Jardine vs. Day

[The Sandmen]

Keith Jardine looks like he has been waiting for this fight forever.
Jason Day glares at his opponent from the opposite corner.
This is the first time they meet inside the cage
Keith Jardine is the better fighter in my opinion. It would be an upset if he loses today.
The referee of the bout is Steve Mazzagatti.

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Round 1
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The fight gets underway.


Brilliant combination from Jason Day
Jardine is showing some dodging skills avoiding that ones.
Day misses a step and Keith Jardine sees an opportunity to counter him!
Superb haymaker by Jardine
that lands on Day's face like a cannon ball!


Jardine wants to close the range and tries to grapple...
Nice move. He shoves himself over his opponent and secure a single collar tie.
Day doesn't want to clinch as he ducks under Keith Jardine embrace and tries to move away...
Keith Jardine pushes Day forward and doesn't allow him to break the clinch.


Both fighters are tied in a clinch.
Jason Day pushes away Jardine trying to keep the fight at striking range
Jardine doesn't want to break the clinch as he still is grappling with Jason Day


The fighters are clinching.
Day gets himself into good position and looks to change levels for the takedown...
Keith Jardine doesn't let Jason Day get in on his legs.
The referee intervenes to break the clinch.


Solid kick to the leg from Keith Jardine
that visibly pains Day.


The clock says 1:05 in the 1 round
Jardine looks for angles as he throws a few jabs that are countered by Jason Day's punches
Day is on the receiving end of a great combo by Jardine.


Day launches a kick
but Keith Jardine avoids it and lands flush with a counter hook!


The clock says 1:25 in the 1 round
Jardine is holding Jason Day's right leg... He's trying to take him down.
Jason Day loses balance and goes to the ground.


Keith Jardine is in side mount over Jason Day
Keith Jardine looks to mount Jason Day...
Keith Jardine slides his knee across and gets to mount.


Keith Jardine is in full mount over Jason Day
Jardine fakes a few punches and after a brief struggle he catches Jason Day's arm and tries an armbar!
Day holds his own hand and with pure strength he breaks Day's lock. He rolls over himself and launches over Keith Jardine.


Jason Day is in side mount over Keith Jardine
Keith Jardine attempts to trap Jason Day in his guard.
Keith Jardine manages to switch to half guard.


Jason Day is in half guard over Jardine
Jason Day hooks Jardine's left leg and sits back for a kneebar!
Keith Jardine manages to kick Day away and scrambles on top!


The clock says 2:15 in the 1 round
Keith Jardine is in open guard over Day
Keith Jardine aggressively and repeatedly punches Day.
He needs to do something soon or the referee will stop the fight!


Keith Jardine is in open guard over Day
Jason Day gets an arm and tries to apply an armbar. Jardine spins out, but Jason Day was ready for that and quickly switches to a triangle choke!
Jardine is too good and managed to back out of danger.
Steve Mazzagatti halts the fight to stand up Jason Day. The fight resumes with both fighters standing.
Both fighters continue the fight on their feet. You can hear how the people agree with that decision.


Jason Day jabs at Jardine
to no visible effect.
Day misses a step and Keith Jardine sees an opportunity to counter him!
Keith Jardine throws a looping right hand...
That lands on Day's chin! That stops Day in his tracks!


Jardine and Day circle around the center of the cage.


Jason Day fakes a punch and shows some footwork moving aside.


Keith Jardine moves forward looking for a hole in his opponent's defense.
Jardine moves forward looking for some action
Keith Jardine shows some wrestling skills as he put his opponent in a double overhook!
Jason Day tries to shrug his way out of the clinch.
Jardine is determined to work from the clinch. He pummeled through and managed to retain his position.


The clock says 3:20 in the 1 round
The fighters are clinching.
Day tries to breaks Keith Jardine's resistence with a few punches while tries to push him against oner corner.
Day doesn't find the right way... He have to improve his position for causing any real damage
Steve Mazzagatti sees a lack of activity in the clinch and separates the fighters.


Some counter punches against Keith Jardine
almost hit him as he moves away.


The clock says 3:45 in the 1 round
Jardine looks for angles as he throws a few jabs that are countered by Jason Day's punches
Jardine measures the resilience of Day's chin with an uppercut while Day lands some great crosses.


A bad move from Jason Day
allows Jardine to land a solid head kick.
Day's Right eye is beginning to swell


Keith Jardine tries a high kick!
Day was covering for a middle kick but that one almost knocked off his head!
Steve Mazzagatti has seen enough! The fight is over! Day was not intelligently defending himself!
Day's Left cheek is bruised after the punishement he's received!

Winner is Keith Jardine by TKO (High kick) at 4:21 Round 1

Statistics: Keith Jardine
Punches 7/8 (88%)
Kicks 3/3 (100%)
Clinch strikes 0/0 (0%)
Takedowns 1/1 (100%)
GnP strikes 4/5 (80%)
Submissions 1/1 (100%)
Clinch Attempts 0/0 (0%)
Time on the ground 63 s

Statistics: Jason Day
Punches 2/11 (18%)
Kicks 0/0 (0%)
Clinch strikes 0/2 (0%)
Takedowns 0/1 (0%)
GnP strikes 0/0 (0%)
Submissions 2/2 (100%)
Clinch Attempts 0/0 (0%)
Time on the ground 63 s

[The Rocketmen]

I like that Keith Jardine won. God dammit. Why didn't I think to draft the Dean of Mean?!

[The Sandmen]

Because he was a scrub who had a couple good fights, then lost to everyone under the sun, thus having no real place amongst the best of all time here at ManMMA. Something along those lines?

[The Rocketmen]

OH, right, forgot he's not the dancing Viking guy in real life.

[The Sandmen]

Correct.

[The Rocketmen]

[The Sandmen]

Haha, see I never thought that looked anything like Keith Jardine. People at the internet are strange.

[The Rocketmen]

[xx - Team GAP]

Can i draft the dean of mean due to the team expansion?

[The Sandmen]

Sept 5, 2016 16:03:43 GMT -5 xx - Team GAP said:

Can i draft the dean of mean due to the team expansion?

1) You are technically a day late, but I'm nice so you can take someone else if you want, but...

2) You are constantly disappointed with how bad your team does. Keith Jardine won't make your team better. In fact, about 90% of the free agents are notably better than Keith Jardine. So it's one of those situations where you can choose a project fighter you like who will lose for a while, or an established fighter who might win right off the bat. But you won't have much ground to stand on if you take Keith then start complaining about how poorly your team is doing. Keith will require a lot of points to be half-decent. Those points could be used to make fighter you have (or a different free agent) good, rather than shovelling them into a mid-card-at-best project fighter like Keith Jardine.

[xx - Team GAP]

Sorry... thought i still had a couple more days left to make mg decision... oops.. ill make my decision todah if its cool. If if isnf cool say so and i can lose out... doesnt bother me one way or another

[The Sandmen]

Sept 5, 2016 18:34:27 GMT -5 xx - Team GAP said:

Sorry... thought i still had a couple more days left to make mg decision... oops.. ill make my decision todah if its cool. If if isnf cool say so and i can lose out... doesnt bother me one way or another

It's fine. Though if it doesn't bother you one way or another, you should take someone other than Keith, so your team stats don't get worse "Keith Jardine - The Dean of Keeping Your Ass Out of the Grand Prix"

[xx - Team GAP]

I took Bob Sapp

[The Sandmen]

You sure did.