PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a super heavyweight MMA rules bout between Martin Drop (ranked 48 p4p, 809 weight class) and Alexandria OcasioCortez (ranked 5 p4p, 48 weight class). There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Drop
vs
OcasioCortez

199 cm
30
278
20 - 13 - 0

206 cm
32
280
21 - 15 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Very quick

Decent wrestler
Dangerous knees
Powerful

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the super heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 20 - 13 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Martin Drop!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 21 - 15 - 0, fighting out of Amsterdam, Alexandria OcasioCortez!
The judges for this bout are Aafke Stam, Paul Aken and Radbod Blank.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
OcasioCortez fails in his attempt to clinch.
OcasioCortez misses with a looping right.
OcasioCortez moves out of range of the strikes.

OcasioCortez has managed to clinch.
OcasioCortez lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Drop pressing his opponent against the cage.
OcasioCortez avoiding damage as Drop throws knees to the body.
Drop misses with a knee to the head.
OcasioCortez misses with a punch to the body.
OcasioCortez looking to stall.
Drop swings away with an uppercut that misses.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
A short right from OcasioCortez on the inside.
Drop landing knees to the head.
OcasioCortez creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Drop's defenses.

It looks like Martin Drop has been cut.
Drop scores with a shot to the side of OcasioCortez's head.
OcasioCortez looking to throw knees to the head but Drop is blocking nicely.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
OcasioCortez lands an elbow just above Drop 's eye.
With the fighters up against the cage, OcasioCortez throws an elbow but misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
OcasioCortez doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Drop lands with a short shot to the head.
Drop prevents a body shot from OcasioCortez.
Drop tried to land a shot to the body but connects with OcasioCortez's elbow.
OcasioCortez told us before the fight that he's been working on his elbows. An under utilised technique these days - let's see if it can sway the outcome of the fight.
A shot in the inside from Drop.
Drop trying to land knees to the body.
OcasioCortez comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
I was talking to Drop's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
OcasioCortez missing with knees to the body.
Drop throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but OcasioCortez blocks it with crossed arms.
OcasioCortez pushes off an throws an elbow but Drop leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
OcasioCortez lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.
OcasioCortez on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Drop is stalling here.
Drop dictating the pace here, as the fighters clinch against the cage.
Drop misses with a knee to the head.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as OcasioCortez takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
OcasioCortez trying to land knees to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Drop managing to block the knees to the body from OcasioCortez.
Come on Drop - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
A short left from Drop.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
OcasioCortez throws an elbow but it's blocked.
OcasioCortez tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Drop avoids it.
OcasioCortez misses with a knee strike.
OcasioCortez trying to control the position but instead, Drop has worked for underhooks and has pushed OcasioCortez into the cage.
OcasioCortez misses with a knee strike.
Drop avoids a wild elbow strike from OcasioCortez.
Come on Drop - let's have some action - none of this stalling nonsense.
Drop scores with a nice hook to the head.
Drop dodges an elbow strike from OcasioCortez.
Drop looking to throw knees to the head but OcasioCortez is blocking nicely.
Drop is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
OcasioCortez lands an elbow that stopped Drop in his tracks for a moment.
Drop tries a body shot but OcasioCortez blocks it.
Drop works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Drop has OcasioCortez pressed against the cage.
Drop unloads a knee to the mid-section. OcasioCortez lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
OcasioCortez looks winded!
Drop has OcasioCortez pressed against the cage.
Drop blocks an elbow strike from OcasioCortez.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, OcasioCortez just misses with a elbow thrown towards Drop's brow.
Drop displaying some good clinch control by pressing OcasioCortez up against the cage.
Drop unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Drop effectively controlling the action here.
OcasioCortez gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Drop is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Drop slows down the pace here.
Drop gets through OcasioCortez's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Drop lands a body punch in the clinch.
Drop lands a good knee to the midsection. OcasioCortez won't want to take too many of those.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Drop lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
OcasioCortez takes a knee right on the jaw!
Drop tries a knee to the head but OcasioCortez blocks it.
OcasioCortez lands an elbow that stopped Drop in his tracks for a moment.
Drop softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Drop using the Thai plumb to throw knees but OcasioCortez has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Drop misses with a knee to the head.
OcasioCortez misses with an elbow strike.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Drop scores with an uppercut up the middle.
OcasioCortez throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Drop makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
And that is the end of the round. The fighters go back to their corners.

Martin Drop dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Martin Drop's cut.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

OcasioCortez is looking to clinch but Drop is avoiding it.
Drop scores with a jab to the jaw.
Drop lands an overhand right.
OcasioCortez moves in looking to clinch but Drop pushes him off.
The fight stays on the outside here - OcasioCortez looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

OcasioCortez closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Drop stalling in the clinch but OcasioCortez improves position.
Drop lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Martin Drop has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Drop will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning OcasioCortez up against the cage.
OcasioCortez throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
OcasioCortez lands a nice uppercut.
OcasioCortez looks to throw an elbow but misses.
OcasioCortez creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Drop's defenses.
Drop looking to throw knees to the head but OcasioCortez is blocking nicely.
OcasioCortez looking to stall.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Drop tries a knee to the head but OcasioCortez blocks it.
Drop throws a knee to the head but misses.
OcasioCortez is looking to control Drop's arms but Drop gets an underhook and turns him. Now OcasioCortez has his back to the cage.
Drop manages to get underhooks and slows down the pace for a moment.
A short right from OcasioCortez on the inside.
Drop lands a right hand.
OcasioCortez misses with an elbow strike.
Drop lands a right hand.
OcasioCortez throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Drop looking to slow down the pace here.
Nice body punch from Drop.
Drop misses with a knee to the head.
OcasioCortez misses with an elbow over the top.
Drop using the Thai plumb to throw knees but OcasioCortez has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Drop missing with knees to the body.
Drop with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Drop misses with a knee to the head.
Drop with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Drop holding his opponent close, against the cage.
Drop lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
OcasioCortez tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Drop's elbow.
Drop tries a knee to the head but OcasioCortez blocks it.
A right handed body shot lands from Drop.
Drop lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
OcasioCortez is breathing heavily.
OcasioCortez unloads a knee to the mid-section. Drop lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Drop is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that OcasioCortez can do to turn this around?
Drop avoids a wild elbow strike from OcasioCortez.
Drop lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of OcasioCortez backwards.
OcasioCortez throws an elbow but it misses.
Drop letting OcasioCortez take a breather here.
Drop lands a knee to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Drop lands a left hand.
Drop displaying some good clinch control by pressing OcasioCortez up against the cage.
Drop blocks a body shot from OcasioCortez.
Drop lands a knee to the head.
Drop avoids a wild elbow strike from OcasioCortez.
A short uppercut from Drop.
Nice elbow from OcasioCortez.
Drop misses with a knee to the head.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Drop creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
OcasioCortez misses with a knee to the head.
Drop stalling against the cage.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Drop landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
OcasioCortez throws an elbow but it misses.
Drop throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but OcasioCortez blocks it with crossed arms.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Drop softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Drop blocks an uppercut.
Drop throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Drop lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Drop working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Drop using the Thai plumb to throw knees but OcasioCortez has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
A nice left hand lands by Drop.
Drop lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Drop scores with an uppercut up the middle.
Drop softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
Drop lands a huge knee in the clinch and it's knocked OcasioCortez out! Massive knee - he's celebrating with his corner and the crowd showing their appreciation!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:46 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Knee). Martin Drop!
Martin Drop retains his super heavyweight title!