PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Dempsey O’Neill (ranked 578 p4p, 1417 weight class) and Riyu Mendes (ranked 84 p4p, 199 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

O’Neill
vs
Mendes

189 cm
24
205
9 - 3 - 0

188 cm
24
206
9 - 8 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Brown Belt
World class MT
Good gas tank

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 9 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Dempsey O’Neill!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Riyu Mendes!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Jack Bonds and Timothy Bukovac.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mendes lands a head shot.

O’Neill moves into the clinch successfully.
Mendes misses with a hook to the ribs.
O’Neill working aggressively here.
O’Neill pushes Mendes back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
O’Neill softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Mendes struggles to land a body shot inside as O’Neill controls his hands.
Mendes is looking for a takedown.
O’Neill throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Mendess head.
O’Neill pushes Mendes back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
Mendes tries to throw a body punch but O’Neill avoids it by throwing Mendes back against the cage.
Mendes doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Mendes presses O’Neill against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.
Mendes misses with some punches.
Still in the clinch, Mendes scores with a nice short uppercut.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
O’Neill lands a left hand.
Mendes is working for takedown but O’Neill is calmly controlling the position for now.
O’Neill working aggressively here.
A head punch blocked on the inside by O’Neill.
O’Neill lands a body shot.
O’Neill misses with a punch to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A nice left hand lands by O’Neill.
O’Neill fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Mendes tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
O’Neill pushes Mendes back against the cage and lands a hook to the side of the head.
O’Neill lands a right hand.
O’Neill lands a hook to the side of the head.
O’Neill lands a nice shot to the body.
Mendes swings away with an uppercut that misses.
O’Neill is pressed up against the cage. Mendes has hold of a leg and is looking to drag O’Neill down to the mat. O’Neill avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
Dempsey O’Neill has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Riyu Mendes.
O’Neill swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Mendes appeared to try and counter that last move with a leg kick.
O’Neill thuds his right hand into Mendes's forehead from close range. That could be painful for both fighters.
Mendes tries to land a leg kick but O’Neill saw it coming and moves away.
Mendes keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
Mendes counters with a body kick.
Dempsey O’Neill seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
O’Neill misses the jab.
Mendes looks like he wants to counter punch here.
O’Neill connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
O’Neill avoids the head kick by Mendes.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Mendes throws a sloppy head kick

and O’Neill counters with a crisp right hand that drops Mendes! O’Neill lets Mendes back up to his feet, looking for a finish!

Mendes is rocked!
O’Neill fakes the leg kick and throws a superman punch. It's knocked Mendes out cold! Brutal finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:25 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Superman Punch). Dempsey O’Neill!
A very excited looking Dempsey O’Neill made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.