PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Francis Castiglione (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Brad Cunningham (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Castiglione's entrance music is War Zone - Rob Zombie. A fine choice. Cunningham is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by Disturbed - Conflict . Francis Castiglione had real problems making weight for this fight. After initially coming in at 186.4lbs, he had two hours to make the official fight weight. He made it but it will have taken a lot out of him to cut those extra few pounds. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Castiglione
vs
Cunningham

185 cm
24
200 lbs
4 - 4 - 0

187 cm
20
193 lbs
1 - 3 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Very strong

BJJ Purple Belt
Excellent MT
Determined

Deadly Clothing

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 4 - 4 - 0, fighting out of New York, Francis Castiglione!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 3 - 0, fighting out of New York, Brad Cunningham!
The judges for this bout are Alyssa Summers, Joseph Jones and Reed Andrews.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Castiglione misses with a double jab.
Cunningham lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Cunningham slips a jab and a cross from Castiglione.
Cunningham tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Cunningham swings for the body but Castiglione moves out of range.
Castiglione throws a right and a left that Cunningham avoids nicely.
Cunningham moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Cunningham throws a head kick that misses.
Castiglione throws a wild combination but nothing lands.

Cunningham moves into the clinch.
Castiglione tries to score a body lock takedown but Cunningham shows good agility there to stay on his feet.
Knees to the body from Cunningham.
Cunningham with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Castiglione tries for a takedown. No joy.
Cunningham putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Castiglione in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Cunningham lands a nice knee to the body.
Castiglione is breathing heavily.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Cunningham lands an elbow that stopped Castiglione in his tracks for a moment.
Cunningham working Castiglione over with knees to the body.
Nice body punch from Cunningham.
Castiglione takes an elbow to the temple.
Cunningham landing knees to the head.

Castiglione is rocked!
Cunningham landing knees to the body.
Oh Castiglione is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Cunningham with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Cunningham scores a nice knee to the body.
Cunningham lands an elbow just above Castiglione 's eye.
Cunningham lands a big knee to the head and Castiglione goes down! Cunningham pounces and finishes the fight with strikes! He jumps to his feet and celebrates with the crowd!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:03 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Brad Cunningham!