PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Harry Poppins (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and James Googly (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Poppins
vs
Googly

193 cm
21
218 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

176 cm
18
215 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Cuts easily

BJJ White Belt
Brawler
Granite chin

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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Harry Poppins!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, James Googly!
The judges for this bout are Chris Downing, Cecil Peabody and George Francis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Googly misses with a series of wild punches.
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Poppins has a takedown stuffed.
Poppins rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Googly moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Googly keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.
Googly throws a nice looking combination but Poppins bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.

Poppins drives through with a takedown into guard.
Googly keeping full guard, as Poppins tries to pass.
Googly tries to strike from the bottom.
Poppins wants to control from the top but Googly keeps moving.
Googly looking to hit a scissor sweep but Poppins is one step ahead there.
Googly controls Poppins momentarily but Poppins frees himself.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Poppins trying to move into half guard but instead Googly has managed to sweep!
Poppins trying to keep a closed guard but Googly is proving a slippery customer.

The referee has ruled that neither fighter is active enough on the ground and has stood them back up.
Poppins closes the distance and clinches up with Googly, looking for a takedown. Poppins pushes Googly against the cage but Googly circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Harry Poppins. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Poppins drives through and clinches with Googly against the cage.
Googly tries to land a shot to the body but it's blocked.
Poppins lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Googly lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Googly is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
Poppins tries to jump guard but he falls flat on his backside. Googly smiles and moves away.
Poppins will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
Poppins shoots in for a takedown but doesn't get it.
Googly should think about turning a few of those tyres round his middle into muscle if he wants people to take him seriously as an athlete.
Poppins is breathing heavily.
Googly is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
No joy there for Googly, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Googly tries to bum rush Poppins with a series of wild strikes but Poppins uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Googly lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.

It looks like Harry Poppins has been cut.
No joy there for Googly, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Googly just misses with a punch to the body.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Googly shoots in for a takedown but Poppins shows good takedown defense.

Poppins closes the distance and clinches.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Googly scores with a nice hook to the head.
Poppins wants a takedown.
Poppins blocking some punches.
Googly lands a hook to the side of the head.
Googly missing with knees to the body.
Googly working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Poppins tries for a takedown but Googly manages to get underhooks.

Googly turns his back and goes for a hip toss. It's a bit messy but it gets the job done and Googly manages to end up in side control.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Poppins is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Poppins manages to land a sweep and he's now on top! Lovely Jiu Jitsu!
Poppins working Googly over with strikes.
Googly avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Poppins.

Poppins is looking for a kimura here.
The fighters are going at a pretty good pace and they're both starting to sweat now.
Googly blocking the ground and pound attempt from Poppins.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Poppins passes the half guard and he's now in mount! Big trouble for Googly!
A nice elbow there by Poppins.
A nice elbow there by Poppins.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

Poppins swings around for an armbar and he's got it! Wow, that came out of nowhere! What a finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:52 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Harry Poppins!