PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Demarques Mills (ranked 3664 p4p, 4086 weight class) and Amara Kan (ranked 440 p4p, 479 weight class). Mills kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Kurt Angle - Medal (Entrance Theme). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Mills
vs
Kan

191 cm
19
255
1 - 0 - 0

225 cm
19
265
1 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Brawler
Big heart

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

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 Las Vegas, Demarques Mills!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Amara Kan!
The judges for this bout are Tarja Halkonen, Ben Zyskovitsi and Marco Blurström.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Kan gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Mills scoring with some ground and pound.
Kan keeping moving, preventing Mills from controlling successfully.
Mills lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Mills is working Kan over from the guard. He should look to pass the guard and do a little more damage with these strikes.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Mills pushing down on Kan's thigh, trying to pass to half guard. He's managed it... Nice work.
Kan is trying to maintain the position but Mills is very close to passing his half guard.
Kan is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Mills scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Kan works his way to full guard. Good work.
Kan working a defensive guard here.
Mills pressing down on his opponent's thigh, looking to pass guard. Kan is keeping the position for now.

Kan looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Mills is working the ground and pound from guard. He might want to try advancing position though to get more of an impact.

Kan isolates an arm and boxes in a triangle. Mills stacks Kan on his neck as he steps over and passes to the side. He's now in a much more dominant position where he can look to do some serious damage. Nice move by Mills!
You can see the frustration on Kan's face as Mills controls the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Kan can't do much from the bottom here.
Mills 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.
Mills creates a bit of distance and throws down some hard shots.
Kan looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
Mills working away.
Mills lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Kan down.
Kan is trying to control Mills's posture but Mills avoids it.
Mills wants to control but Kan is keeping him busy.
Mills working the ground and pound.
Mills lands some shots froms side control.
Kan prevents Mills from moving into mount.
Kan can't do much from the bottom here.

Mills is trying to get an arm triangle but Kan is defending well.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Kan struggling a bit here.
Mills trying to control the action but Kan is working from the bottom.
Kan wants to control but Mills postures up.

Mills looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Kan struggling a bit here.
Mills working the head and body with strikes.
Kan is trying to improve his position.
Mills just content to control the position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Mills is trying to get an arm triangle but Kan is defending well.
Mills wants to control but Kan is keeping him busy.
Kan is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Kan wants to control but Mills postures up.

Mills thinks about going for a far side armbar but bails out and retains the dominant position instead.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Mills working away.
Kan is trying to avoid being dragged into an even worse position than he's already in but Mills is staying active.
Kan is positioning himself to get back to half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are showing their displeasure at the lack of action as loud boos ring out around the arena.
Kan takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Mills has knee on belly and moves into mount.
Mills tries to control but Kan wriggling away.
Kan tries to hold on but Mills pushes him away.
Mills raining down hammerfists from mount.
Mills with a couple of short strikes.
Mills postures up and connects with a big shot that has rocked Kan badly. He's trying desperately to grab hold of Mills around the waist but Mills pushes him off and unloads with more strikes, forcing the referee to jump in and save him! Mills is the winner by TKO! Mills jumps onto the cage and shouts into the camera. "We did it momma!"

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Demarques Mills!
A relieved looking Demarques Mills thanked the fans for their support and gave the usual line about them being amazing. They seemed to believe that he actually meant it.