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Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Nick Foles (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Arthur Curry (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Foles comes to the cage accompanied by Jedi Mind Tricks - Deathless light. Curry comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Molly Malone - The Dubliners kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!
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302 lbs
14 - 8 - 0 |
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285 lbs
15 - 7 - 0 |
Good wrestling
World class MT
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the super heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
14 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Nick Foles!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
15 - 7 - 0, fighting out of New York, Arthur Curry!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Chris Downing and Cecil Peabody.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Foles gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Foles with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
It looks like Arthur Curry has been cut.
Curry on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Foles definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Foles makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Foles swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Foles missing with knees to the body.
Curry swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Foles pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Curry tries to work over Foles's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Foles escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Foles throws a sloppy head kick
and Curry cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Curry lands an overhand right.
Curry looks to score with a jab to the body but Foles is just out of range.
Arthur Curry seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Curry misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Foles.
Curry throws a low kick but it's checked well by Foles.
Foles quickly followed up with a counter body kick but doesn't connect.
Curry misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Foles.
Curry 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.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Foles checks a leg kick.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Foles slips a straight right by Curry.
Foles half committed to a counter leg kick.
Curry lands a nice shot to the body.
Curry throws a leg kick that is checked
and Foles counters with a slapping leg kick.
Foles bobs and weaves and throws out a fast jab that snaps Curry's head backwards.
Curry wants to land a leg kick but Foles is out of range.
Curry lands a powerful looking uppercut that connected with his opponent's jaw.
Good shot there by Curry.
Foles moves in looking to clinch but Curry pushes him off.
Curry on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Foles takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Curry uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Foles.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Foles tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Curry was well out of range. Poor timing from Foles.
Curry is clearly trying to counter these attacks from Foles with a body shot.
Foles avoids the head kick by Curry.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Curry cracks Foles with a big right hand that sends him crashing to the floor. Curry has the opportunity to follow him to the ground but instead he's beckoning Foles to stand back up!
Foles is rocked!
Are you kidding me?! Curry ducked down and unloaded an uppercut from hell that sent Foles clean off his feet! Someone make me a GIF - that's knockout of the night for sure!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:23 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Arthur Curry!
Arthur Curry 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.
Nick Foles spoke after the fight, saying 'I'll be back!'.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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