PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jason Herbert (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Randy Lesnar (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Lesnar comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Pink Floyd: Welcome to the Machine kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Herbert
vs
Lesnar

187 cm
22
271 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

190 cm
22
256 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

Decent wrestler
Counter striker
Intelligent

Good wrestler
Brawler
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Jason Herbert!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Randy Lesnar!
The judges for this bout are Skip Squint, Winston Howard and Hugh Johnson.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Lesnar 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.
Herbert looking to hit a scissor sweep but Lesnar is one step ahead there.
Lesnar must be cautious of submissions here, given that his opponent has the superior Jiu Jitsu.

Herbert looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Herbert looking to hit a scissor sweep but Lesnar is one step ahead there.
Herbert is working hard here to advance position.

Herbert has a loose triangle. He'll be looking to tighten that up but Lesnar can see exactly what he's planning and manages to posture up and free himself.
Lesnar preventing the sweep.
Herbert could do with loosing a few pounds - he looks very soft around the mid section, to put it politely.
Lesnar is sitting in guard, working some ground and pound.
Herbert on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Herbert tries to get out of the position.
Lesnar lands a nice shot whilst sitting in his opponent's guard.

Herbert is rocked!
Lesnar distracts Herbert with his right hand and drops a big elbow with his other arm.
Oh Herbert is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Lesnar makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Herbert wants to improve his position but instead Lesnar has moved into half guard.
Herbert wants to improve his position but Lesnar is controlling well.
Lesnar working the head and body with strikes.
Lesnar lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Lesnar lands with a punch from half guard.
Lesnar winds up and cracks Herbert with a swinging punch to the side of the head.

Lesnar seems to be looking for submissions.
Herbert is trying to get back to full guard.
Herbert is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Lesnar scores with a couple of nice shots.
Herbert tries to regain full guard. Instead though, Lesnar has advanced to mount. Uh oh.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Lesnar dominating with strikes here.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Lesnar cracks Herbert with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Herbert is looking to get to half guard.
Lesnar controlling from mount.
The referee warns Herbert that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Lesnar working the ground and pound effectively.
Lesnar landing punches.
Lesnar loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Herbert scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Lesnar land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Lesnar stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:48 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Randy Lesnar!