down on his head and steps out.
Dzhumagaliev lands a vicious shot with the stealth of a sniper and the strength of a viper. Are vipers that strong? I can think of lots of things that are stronger than a viper - not many rhyme with sniper though.
Dzhumagaliev tries to score with a low kick but Godbolt moves his leg out of the way.
Godbolt cracks Dzhumagaliev with a right hand to the side of the head.
Dzhumagaliev throws a shot from downtown. Godbolt moves away and avoids it.
Godbolt with the counter takedown but Dzhumagaliev avoids it easily.
Godbolt fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Dzhumagaliev gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Godbolt.
Godbolt ducks under an overhand right and circles away with a smile on his face.
Godbolt takes a jab on the nose. He smiles like he loves it and keeps coming.
Dzhumagaliev pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Godbolt looks to score with a jab to the body but Dzhumagaliev is just out of range.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Dzhumagaliev misses with a looping left.
Dzhumagaliev cracks Godbolt with a right hand to the side of the head.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Godbolt throws a big shot that misses.
Dzhumagaliev throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Godbolt sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Dzhumagaliev connects with the punch.
Dzhumagaliev walks forward and throws a big overhand right! Godbolt drops to the floor like a sack of potatoes! Dzhumagaliev swarms on him with more punches until the referee wrestles him away from Godbolt's unconscious body! Wow, that was brutal!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:18 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Nikolai Dzhumagaliev!
Nikolai Dzhumagaliev spent the whole post fight interview bigging himself up. It didn't go down that well with the fans after a while as they thought it was a bit arrogant.
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