PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Miguel Garces (ranked 4209 p4p, 2059 weight class) and Deanthony Pederson (ranked 465 p4p, 274 weight class). Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the prize buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Garces
vs
Pederson

183 cm
23
192
6 - 5 - 0

182 cm
21
196
4 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Experienced

Excellent grappler
Basic striking
Granite chin

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 6 - 5 - 0, fighting out of New York, Miguel Garces!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Deanthony Pederson!
The judges for this bout are Aleksei Zolotukhin, Fedor Mirinova and Illya Tyunina.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Garces bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
A telegraphed takedown attempt from Garces is defended easily by Pederson.
Garces darts in looking for a takedown but Pederson gets double underhooks and turns Garces into the cage.
Garces jumps guard but Pederson stands there with Garces around his waist. Garces gives up and drops back to his feet. We remain in the clinch.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Miguel Garces. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Pederson turns his back and goes for a hip toss. It's a bit messy but it gets the job done and Pederson manages to end up in side control.
Garces's coaches at Thunder Gym have been working on his defensive grappling in preparation for this fight so let's see if he can get out of this tricky position.
Pederson staying calm.
Garces struggling a bit here.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Pederson working the ground and pound.
Pederson controlling the position.
Garces knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Pederson on the ground.
Pederson works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Garces is not content to let Pederson control the position.
Pederson takes advantage of some sloppy striking from Garces to pass into mount.
Garces can't escape the position.
Pederson cracks Garces with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Pederson trying to control but Garces is having none of it.
Pederson lands an elbow that was bordering on illegal but the referee lets it go with a warning.

Garces is rocked!
Pederson looking to finish here with some ground and pound. He lands one big shot that has Garces covering up... and two more big strikes land, forcing the referee to step in and put and end to proceedings! This fight is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Deanthony Pederson!
Deanthony Pederson decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.