PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a bantamweight MMA rules bout between Raging Douche (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Will Messinger (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Douche
vs
Messinger

150 cm
20
130 lbs
4 - 0 - 0

170 cm
23
133 lbs
4 - 5 - 0

Powerful takedowns
Counter striker
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Solid chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the bantamweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 4 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Raging Douche!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Will Messinger!
The judges for this bout are John Mangel, Summer Carpenter and Eliza Hachem.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Douche defends well against a solid takedown attempt from Messinger.
Messinger tries to clinch but Douche is having none of it.
Messinger tries to close the distance and clinch but Douche swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Douche misses with a head kick.
Messinger misses with a takedown attempt - Douche sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
A big left from Douche misses.
Douche avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Messinger tries to bum rush Douche with a series of wild strikes but Douche uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Douche slaps away a takedown attempt from Messinger, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Raging Douche has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Will Messinger.
Messinger shoots for a takedown but Douche saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.

Douche drives through with a really nice takedown into side control.
Messinger is looking to reverse the position.
Douche working the head with strikes.
Douche scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Messinger to see if he's OK.
Douche working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Messinger looks gassed!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Messinger taking a bit of punishment here - Douche scoring with strikes.
Douche cracks Messinger with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Douche tries to land with some ground and pound but misses.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Douche landing a few strikes.
Douche throwing ground and pound but whilst doing so, he forgets to control position and Messinger works his way back to half guard. Good composure under pressure.
Douche is looking to pass Messinger's guard but actually Messinger recovers to full guard.
Douche lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Douche throwing strikes from guard but Messinger blocks nicely.
Douche is in close to Messinger's body, working some short punches and elbows.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Douche throws a big right hand that misses.
Douche postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Douche has to be careful here, sitting in the guard of a superior BJJ player.
Douche lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.
Douche is in close to Messinger's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Douche postures up in Messinger's guard and throws a big left but Messinger blocks it.
Douche is in close to Messinger's body, working some short punches and elbows.
Douche works over Messinger with some ground and pound from guard.
A big thud reverberates around the arena there as Douche accidentally thumps the mat. Hopefully he's not broken his hand.
Douche throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
Douche slips effortlessly into side control - very nice.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Douche throws an elbow but Messinger slips to the side and avoids it well.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Douche working the ground and pound from side control.
Douche scoring with punches and elbows.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Douche working the ground and pound from side control.
Douche lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Messinger down.
Douche scores with a couple of nice shots to the head there. The referee takes a look at Messinger to see if he's OK.
Douche lands an elbow.
Douche cracks Messinger with a big elbow.
Messinger taking a bit of punishment here - Douche scoring with strikes.
Douche lands some shots froms side control.

Messinger is rocked!
Douche lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
Douche tries to cartwheel into mount but he doesn't manage it.
Douche working the ground and pound.
Douche in side control lands a decent elbow.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Messinger takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Douche is putting a hurting on Messinger here, landing some big shots from side control.
Douche is putting a hurting on Messinger here, landing some big shots from side control.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Douche scoring with punches and elbows.
Douche cracks Messinger with a big elbow.
Douche cracks Messinger with a big right hand but Messinger just smiles back at him and invites him to have another go.
Messinger is still in real trouble! Can Douche finish him?
Messinger takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
Douche working the head with strikes.

Douche tries for a kimura. Not really close to a finish though.
Messinger seems to have recovered his senses.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Douche landing strikes.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Raging Douche dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Messinger uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Douche.
Douche throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Messinger fails with the takedown

and Douche counters with a shoot takedown into half guard.
Douche lands strikes from half guard.
Douche moves nicely into side control.
Messinger takes a big shot right to the temple there but he's taken it well.
Douche in side control here. He's dropped a big elbow there and Messinger looks hurt! Oh, he is hurt! Douche turns on the heat and pounds him out for a TKO victory! Good killer instinct there!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 0:52 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Raging Douche!