Chepe Mariscal scored his seventh-straight win on Saturday night time inside The APEX.
Issues obtained off to a quick begin with each fighters assembly in the course of the Octagon and instantly jockeying for place. Jackson landed some stable knees within the clinch and managed a lot of the motion up towards the fence, however Mariscal landed some stable blows whereas soiled boxing. Earlier than lengthy, each fighters had been shedding blood. Mariscal moreso on account of a conflict of heads within the opening spherical.
Issues picked up proper the place they left off within the first, however a low blow to Mariscal introduced a short pause within the motion. Mariscal managed to journey up Jackson midway by way of the spherical and landed some huge ground-and-pound strikes as Jackson desperately tried to scramble. Jackson made it by way of the spherical, however absorbed effectively over 70 strikes on the bottom from Mariscal within the course of.
Regardless of the beating he took within the second stanza, Jackson appeared recent, but it surely didn’t take lengthy for Mariscal to finish a double leg, placing Jackson on the person lower than 90 seconds into the scrap. Nevertheless, Jackson rapidly reversed issues and briefly took Mariscal’s again. The place didn’t final lengthy as Mariscal scrambled and obtained again to his ft.
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than Marsical was in a position to work Jackson again right down to the mat and proceed lighting up his opponent with floor strikes. Jackson by no means stopped transferring to maintain Mariscal from unloading on him, however because of this, Jackson was by no means in a position to get his offense going, leaving it fairly clear who would stroll away the winner on the scorecards.
Official End result: Chepe Mariscal def. Damon Jackson through unanimous determination (30-25, 30-25, 30-26)
