PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Mark Hopkins (ranked 5019 p4p, 24623 weight class) and Mori Ren (ranked 510 p4p, 548 weight class). Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Hopkins
vs
Ren

173 cm
18
155
1 - 0 - 0

175 cm
25
160
0 - 2 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Determined

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 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Mark Hopkins!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Mori Ren!
The judges for this bout are Steve Montenegro, John Roberts and Columbo Gatti.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Hopkins uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Ren has time to react.
Ren scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Hopkins definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
Ren takes one on the button.
Ren throws a left and a right that both miss
and Hopkins connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.

Ren is rocked!
Ren showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Hopkins.
Ren is still on wobbly legs! Can Hopkins finish him?
Ren gets clipped by a big right hand and goes down spinning to the canvas! Hopkins gets the back mount and begins to drop bombs on his rocked foe! Ren is too out of it to defend against the strikes and the referee jumps in to save him from the beatdown!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:20 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mark Hopkins!
Mark Hopkins seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.