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Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Steve Hackett (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Steven Ayim (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Hackett comes to the cage accompanied by Genesis - Firth of Fith. Ayim is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Damage. Steve Hackett could well score a knockout today. He has the power to get to Steven Ayim's chin.
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188 cm
25
193 lbs
2 - 0 - 0 |
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188 cm
25
195 lbs
3 - 1 - 0 |
BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
KO power |
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Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Determined |
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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
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Steve Hackett! And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner. With a record of
3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Steven Ayim! The judges for this bout are David Hoff, Peter Branson and Dirk Anderson.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway! Ayim rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Hackett cracks him with a counter punch right on the button. Ayim takes a kick to the body and keeps moving. Ayim tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Hackett manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat. Hackett lands with a nice body kick. Ayim looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights. Ayim swats away the attempt to clinch by Hackett. Hackett tries to close the distance and clinch but Ayim swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away. Good standup being displayed there by Hackett as he connects with a hook. Ayim rushes Hackett and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch. We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up. Hackett works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Hackett misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Ayim managing to block the knees to the body from Hackett.
Hackett goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
The referee calls for Ayim to work.
Ayim stalling the fight.
That's one minute gone in the round. A short body shot lands from Hackett as the two fighters clinch.
Ayim looks winded! Hackett lands a left hand that snaps the head of Ayim backwards. Hackett working some nice short punches in the clinch. Ayim prevents a body shot from Hackett. Hackett pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat. Ayim swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Ayim sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs. Ayim gets hit by the mother of all head kicks and drops to the canvas in a crumpled heap! Woooow, the Internet is going to be talking about this one for weeks!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:35 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Steve Hackett! Jumping up and down and very excited, Steve Hackett waved his t-shirt featuring Island's Forbidden Fruits's logo in front of the cameras.
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energy
A | B |
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hype
A | B |
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pop
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mgr
A | B |
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FIGHT
RATING
56% |
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