PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Justin Merchant (ranked 4628 p4p, 3610 weight class) and Ron Schultz (ranked 543 p4p, 477 weight class). Schultz comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Enter Shikari - Sorry You're Not A Winner kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Ron Schultz has the power to score a knockout today if he connects clean with Justin Merchant's chin.

Merchant
vs
Schultz

200 cm
25
220
0 - 0 - 0

195 cm
26
210
1 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Good kicks
Intelligent

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

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 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Justin Merchant!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Ron Schultz!
The judges for this bout are Sandra Marshall, Daniel Franklin and Santiago Holmes.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Good work by Schultz as he checks the leg kick.
The fighters circle momentarily. Schultz darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
Schultz fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
A counter left hand to the body from Merchant misses its target.
A big left from Schultz misses.
Schultz swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Schultz jabs Merchant to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Merchant swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Schultz swings away with a counter right hand but no contact made.
Merchant scores with a three punch combo!
Schultz looks more muscular than last time we saw him. He must have been on the weights.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Schultz misses the jab.
Merchant takes a swing at Schultz's ribcage but misses.
Schultz connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Merchant displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Schultz throws out the jab.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Schultz showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Merchant.
Merchant swings for the body but Schultz moves out of range.
Schultz doesn't fully commit to the body shot counter.
Schultz throws a monster overhand right that drops Merchant! Schultz follows up with more strikes from mount and the fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:22 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ron Schultz!
Ron Schultz decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.