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Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Tamid Nasib (ranked 609 p4p, 74 weight class) and Chief Navajo (ranked 1424 p4p, 156 weight class). Tamid Nasib has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?
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146 lbs
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154 lbs
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BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
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Counter fighter
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, for the featherweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
8 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Tamid Nasib!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Chief Navajo!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Shigeki Fujiwara and Hirohito Nitta.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nasib rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Navajo moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Navajo looking to shoot here. He's gone for it and he's landed a takedown into side control! Oh, that's bad for Nasib!
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
Navajo working the ground and pound.
Nasib managing to avoid any damage from the strikes thrown by Navajo.
Navajo working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Navajo has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
The ground and pound from Navajo seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.
Nasib is trying to improve his position.
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Navajo cracks Nasib with a big elbow.
Navajo working the head with strikes.
That's one minute gone in the round.
An elbow from Navajo crashes against the mat.
Navajo scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Nasib to see if he's OK.
Nasib takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
Navajo fails to land a wild elbow strike.
Navajo throws a knee to the body but it doesn't do much damage.
Navajo in side control, trying to ground and pound but not landing this time.
Nasib takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
Nasib on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Nasib avoids any damage from the ground and pound of Navajo.
Navajo throwing ground and pound but whilst doing so, he forgets to control position and Nasib works his way back to half guard. Good composure under pressure.
Navajo not landing any meaningful shots this time.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Navajo throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Nasib avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Navajo.
Navajo throwing shots but Nasib is blocking nicely.
Navajo thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Nasib's head.
Navajo is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Navajo drops an elbow to the side of Nasib's head.
Navajo thows a wild elbow that connects with the canvas.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Navajo not landing any meaningful shots this time.
Navajo looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Nasib with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Nasib trying to control but Navajo postures up.
Navajo thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Nasib's head.
That's three minutes gone in the round.
Navajo 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.
Navajo looks to land a strike but Nasib avoids it nicely and regains full guard.
Navajo with a nice head shot there.
Navajo postures up to throw the ground and pound strikes but they don't connect.
Navajo landing with the ground and pound.
Navajo throwing strikes from guard but Nasib blocks nicely.
Navajo throwing strikes but missing.
Navajo throwing elbows and punches but not connecting, as Nasib works some decent striking defense from the bottom.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Navajo accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Navajo accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
That's four minutes gone in the round.
Navajo with a flurry of punches that miss.
Navajo throws a big elbow that misses.
Navajo landing with the ground and pound.
Navajo pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Nasib is keeping the position for now.
Nasib has a closed guard, preventing anything of note from happening. Perhaps he's looking to stall.
Navajo trying to land body shots but he keeps hitting the mat.
Navajo postures up and lands a big shot to Nasib's brow.
Navajo throws a strike but Nasib rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Navajo is working for submissions here. He's thrown up his legs looking for a triangle but Nasib frees his head nicely. Oh but Navajo has switched to an armbar! Nasib is tapping furiously! Lovely submission there!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Triangle Armbar). Chief Navajo!
Chief Navajo is the new featherweight champion!
A relieved looking Chief Navajo thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.
Tamid Nasib spoke after the fight, saying 'Thanks for coming..I'll be back'.
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RATING
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