PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Ima Dick (ranked 7211 p4p, 5285 weight class) and Joseph Starling (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Joseph Starling will no doubt be looking to use his reach advantage to good effect.

Dick
vs
Starling

185 cm
26
250
1 - 0 - 0

198 cm
18
276
0 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Basic striking
Very quick

BJJ Blue Belt
Good kicks
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Ima Dick!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of St Petersburg, Joseph Starling !
The judges for this bout are Viktor Lagutenko, Valeri Chadov and Sergei Dronov.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Dick manages to get an easy takedown there - catching Starling on his heels. He'll look to pass Starling 's guard now, I'm sure.
Dick is just sitting in guard, looking to avoid any submissions.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Dick scores with a decent looking elbow strike.
Dick preventing the sweep.
Starling looking to control.
Dick has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Dick scoring with punches to the head and body.
Starling looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Dick prevents Starling from getting back to his feet.
Starling trying to control the position.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Dick lands a couple of elbows.
Dick with a couple of shots to the head there. Not particularly brutal.
Dick landing some decent shots from guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Dick landing some decent shots from guard.
Dick postures up and lands a big shot to Starling 's brow.
Dick lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Dick is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Dick makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.

Starling is throwing his legs up, looking for submissions. Dick is aware though and is defending well.
Dick is working Starling over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
Dick might be looking to lock onto one of his opponent's long limbs for a submission, whilst we're on the ground.
Dick postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Dick chips away with some ground and pound.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Dick sitting in guard here, content to control.
Dick passes easily into side control. Nice work.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Dick in side control lands a decent elbow.
Dick landing strikes.
Starling taking punishment in the form of punches.
Starling wants to control but Dick postures up.
Dick is staying tight to Starling 's torso, preventing him from escaping.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Dick wants to lay and pray for a moment but Starling keeps working.
Check out the look on Dick's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Dick scoring with punches and elbows.
Dick working away.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Starling tries to bench press Dick off him but Dick keeps the position.
A lull in the action here.
Dick is working Starling over with some ground and pound from side control.
Starling tries to buck Dick off but Dick is having none of it.
Starling really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Dick. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Dick scoring with punches from side control.
Dick scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Starling to see if he's OK.
Dick lands some shots froms side control.
Starling gets back to half guard.
Dick seems to be taking a bit of a break to think of his next move. He lands a short punch in the meantime.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Dick 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.
Dick is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Dick is keeping good posture, landing some ground and pound.
Dick lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Nice strikes from Dick there.

Starling is rocked!
Dick lands a big elbow from half guard. That looks like it's hurt Starling quite badly. Starling pulls Dick in close trying to recover. Dick postures up and lands two really hard shots that put Starling on queer street! The ref takes a look and decides to call an end to the fight! Possibly an early stoppage but Starling doesn't seem to be complaining too much.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ima Dick!