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Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jordan Dick (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and James Gatzby (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Gatzby has chosen Gatsby's American Dream - Theatre as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. James Gatzby has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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285 lbs
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190 cm
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278 lbs
9 - 3 - 0 |
BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent boxer
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Good wrestler
Good low kicks
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
7 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jordan Dick!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
9 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, James Gatzby!
The judges for this bout are Anthony Taglia, Reed Andrews and Columbo Gatti.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Dick takes a big uppercut there. He seems a bit wobbly but no, he's OK.
Dick throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Gatzby uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Dick.
Gatzby thuds a left hand into Dick's body.
Gatzby changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Dick looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Gatzby with the ground and pound but Dick regains half guard under the barage of strikes.
Gatzby throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Gatzby is looking to take a break and control but Dick is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
The fighters are battling for position here. Dick manages to regain full guard. Nice work.
Gatzby throwing strikes but missing.
Gatzby stands and throws Dick's legs to the side, diving into side control.
Dick defending against the ground and pound.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Gatzby working the body and head with strikes.
Gatzby sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Dick is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Dick is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Gatzby works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Dick is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Gatzby fails to land a wild elbow strike.
The ground and pound from Gatzby seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.
Gatzby is looking to take a break and control but Dick is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Gatzby working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Dick is looking to regain half guard here but Gatzby keeps moving and retains side control.
Dick struggling a bit here.
Dick defending against the ground and pound.
Dick is not in a great position here, taking some shots.
Gatzby is looking to take a break and control but Dick is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Dick managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Gatzby.
Gatzby trying to control the action but Dick is working from the bottom.
Gatzby working the ground and pound but Dick is defending the strikes.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Gatzby happy to just control the position for now.
Dick is moving his hips around well on the bottom and has managed to get back to half guard.
Gatzby wants to take a breather but Dick is having none of it.
Gatzby looking to pass the half guard. Not this time.
Gatzby sitting and controlling from the half guard.
Dick trying to control here.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Gatzby throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Dick makes his way to full guard. A much better position for Dick.
Gatzby trying to control the position from guard on top but Dick is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
The ref stands the fighters back up, due to lack of action by James Gatzby.
Dick thows a body shot but no joy.
Gatzby avoids the body shot from Dick.
A shot to the liver by Gatzby. Beautiful body shot.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Gatzby misses with a wild body shot.
Gatzby moves out of range as Dick strikes.
Gatzby scores with a shot to the body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
James Gatzby dominated that round.
That's time! Dick's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.
Dick misses with an uppercut. Gatzby saw that one coming.
Dick throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Dick will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Dick rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Gatzby moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
A combination from Dick does no damage.
Gatzby scores with a sloppy right hand. Dick should have avoided that one.
Gatzby throws a nice inside leg kick.
Gatzby clinches.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Gatzby takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Dick tries to land knees in the clinch but Gatzby avoids the damage to the body.
Gatzby is working for takedown but Dick is calmly controlling the position for now.
Gatzby is struggling to control the position.
Dick tries to work over Gatzby's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Dick tries to land knees in the clinch but Gatzby avoids the damage to the body.
Dick wants to stall.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Gatzby escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Gatzby comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Dick takes a body punch but keeps moving.
A nice leg kick lands there from Gatzby.
Gatzby ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Gatzby tests Dick's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Dick takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor.
Gatzby comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Gatzby lands with a thumping leg kick.
Gatzby dips down and scores with a jab to the body.
Gatzby lands a head shot.
Gatzby feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Dick's calf.
Jordan Dick is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Dick takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Dick stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Gatzby.
Dick chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Gatzby can pounce on him.
Gatzby closes the distance and clinches up, looking for a takedown. He shifts his weight and gets a nice trip into half guard.
Dick tries to get to full guard but Gatzby has control of the leg.
Gatzby lands with a punch from half guard.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Gatzby controlling the action here.
Gatzby working some ground and pound from close in. He's looking to maintain this position and strike for a while by the looks of things... although he'll probably advance to full mount in a minute now I've said that.
Gatzby trying to control the action but Dick is working from the bottom.
Gatzby stands, ready to strike. The ref makes him back up and allows Dick to get to his feet.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Gatzby, right into the meat.
Dick stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Gatzby.
Gatzby chopping away at his opponent's legs.
Jordan Dick seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Gatzby works Dick's body with a nice hook.
Gatzby with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Gatzby closes the distance and gets a double leg, slamming Dick to the mat! Dick manages to get full guard.
James Gatzby has got the better of the ground game so far.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Gatzby sneaks a leg through and gets to half guard. That was like a knife through butter how easily he passed Dick's guard.
Gatzby trying to pass the guard but Dick defending well.
Gatzby looks over to his corner - he wants some instructions but his corner are not responding.
Gatzby is trying to control the action in half guard but Dick is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Dick on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Gatzby seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Dick does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Gatzby is looking for a kimura here.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Gatzby trying to control the action but Dick is working from the bottom.
Dick is trying to get back to full guard.
Dick is working hard here to advance position.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Dick is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Gatzby scores with a couple of nice shots.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
James Gatzby showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! Let's get this one finished - here comes the final round!
Dick throws out a powerful jab.
Gatzby showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Dick.
Dick is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
Gatzby stooping low to avoid any incoming strikes and then lunges in with an uppercut come cross that lands flush.
Gatzby changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Dick looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Gatzby wants to lay and pray for a moment but Dick keeps working.
Gatzby thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
Dick is looking to reverse the position.
Gatzby is trying to get an arm triangle but Dick is defending well.
Dick defending against the ground and pound.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Gatzby working the head and body with strikes.
Gatzby working away diligently from side control. Landing strikes effectively there - that will score him some points on the judges scorecards.
Dick tries to buck Gatzby off but Gatzby is having none of it.
Gatzby cracks Dick with a big right hand but Dick just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.
Gatzby throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.
Gatzby working away.
Gatzby is chipping away with strikes.
Gatzby is looking to take a break and control but Dick is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Dick taking a bit of punishment here - Gatzby scoring with strikes.
Jordan Dick has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Gatzby creates some space and throws a big elbow, but Dick sees it coming and moves his head just enough to avoid the strike.
Gatzby grinds an elbow into Dick's temple.
Gatzby wants to lay and pray for a moment but Dick keeps working.
Dick takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Gatzby tries for a kimura but Dick is defending well.
Dick can't do much from the bottom here.
Dick is looking to regain half guard here but Gatzby keeps moving and retains side control.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sloppy strikes there by Gatzby.
Gatzby working the ground and pound.
Gatzby works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Dick is trying to escape and get back to his feet.
Dick is trying to improve his position.
James Gatzby is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Gatzby trying to control the position but Dick is working away.
Gatzby is pausing for a moment. What's he doing? It looks like he's clearing his nose. Oh dude! He's shot a load of snot all down Dick's shoulder. That is not cool.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Gatzby sitting in side control, looking to soften his opponent up with elbows and hammerfists but Dick is avoiding damage well and looking to escape the position.
Dick is working to avoid the ground and pound but Gatzby connects with a decent elbow.
Gatzby is looking to take a break and control but Dick is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Dick tries to bench press Gatzby off him but Gatzby keeps the position.
And that's the end of the fight!
James Gatzby comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Gatzby has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.
Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Anthony Taglia scores the fight 26:30
Judge Reed Andrews scores the fight 26:30
Judge Columbo Gatti scores the fight 26:30
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... James Gatzby!
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