PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Lloyd Christmas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Gegard Mousasi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Christmas might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Mocking Bird. Mousasi has chosen ZERO ONNNNNEEEEEEEEE as his entrance music. On his way into the cage it seems that Lloyd Christmas has been attacked by a crazed fan! It looks like it might have been the just bleed guy! Luckily Lloyd Christmas seems to be OK! I thought that lunatic was in prison!?

Christmas
vs
Mousasi

178 cm
21
189 lbs
11 - 3 - 0

185 cm
25
202 lbs
9 - 2 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Decent boxing
Powerful

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 11 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Lloyd Christmas!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Gegard Mousasi!
The judges for this bout are Gwen Towbar, Daniel Franklin and George Francis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mousasi throws a right hand that Christmas ducks under and follows up with a left that Christmas also avoids with ease.
Mousasi lands with a straight right. Christmas didn't see that one coming.
Mousasi misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Christmas scores with a jab. Mousasi acknowledges it with a nod of the head.
Christmas thows a left - swing and a miss!
Christmas is the aggressor but that punch slipped nicely by Mousasi.
Mousasi lands a pitter patter jab to the forehead of his opponent.
Mousasi throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Christmas slips a straight right by Mousasi.
Christmas scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Christmas paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Mousasi stuns Christmas with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Christmas throws a combination that misses
and Mousasi counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Nice shot lands for Christmas.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Mousasi fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Mousasi thows a body shot but no joy.
No joy there for Mousasi, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Mousasi moves out of range of the strikes.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mousasi fails with the takedown.
A swing and a miss from Christmas.
The fighters circling - Christmas throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Mousasi slips a straight right by Christmas.
Lloyd Christmas seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Mousasi ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Christmas moves away.
Christmas is on the wrong end of a nice combination from Mousasi.
Christmas steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Mousasi.
Christmas fails with a takedown attempt.
Mousasi throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Mousasi takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Nice defenses there by Christmas.
Mousasi blocks a head kick by Christmas.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Christmas thuds a left hand into Mousasi's body.
Christmas scores with a nice strike.
Christmas throws a big shot that misses.
Mousasi uses good footwork to avoid the strikes from Christmas.
Christmas misses with a jab, cross combination.
Mousasi fails to land the takedown.
Christmas throws a hook to the side of Mousasi's head but Mousasi sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Christmas keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Mousasi has a takedown stuffed.
Lloyd Christmas has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Gegard Mousasi.
Mousasi ducks under a wild hook from Christmas.
Mousasi scores with a body shot.
Mousasi misses with an uppercut.
Mousasi misses the shot to the body.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Christmas misses with a looping right.
Mousasi throws a right and a left that Christmas avoids nicely.
Christmas uses good footwork to get in and out and land a nice right hand before Mousasi has time to react.
Mousasi misses with a body shot
and Christmas counters with a series of strikes. Mousasi will be more careful next time no doubt.

Mousasi is rocked!

Mousasi feints and then dives in with a takedown. That was a long way out but the feint bought him enough time to close the distance and complete the takedown. Now we'll play guard for a bit and see who can get the better of that position.
Mousasi is still in real trouble! Can Christmas finish him?
Mousasi looks gassed!

Mousasi drops back looking for a leg! Christmas is in trouble here! The fighters roll with the hold and Christmas manages to kick Mousasi off! Mousasi jumps back into Christmas's guard.
Christmas on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Christmas tries to get out of the position.

Christmas pushes Mousasi off and gets back to his feet.
Christmas drops Mousasi with a big left hand! Mousasi is injured, injured bad! Christmas jumps in and finished him with strikes! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:45 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Lloyd Christmas!