PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Night Hawk (ranked 4714 p4p, 0 weight class) and Dolph Mercury (ranked 5209 p4p, 0 weight class). We have two fighters making their debuts here, so let's see who comes out of this one with their first professional victory.

Hawk
vs
Mercury

188 cm
18
213 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

181 cm
25
220 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Cuts easily

Decent wrestler
Decent boxing
Prefers standup

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Night Hawk!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Dolph Mercury!
The judges for this bout are Colin Fotheringham, Sam Margolis and Andrew Berry.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mercury avoids a punch combination nicely.
Hawk sets himself, and Mercury steps forward looking for the clinch! Hawk avoids it this time.
Night Hawk seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Hawk lands an overhand right.
Hawk scores with a jab.
Jab, jab by Hawk - just one landing.
Hawk moves into range and throws a lovely three punch combination.
Good shot there by Hawk.

Hawk closes the distance and clinches.
Hawk misses with a hook from the clinch.
Mercury takes a shot to the head.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Mercury blocking some punches.
Mercury misses with an elbow strike.
Hawk misses with a hook from the clinch.
Hawk scores with a shoulder strike.
Mercury lands a body shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hawk scores with a shot to the side of Mercury's head.
Hawk misses with a punch on the inside.
Mercury has Hawk pushed against the cage.
The referee is keeping an eye on Mercury - much more stalling and he will separate the fighters.
Mercury content to slow the pace in the clinch.
Mercury lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Mercury blocks an uppercut.
Mercury blocking some punches.
Mercury has Hawk pressed against the cage.
Mercury dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
The crowd are getting on Mercury's back here. They're not happy about his lack of aggression in the clinch.
Hawk throws a head punch that misses.
Hawk is looking to control Mercury's arms but Mercury gets an underhook and turns him. Now Hawk has his back to the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mercury gets through Hawk's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
With the fighters up against the cage, Mercury throws an elbow but misses.
Mercury working some nice short punches in the clinch.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Mercury.
Hawk swings wildly with an uppercut but Mercury uses good head movement to avoid it.
Mercury is stalling here.
Hawk blocks an elbow strike.
Mercury controlling the action here for a moment.
Hawk swings wildly with an uppercut but Mercury uses good head movement to avoid it.
Mercury throws an elbow but it misses.
Mercury just leaning against Hawk, taking a breather.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hawk is trying to stall.
Mercury misses with an elbow over the top.
Hawk throws a head punch that misses.
Stalling in the clinch from Mercury.
Hawk letting Mercury take a breather here.
The ref breaks the fighters up, due to lack of action by Dolph Mercury.
Mercury pushing out the jab but it's not landing.

Mercury gets tackled into the cage by Hawk. Hawk maintains the clinch.
Mercury lands an elbow just above Hawk 's eye.

It looks like Night Hawk has been cut.
Hawk tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Hawk.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Mercury just misses with a elbow thrown towards Hawk's brow.
Hawk dodges an elbow strike from Mercury.
Mercury pressing his opponent against the cage.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Mercury.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Stalling in the clinch from Mercury.
Mercury leaning his opponent against the cage.
Mercury receives a warning from the referee for stalling.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Mercury.
Hawk takes an elbow to the temple.
Hawk has a couple of punches blocked by Mercury.
Mercury blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Hawk lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
Hawk misses with some punches.
Mercury blocking some punches.
Hawk misses with some punches.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Hawk is trying to maintain a safe position but Mercury gets an underhook and turns Hawk into the cage.
Mercury lands punches inside but they're not really causing much damage.
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 Night Hawk will probably get the nod.
The cut man is working on Night Hawk's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

The crowd cheers as Hawk lands an impressive looking overhand right. Mercury doesn't seem phased though.

Night Hawk's cut is getting worse.
Hawk swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Mercury dodges the punch combination from Hawk.
Jab by Hawk.
Nice defenses there by Hawk.
Night Hawk is winning the standup battle so far.
Mercury throws a shot from downtown. Hawk moves away and avoids it.
Hawk throws a hook but Mercury avoids it easily.
Mercury takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Hawk throws a big shot that misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Hawk shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Mercury eats them both and turns towards Hawk to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Mercury walks into a stiff left hand from Hawk.
Mercury works the jab nicely.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Mercury on the wrong end of a nice jab.

Mercury has taken the fight to the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Hawk blocks an elbow strike from Mercury.
Mercury stalls.
Mercury is pushing Hawk up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Hawk lands an uppercut.
Mercury has Hawk pressed against the cage.
Mercury lands an elbow inside.

The referee calls the doctor in to look at Night Hawk's cut. Oh no, the doctor has called an end to the bout!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:51 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Cut). Dolph Mercury!
A very excited looking Dolph Mercury rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.