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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Tom Costigan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nate Sleeper (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Costigan comes to the ring accompanied by Kickapoo by Tenacious D. Nate Sleeper has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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179 cm
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205 lbs
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188 cm
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215 lbs
0 - 1 - 0 |
Basic striking
Self confident
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Decent boxing
Prefers standup
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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
0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Tom Costigan! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of New York, Nate Sleeper ! The judges for this bout are Steve Montenegro, John Kavanagh and Bruno Lombardi.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Sleeper slips a jab and a cross from Costigan.
And an attempted straight right on the counter from Sleeper ! But no joy. Costigan drops his hands and takes a jab to the jaw for his troubles. Sleeper throws a right hand that Costigan ducks under and follows up with a left that Costigan also avoids with ease. Sleeper will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Costigan throws a series of strikes that have Sleeper backpedaling.
Sleeper dodges the punch combination from Costigan.
Costigan throws a head kick but Sleeper moves out of range.
Sleeper staggers Costigan with a jab and knocks him down with a follow up straight! Costigan looks in trouble, will he beat the count?! The count has reached 5 and he's only back to 1 knee - it's going to be close! 6,7,8 - he's up! Just in time and the ref is going to let the fight continue!
Costigan is rocked! Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd. Costigan fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Oh Costigan is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!! Sleeper lets loose with a powerful body kick. Costigan will feel that in the morning. Costigan seems to have got his legs back now. Costigan is breathing heavily. Sleeper plants his feet and throws a 3 punch combo. Miss, miss, boom! The third punch, a big right hook, connects right on the temple and drops Costigan to the mat, unconscious! This fight is all over! Costigan just couldn't keep out of the way of the whole flurry of punches!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:42 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punches). Nate Sleeper !
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
RATING
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