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 Brought to you by the writing team that has promoted cards for Trinity, Highland Games, Casino Fight Nights, and Isand Combat comes the Main Event Preview for Bravado Productions 1.
If you know anything about Hoarseplay Writing Productions, you know that we typically put the majority of our focus on the main event, although every fighter is given his time in the spot light as well. However, due to the length of a Hoarseplay main event, we submit only the main fight (sometimes the co-main event as well) to keep the overall product length within a reasonable margin.
So, with no further ado whatsoever, here is the preview:
(Middleweight Division) Adam Holt (4-1-1) versus Marcus Browne (8-2)
Originally from Spydeberg, Norway, Adam Holt was raised in an athletic family. With a professional boxer for a father, a Judo practitioner and gymnast for a mother, and two track stars for siblings, one would expect Adam to display a modicum of natural athletic ability as well. However, for Adam, such things did not come naturally.
As a young child, Adam spent a lot of time as a cleaner in his father's boxing gym, although he did participate in frequent classes as he got older. For Adam, boxing classes were more of a sport than a career option, and he never humored the idea of going forward with the Sweet Science, as his father had done. Much later in his life, Adam would credit this early time in the gym as the foundation for his eventual abilities.
When the growing sport of mixed martial arts caught his eye, Adam quickly became enamored with the fast paced action and the unpredictability of it all. As a result of this new interest, Adam began taking wrestling classes at a local MMA academy in town, but he focused primarily on his boxing, which he began training more stringently. Although he wasn't quite ready to realize it yet, Adam Holt was on the road to becoming a true mixed martial artist.
As fate would have it, the gym that was offering wrestling classes had an opening on their professional fight team. They were willing to humor anybody that wanted to participate in the tryouts, although they requested that you at least have some martial arts experience. Adam mostly intended to only watch the action rather than actually try out. However, after several would be fighters made their bid to join the fight team, Adam realized that the average level of talent in his area was remarkably low. He commented this to his friend; his comments were overheard by one of the coaches that was standing nearby, and he was invited to put his money where his mouth is.
After initially refusing to participate, Adam finally relented and changed into some spare board shorts, donned a pair of borrowed gloves, and climbed into the cage for his turn in the smoker. His opponent was obviously a self-proclaimed tough guy- a brawler that spent more time swinging wildly in the barroom than connecting with punching mitts. Adam easily avoided everything the slugger threw at him, using the fundamentals that his father had impressed upon him. Adam scored a takedown, ducking under a Roy Nelson-esque overhand right, and pinned his foe against the cage, landing pitter patter ground and pound until the supervising coach pulled them apart. Adam was quickly brought into the official fight team of the LOD: Black Label gym.
It became quickly apparent in the gym that Adam's family had influenced him in all the right ways: he had his father's boxing, some of his mother's grappling technique, and the cardio to keep up with his brothers. The coaching staff at the LOD: Black Label elite fighting gym quickly set Adam up with a professional fight, knowing that they had a future world champion in the making.
Making his debut in a dimly lit parking lot regional show, Adam Holt was matched up against 0-4 Jiu-Jitsu blue belt Alec Norris. Holt, who had been training Jiu-Jitsu exclusively, injured his right hand- his power hand- while preparing for this fight, and thus spent the entirety of his professional debut fruitlessly attempting to wrestle with his opponent. Although he would score some takedowns during the fight, Adam Holt ultimately lost the bout via lopsided unanimous decision.
Adam Holt was linked up with the Australian based Sydney Fighting Club. In his promotional debut, Adam faced 1-0 Rocky Rendulic, a strong wrestler from Brisbane- Holt would struggle with the wrestling of Rendlic, but would ultimately rebound late in the fight. In the end, the match was declared a draw, and an immediate rematch was booked between the two men. In the rematch, Holt would comfortably win two of the three rounds by keeping his distance and landing crisp, straight punches- although he dominated in the clinch as well.
Next, Adam faced off against the very experienced Muay Thai striker Andrew Tran. A veteran of over twenty fights, Tran struggled to keep up with the early aggression of Holt, and would fall before the heavy handed slugger late in the second round. After scoring a lightning quick first round knockout over the well rounded Bryce Fellows, Adam Holt faced the toughest opponent of his professional career in Jackson Brash.
Brash was coming off of four dominant victories, including three brutal stoppages, and was considered a major favorite in his meeting with Holt. For his part, Adam Holt ignored the fanfare, ignored the expectations, and put on an absolute boxing clinic. Pumping the jab like it would cure cancer, Adam Holt never allowed Jackson Brash to settle into any sort of effective pace, keeping him off balance and swinging at air throughout the fight. As the abrasions began to pile up on the face of Jackson Brash, the ringside doctor declared that the nose of Brash was too badly broken, and that too much blood was leaving his body, and thus stopped the fight. Adam Holt had shocked the world with an upset victory in what would be his final appearance with the Sydney based promotion.
Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Marcus Browne was known in the rougher parts of Chicago for being the kind of kid that was looking to get into trouble. Always just one unfortunate choice of words away from throwing hands with whoever crossed his path, Marcus Browne had little in the way of ambitions for his future. After his tenth arrest stemming from street fighting, Marcus's parents enrolled him in a boxing class- mostly with the idea of letting him get beaten up by a trained and thus tougher kid, with the hopes that such an experience would set Marcus straight. The plan sort of worked: Marcus quickly fell in love with the sweet science, and started spending all of his free time down at the gym, practicing as frequently as they would let him climb into the ring.
After taking a series of amateur boxing bouts, Marcus accepted a last minute fight in a local mixed martial arts show- he had been in the audience drinking a beer when one of the fighters backed out. Marcus faced off against Aaron Mcguire, a Jiu-Jitsu blue belt that had been expecting to face a timid Collegiate wrestler. Instead, Mcguire faced a brash, trash talking, aggressive Marcus Browne. Marcus paid little respect to the seven fight veteran, cornering him against the cage and battering him with heavy punches. Just as the referee looked as though he was planning to call the match, Browne landed an uppercut that left Mcguire out cold stretched, not forty seconds into the opening round.
“This is way easier than getting boxing fights!” Browne was quoted as saying, while he signed up for the next card that the local show was planning to put on.
Marcus faced Leonard Bradley and Heath Slater within three days of each other- each man was the veteran of half a dozen professional fights, yet neither man made it past the fifteen second mark. Next, Marcus put on a striking clinic against Zackary Glenn, a strong Jiu-Jitsu prospect.
In his fifth mixed martial arts fight, Marcus Browne faced former professional boxer and regional light-heavyweight champion Derek Mitchell, who was fighting for the second time in MMA. Although Browne was badly hurt in the early goings of the fight, he survived late into the round before succumbing to a series of right crosses that put Browne out cold.
Marcus Browne fought once more in the smaller shows, knocking out a notorious street brawler by the name of Michael Thompson. Despite his previous knockout defeat, Browne had earned the recognition of the Sovereignty promotion- after some negotiations, Browne was signed to an exclusive contract with the company.
In his SVR debut, Marcus squared off against the heavy handed Demetrious Maxuimus in a highly anticipated match. With the stakes higher than they had ever been for Marcus Browne, the heavy handed slugger from Chicago came out swinging for the fences, knocking Maxuimus out cold in just twelve seconds. Following it up with another lightning fast stoppage, this time over Frank Ender, Marcus took a big step up in competition when he faced off against Arnoldur Dimotroglu- a former Olympic wrestling hopeful and undefeated mixed martial artist.
The legendary clash took place at SVR 4. Dimotroglu scored an early takedown into the guard of Browne and started working him over with damaging ground and pound. Browne showed a new wrinkle in his game when he reversed the future middleweight champion, landing himself on top in guard. As Browne attempted to hold on and force a standup, the collegiate wrestler reversed back to the top position and started landing ground and pound again, hurting Browne and forcing a stoppage midway through the opening round.
The two warriors would go opposite directions in their career following this fight; Dimotroglu would go on to win the middleweight championship by stopping Drederik Tatum, and Browne would fight just once more for the promotion, knocking out James Dean.
[A closer look]
(Adam Holt)
Age: 27
Started Fighting At: 25
Record: 4-1-1
Knockouts: 3
Submissions: 0
Total Opponent Record: 18-48-2
Style: Boxing, Wrestling
(Marcus Browne)
Age: 27
Started Fighting At: 25
Record: 8-2
Knockouts: 8
Submissions: 0
Total Opponent Record: 20-36-1
Style: Boxing
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