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Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Mustafa Sekish (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Alexi Laiho (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Laiho is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper. I can't wait for this one - let's get the fighter introductions out of the way and get this one started!
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BJJ Blue Belt
Great elbows
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Excellent MT
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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 - 2 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Mustafa Sekish!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
5 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Alexi Laiho!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Ben Zyskovitsi and Roosa Järviläinen.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Laiho closes the distance and clinches.
Sekish on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Laiho pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Sekish fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Laiho, pushing him back against the cage.
Sekish blocks the elbow strike.
Laiho takes an elbow to the temple.
Sekish working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Laiho being controlled against the cage.
Sekish tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Sekish throws an elbow but it misses.
Laiho misses with a knee strike.
Laiho blocks the elbow strike.
Sekish creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Laiho's defenses.
Laiho avoids the elbow strike from Sekish, against the cage.
Sekish pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Laiho tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Sekish throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Sekish blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Laiho dodges an elbow strike from Sekish.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Laiho blocks an elbow strike.
Laiho tries a knee to the head but Sekish blocks it.
Laiho misses with a knee to the head.
Sekish leaning his opponent against the cage.
Laiho manages to break the clinch.
Laiho throws a big shot that misses.
Sekish has closed the distance and engaged Laiho in a clinch.
Sekish creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Laiho's defenses.
Laiho tries to land knees in the clinch but Sekish avoids the damage to the body.
Sekish throws an elbow but it misses.
Laiho is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Sekish lands a left hand that snaps the head of Laiho backwards.
Laiho is looking for a takedown up against the cage. Sekish gets underhooks though and prevents the takedown attempt.
Sekish lands an elbow inside.
Sekish working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Sekish lands a left hand that snaps the head of Laiho backwards.
Sekish looking to stall.
Laiho misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Sekish.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sekish lands an elbow just above Laiho 's eye.
Sekish lands a hook to the side of the head.
Laiho is working on a leg, looking for a takedown but Sekish is defending well.
Sekish lands with a short punch from the clinch.
This has been an exciting period of action!
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Sekish just misses with a elbow thrown towards Laiho's brow.
Sekish throws an elbow that misses.
Laiho takes an elbow to the forehead.
Laiho with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Sekish prevents Laiho from breaking the clinch.
Laiho has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Sekish just misses with a elbow thrown towards Laiho's brow.
Laiho working hard to break the clinch.
Sekish on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Sekish on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Sekish throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Laiho.
Laiho throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Sekish blocks it with crossed arms.
Sekish dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Sekish taking a breather.
Sekish lands an elbow inside that Laiho shrugs off.
Sekish throws an elbow but it misses.
Sekish stalling in the clinch but Laiho improves position.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Sekish.
Laiho tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Sekish avoids it.
Laiho blocks an elbow strike.
Sekish throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Sekish on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Sekish looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Sekish pushes off an throws an elbow but Laiho leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Laiho tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Sekish throws an elbow that misses.
Nice elbow from Sekish.
Laiho tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Laiho throws an elbow but it's blocked.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sekish avoiding damage as Laiho throws knees to the body.
Laiho tries to land a knee to the head but Sekish blocks with his arms.
Sekish blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Laiho takes an elbow to the forehead.
Laiho breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Laiho listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Sekish ducks under a wild hook from Laiho.
Laiho takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor.
Nice straight punches there by Laiho. You know Roy Jones Jr respects the hands of Laiho.
Sekish misses with a series of wild punches.
Laiho lands a body shot.
A big left from Sekish misses.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Sekish checks a low kick. Bone on bone - not my idea of a good time.
Laiho misses with a few strikes there.
Sekish throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Laiho lands with a shot to the body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
That was a close round but I would say that Mustafa Sekish will probably get the nod.
That's time! Back to the action!
Laiho drives through and clinches with Sekish against the cage.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Sekish throws an elbow that misses.
Sekish pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Laiho tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Laiho with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Sekish lands with a light punch inside.
Laiho using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Sekish has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Sekish managing to block the knees to the body from Laiho.
Laiho tries a knee to the head but Sekish blocks it.
Laiho escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Sekish scores with a one two! Laiho had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Sekish takes the fight into the clinch.
Sekish is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Laiho is keeping busy.
Laiho tries a knee to the head but Sekish blocks it.
A short uppercut from Sekish.
Laiho misses with a knee to the head.
Laiho breaks the clinch.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Sekish connects with a good right hand that stumbles Laiho. Laiho circles away out of range and recomposes himself.
Laiho closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Sekish misses with an elbow over the top.
Sekish lands an elbow that stopped Laiho in his tracks for a moment.
Laiho misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Sekish.
Sekish pushes Laiho back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Knees in the clinch landing for Laiho.
Laiho using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Sekish has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Laiho trying to land knees to the body.
Laiho landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Sekish lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Laiho backwards.
Laiho takes an elbow to the temple.
A frustrated look appears on Laiho's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Sekish lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Sekish avoiding damage as Laiho throws knees 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!
Laiho avoids a wild elbow strike from Sekish.
Laiho's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Sekish looks to throw the jab but Laiho is out of range.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Laiho connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.
Mustafa Sekish seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Sekish connects with a looping right hand.
Sekish ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Laiho moves away.
Sekish clinches with his opponent.
Sekish just leaning against Laiho, taking a breather.
Sekish trying to control the position but instead, Laiho has worked for underhooks and has pushed Sekish into the cage.
Laiho tries to land knees in the clinch but Sekish avoids the damage to the body.
Sekish blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Laiho blocks an elbow strike from Sekish.
Laiho blocks an elbow strike from Sekish.
Sekish is trying to maintain a safe position but Laiho gets an underhook and turns Sekish into the cage.
Laiho blocks an elbow strike from Sekish.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Laiho missing with knees to the body.
Laiho is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Sekish is defending well for now.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sekish throws an elbow that misses.
Sekish is looking to control Laiho's arms but Laiho gets an underhook and turns him. Now Sekish has his back to the cage.
Laiho lands a knee to the head.
Laiho tries to land a knee to the head but Sekish blocks with his arms.
Laiho takes an elbow to the forehead.
Sekish trying to control the position but instead, Laiho has worked for underhooks and has pushed Sekish into the cage.
Sekish misses with an elbow over the top.
Laiho trying to land knees to the body.
Laiho with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Laiho escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
The fight moves into the clinch position.
Laiho tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Sekish avoids it.
Sekish lands a nice elbow.
Sekish lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Sekish creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Laiho tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Sekish avoids it.
Laiho using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Sekish has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Sekish throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Laiho using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Sekish has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Laiho wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Sekish lands an elbow inside.
Sekish stalls.
Laiho has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Sekish throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Laiho blocks the elbow strike.
Sekish is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Laiho is defending well for now.
Mustafa Sekish has scored more points in the clinch so far.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Sekish looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Sekish on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Sekish misses with an elbow strike.
Laiho wants to break the clinch but can't.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.
That was a close second round but I would say that Mustafa Sekish will probably get the nod.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin! Ladies and gentlemen, this is the final round!
Sekish throws a right hand that Laiho ducks under and follows up with a left that Laiho also avoids with ease.
Laiho swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Sekish looks to land a left hand but Laiho moved out of range nicely.
Sekish forces Laiho back against the cage and clinches.
Sekish is stalling here.
With the fighters up against the cage, Sekish throws an elbow but misses.
Laiho wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Sekish has him pressed against the cage.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.
Sekish swings wildly with an uppercut but Laiho uses good head movement to avoid it.
Laiho blocks the elbow strike.
Laiho avoids a wild elbow strike from Sekish.
Sekish throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Laihos head.
Laiho connects with a knee to the head.
Sekish looks to throw an elbow but misses.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Laiho lands a knee to the head.
Sekish wants to stall.
Laiho blocks the elbow strike.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Sekish just misses with a elbow thrown towards Laiho's brow.
A short right from Sekish.
Laiho blocks an elbow strike.
Laiho breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Sekish ducks under a wild hook from Laiho.
Laiho connects with a single shot there.
Laiho's jab looks to have found its range, popping Sekish under the eye.
Sekish is rocked!
Sekish misses with a hook
and Laiho counters with a powerful cross that connects right on the chin and the lights go out! A massive one punch knock out!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:47 of round 3, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Alexi Laiho!
Alexi Laiho decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.
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