PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Kali Turner (ranked 2588 p4p, 2174 weight class) and Long Wang (ranked 325 p4p, 0 weight class). Wang comes into a darkened arena with his song building. ﴾ ᴿᴲᴰ ﴿ kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Kali Turner has the better chin. Will he look to stand and bang today?

Turner
vs
Wang

200 cm
29
200
8 - 12 - 0

180 cm
36
210
7 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Good chin

Olympic wrestler
World class boxer
Powerful

Conviction

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 8 - 12 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Kali Turner!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Long Wang!
The judges for this bout are Wesley Smith, Chris Downing and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Wang connects nicely with a jab. Noted by the judges no doubt.

Wang closes the distance and gets a trip takedown into side control. Turner quickly recovers to half guard.

Turner makes some distance and scrambles quickly back to his feet. Nice work!
We've been hearing reports that Turner has been drilling takedowns in recent sessions so let's see if that has an impact on the result of this fight.

Wang gets a takedown into half guard.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Wang missing with the ground and pound from half guard.
Wang lands a big shot. The thud that echoes around the arena is like music to the fans' ears.
Wang not doing much here.

Turner is defending against the submission attempts here by Wang.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Wang controlling the action here.
Turner is trying to control but can't.
Still in half guard, Wang seems content to control.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
It looks like Wang might be adopting somewhat of a lay and pray gameplan here, which I'm sure won't go down too well with the paying fans in attendance... Or the ring announcers come to think of it.
We may be looking at a referee standup if the pace doesn't pick up soon.
Let's hope that Wang has the urge to step up the pace any second now because for the last 15 or 20 seconds he's just been holding on tight.

The referee has decided to stand the fighters back up, so we'll restart on the feet.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Wang bobs and weaves and unloads with a good uppercut.
Sloppy strikes from Wang. Those never looked like landing.

Wang shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Wang showed some decent athleticism there.
Wang is figuring out what he wants to do next.
Wang works his way into side control.
Turner is breathing heavily.
Wang in side control, just content to control the action for now.

Wang tries for an arm triangle. That looks pretty tight to me. Is this one over!?! Possibly, maybe, no Wang has let go of the choke. Obviously it wasn't as tight as we thought!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Wang is pausing for a moment. What's he doing? It looks like he's clearing his nose. Oh dude! He's shot a load of snot all down Turner's shoulder. That is not cool.
Wang working the body and head with strikes.
The crowd thankful this round is nearly over.

Wang has hold of Turner's arm. He's looking for a kimura. Turner seems comfortable defending it but Wang has shifted his position slighty and is cranking on the arm! Turner is real pain and he's forced to tap out! Turner is disgusted with himself for not defending it better but Wang couldn't care less - he's delighted!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). Long Wang!
An out of breath Long Wang thanked his loyal fans in his post fight interview, giving them credit for his success over the course of his career.
Kali Turner spoke after the fight, saying 'fuck that nigga'.