PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Craig Thomas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Morten Norgaard (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Thomas's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Judas Priest - Painkiller. Norgaard is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Hestevisen. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Thomas
vs
Norgaard

183 cm
23
195 lbs
5 - 1 - 0

185 cm
24
187 lbs
5 - 2 - 1

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid Muay Thai
Powerful

Purity Fight Nutrition

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 5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Craig Thomas!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 2 - 1, fighting out of Las Vegas, Morten Norgaard!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, George Francis and Robert Twigg.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Thomas swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.
A cross from Thomas lands.
Norgaard throws a sloppy head kick and Thomas moves out of range easily.
Norgaard throws a nice outside leg kick.
Thomas misses with a looping right.
Norgaard misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.

Norgaard pushes Thomas up against the cage in a clinch.
Norgaard unloads a knee to the mid-section. Thomas lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Thomas is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Thomas has had enough of the clinch but Norgaard keeps him there for the moment.
Thomas wants to break free but Norgaard has control.
Thomas on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Thomas takes an elbow to the forehead.
Norgaard pushes off an throws an elbow but Thomas leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
Norgaard is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Thomas is defending well for now.
Norgaard throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Thomas blocks it with crossed arms.
Norgaard creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Thomas's defenses.

It looks like Craig Thomas has been cut.
Norgaard throws a knee to the head but misses.
Norgaard with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Thomas managing to block the knees to the body from Norgaard.
Thomas lands a body shot.
Thomas is trying to break the clinch but Norgaard has him pressed against the cage.
Norgaard unloads a knee to the mid-section. Thomas lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Thomas on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Norgaard lands a good knee to the midsection. Thomas won't want to take too many of those.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Norgaard utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Thomas is breathing heavily.
Thomas takes a knee to the side of the body.
Norgaard using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Thomas has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Norgaard tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Norgaard lands a knee to the body.
Norgaard with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Norgaard lands a nice knee to the body.
Norgaard connects with a nasty looking knee right to Thomas's face.
Norgaard lands an elbow that stopped Thomas in his tracks for a moment.
Norgaard lands an elbow just above Thomas 's eye.
Norgaard misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Thomas.
Norgaard lands an elbow inside that Thomas shrugs off.
Norgaard lands a knee to the head.
Norgaard tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Thomas avoids it.
Thomas on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Thomas wants to get back to striking at distance but Norgaard won't allow it.
Norgaard gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Norgaard misses with a knee to the head.
With the fighters up against the cage, Norgaard throws an elbow but misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Norgaard misses with a knee to the head.
Thomas takes an elbow to the temple.
Thomas avoids a wild elbow strike from Norgaard.
Thomas blocks an elbow strike from Norgaard.
Thomas wants to break the clinch but can't.
Norgaard throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Thomas blocks it with crossed arms.
Thomas is trying to stall.
Thomas avoiding damage as Norgaard throws knees to the body.
Thomas blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Thomas looking to slow down the pace here.
Norgaard lands an elbow inside.
With the fighters up against the cage, Norgaard throws an elbow but misses.
Norgaard throws a knee to the head but misses.
Norgaard pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Thomas wants to get back to striking at distance but Norgaard won't allow it.
Norgaard lands a nice elbow.
Norgaard missing with knees to the body.
Thomas wants to get back to striking at distance but Norgaard won't allow it.
Norgaard lands an elbow inside.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Norgaard tries to land a knee to the head but Thomas blocks with his arms.
Still in the clinch, Thomas scores with a nice short uppercut.
Norgaard prevents Thomas from breaking the clinch.
Thomas managing to block the knees to the body from Norgaard.
Thomas dodges an elbow strike from Norgaard.
Norgaard keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Thomas's efforts to push away.
Norgaard misses the knee to the body. Nice hip positioning from Thomas.
Nice elbow from Norgaard.
Thomas avoiding damage as Norgaard throws knees to the body.
Norgaard tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Thomas avoids it.
Norgaard connects with a nasty looking knee right to Thomas's face.
Thomas tries to break the clinch but Norgaard is controlling the position.
Norgaard with an attempt at a knee that misses.

Thomas breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Norgaard takes a punch to the jaw and another one to the bread basket.
Thomas works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.
Donk. Thomas catches Norgaard right on the button with a cross.
Thomas scores with a one two! Norgaard had his feet all tangled up there and couldn't avoid the strikes.
Norgaard takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Norgaard misses with a looping right.
Thomas scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
Thomas lands three nice shots there - that looked like it hurt!

Norgaard is rocked!
Thomas checks the leg kick.
Norgaard is still on wobbly legs! Can Thomas finish him?
Thomas drops Norgaard with a straight left! Oh this is bad for Norgaard! Thomas dives in and starts dropping bombs - the referee has no choice but to step in and save him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:23 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Craig Thomas!