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PBP Commentary |
Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Romulo Nascimento (ranked 1460 p4p, 178 weight class) and Hal Jordan (ranked 870 p4p, 106 weight class). Romulo Nascimento has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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191 lbs
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188 cm
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190 lbs
6 - 1 - 0 |
BJJ Brown Belt
Counter fighter
Insanely flexible |
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Decent wrestler
Solid Muay Thai
Good gas tank |
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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
6 - 3 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Romulo Nascimento!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
6 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Hal Jordan!
The judges for this bout are Santiago Holmes, Bart Greer and Peter Branson.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A swing and a miss from Jordan.
Jordan pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Jordan lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Jordan throws a lazy uppercut
and Nascimento counters with a nice shoot takedown that brings the fighters to the ground.
Nascimento looking to pass the guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Jordan keeping moving, preventing Nascimento from controlling successfully.
Nascimento sitting in guard here, content to control.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Nascimento slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
Jordan is trying to control Nascimento's posture but Nascimento avoids it.
Nascimento has improved his flexibility recently so we will have to see if he can use that to his advantage.
The referee asks Nascimento politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Nascimento prefers to stall for the moment though.
Nascimento is in a dominant position here, looking for a kimura. Jordan looks calm but he's in trouble here. Nascimento gets his leg over his opponent's head and yanks on the arm. Jordan is tapping like a morse code operator on the titanic! SOS! SOS! Nascimento lets go of the hold and Jordan can pop his arm back in it's socket.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:46 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Romulo Nascimento!
After the fight, Romulo Nascimento was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.
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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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