PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Steve Rice (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jason Krutcher (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Rice comes to the cage accompanied by AC/DC - Thunderstruck. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Rice
vs
Krutcher

175 cm
23
185 lbs
3 - 2 - 0

181 cm
19
191 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Experienced

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Determined

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 3 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Steve Rice!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jason Krutcher!
The judges for this bout are Dillan Fox, Elvis Blanc and Steve Smith.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Krutcher pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Rice has a takedown stuffed.
Rice dodges the punch combination from Krutcher.
Jason Krutcher seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Krutcher lands with an uppercut that bounces Rice off the cage and back into rage.

Krutcher pushes Rice up against the cage in a clinch.
Krutcher lands a body shot in the clinch.
Krutcher prevents the takedown attempt.
Krutcher is pressed up against the cage. Rice has hold of a leg and is looking to drag Krutcher down to the mat. Krutcher avoids the attempt though and has circled away. We're back to striking at a distance.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Steve Rice. That's going to take a lot out of him.

Krutcher has taken the fight to the clinch.
Rice goes for a takedown in the clinch but Krutcher prevents it.
Krutcher lands with a right to the head.
Krutcher lands a damaging elbow.
Krutcher creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Rice's defenses.
Krutcher stalling here - the referee won't stand for too much of that.
Rice blocks the elbow strike.

Rice gets a trip takedown into half guard.
We could do with one of the fighters taking the initiative a bit more on the ground - they're both waiting to capitalize on a mistake.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Krutcher moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.
Krutcher lands a beautiful switch and he's in full mount! That could spell trouble for Rice!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Krutcher controlling the pace for now.
Rice wants to get back to his feet.
Krutcher can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Rice is looking to escape.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Krutcher looking to control and managing it successfully.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
A few boos can be heard. I'm sure they will multiply if the fighters don't pick up the pace.
Krutcher can't quite control the action as he would like just now, as Rice is looking to escape.
Krutcher looking to control and managing it successfully.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Rice wants to try and get back to his feet.
Krutcher controlling from the full mount.
Krutcher wants to control but instead Rice manages to regain half guard.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.

Despite being in the dominant position, Jason Krutcher just isn't active enough and the referee decides to stand the fighters back up.
Krutcher tries to close the distance and clinch but Rice swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Nice takedown defense from Krutcher. No joy for Rice on that attempt.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Krutcher - that will leave a mark!
A solid body kick from Krutcher.
Rice fails with a takedown attempt.
Jason Krutcher is looking to keep the fight on the feet at all costs.
Rice is breathing heavily.
Rice misses with a series of wild punches.
Rice misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
Krutcher turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
A solid body kick from Krutcher.
Krutcher fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
The crowd applaud the fighters efforts here as the round comes to an end.
Krutcher lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.

Krutcher pushes Rice up against the cage in a clinch.
Rice's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Krutcher's corner are urging him to control the action in the clinch for a moment, rather than mount any serious offense. I'm sure the crowd appreciate those instructions... not.
Krutcher lands with a short shot to the head.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jason Krutcher 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.

Krutcher throws a body kick that digs right into the meat.
Both fighters circling a little - Krutcher finishes the exchange with a kick to the body.
Krutcher tries to clinch up.
Rice steps to his left, right into the path of a big body kick from Krutcher. That one must have hurt.
Krutcher lands a high kick!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Krutcher tests Rice's chin there with a solid looking shot.

Rice is rocked!
A kick lands to the mid section there for Krutcher.
Oh Rice is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Krutcher throws a quick inside leg kick.
Rice seems to have got his legs back now.
Krutcher wants to clinch up but Rice keeps it at a distance.
Krutcher wants to clinch.
Krutcher lands with a nice body kick.
Krutcher fakes the leg kick and cracks Rice in the body.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Rice takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Rice moves his head to the side to avoid a jab but walks straight into a cross.
Steve Rice is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Krutcher lands with a nice combination. Rice backs away looking to recover.
Rice will be looking to protect his midsection after taking some solid kicks to the body.
Nice body kick there by Krutcher.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Rice keeps the fight on the outside.
Ohhhhhhhhhh, brutal head kick from Krutcher! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:12 of round 2, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Jason Krutcher!