PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Jimi Tank (ranked 6867 p4p, 5469 weight class) and Conor McGregor (ranked 575 p4p, 513 weight class). McGregor has chosen Notorious as his entrance music. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Tank
vs
McGregor

178 cm
25
162
0 - 1 - 0

175 cm
22
155
0 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Great elbows
Self confident

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Heavy handed

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Jimi Tank!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Conor McGregor!
The judges for this bout are Marco Blurström, Johanna Lukiainen and Ben Zyskovitsi.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

McGregor has taken the fight to the clinch.
McGregor takes an elbow to the temple.
McGregor misses with the head strike.
Tank creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through McGregor's defenses.
McGregor takes an elbow to the temple.
Tank lands an elbow that stopped McGregor in his tracks for a moment.
Tank keeps control of McGregor as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
McGregor tries to throw a body punch but Tank avoids it by throwing McGregor back against the cage.
McGregor looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Tank lands an elbow that stopped McGregor in his tracks for a moment.
McGregor has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Tank connects with a knee to the head.
Tank lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
A battle for position here, against the cage.
McGregor wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Tank connects with a knee to the head.
McGregor takes an elbow to the temple.
Tank with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Tank lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Tank landing knees to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Tank lands a nice elbow.
Tank is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
McGregor looks winded!
McGregor looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Tank stalling the fight.
Tank lands a nice knee to the body.
Tank lands an elbow inside.
McGregor fails to pull guard.
Tank using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Tank lands an elbow that stopped McGregor in his tracks for a moment.
Tank lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
McGregor can't break the clinch.
Tank unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Tank comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Tank lands a good knee to the midsection. McGregor won't want to take too many of those.
Tank lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Tank connects with a nasty looking knee right to McGregor's face.
Tank with a knee to the head.
Tank unloads a knee to the mid-section.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
McGregor takes a knee right on the jaw!

McGregor is rocked!
Tank gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
McGregor is still on wobbly legs! Can Tank finish him?
Tank looks to be in better condition than last time we saw him fight. Obviously he's been working hard on his cardio.
Tank lands an elbow that stopped McGregor in his tracks for a moment.
Tank comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Tank lands a knee to the head.
Tank landing knees to the head.
Tank connects with a nasty looking knee right to McGregor's face.
Tank lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Nice elbow from Tank.
Tank lands a damaging elbow.
Tank lands an elbow that stopped McGregor in his tracks for a moment.
Tank taking a break, stalling in the clinch.
Tank landing knees to the head.
Tank creates some distance and fires off a vicious elbow that drops McGregor! He pounces and finishes the fight with more strikes! Nice KO for Tank.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Jimi Tank!
A very excited looking Jimi Tank 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.
The defeated Conor McGregor had this to say: 'He was the better fighter tonight, congrats'.