PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Toothless Yarborough (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Johnny Welsh (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Yarborough comes to the cage accompanied by :(. Both fighters look fresh as a daisy as they make their way towards the cage.

Yarborough
vs
Welsh

166 cm
27
284 lbs
12 - 4 - 0

199 cm
25
265 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

Good wrestling
Decent elbows
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Prefers standup

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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 12 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Toothless Yarborough!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Johnny Welsh!
The judges for this bout are Alan Glass, Gwen Towbar and Stewart Dunkirk.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Yarborough has closed the distance and engaged Welsh in a clinch.
Welsh avoids the elbow strike from Yarborough, against the cage.
Yarborough pushes off an throws an elbow but Welsh leans to the side and avoids it. We're back to clinching against the cage.
The fighters are pressed against the cage, as the pace of the fight slows.
Yarborough throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Yarborough throws an elbow but it's blocked.

Welsh breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Welsh fails to land with a series of punches.
Yarborough tries to close the distance and clinch up against the cage but Welsh paws at him with a jab and circles away.
Yarborough tries to close the distance and clinch but Welsh swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Welsh lands a jab.

Welsh tries to keep at a distance but Yarborough has taken the fight into the clinch.
Yarborough throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Yarborough looks to throw an elbow but misses.
Yarborough prevents Welsh from breaking the clinch.

Welsh breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Yarborough avoids a punch combination nicely.
Welsh will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Welsh lands with a two punch combination before moving back out of range.

It looks like Toothless Yarborough has been cut.
Welsh fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Yarborough tries to close the distance and clinch but Welsh swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Welsh jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
Some wild striking there from Welsh.
Welsh works his jab well there, keeping his opponent at a distance.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Welsh misses with a wild combination.

Yarborough rushes Welsh and presses him up against the cage.
Yarborough throws an elbow that misses.
Welsh wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Yarborough has him pressed against the cage.
Yarborough leaning against his opponent.
Welsh can't break the clinch.
Welsh blocks the elbow strike.
Yarborough trying to land knees to the body.
With the fighters up against the cage, Yarborough throws an elbow but misses.
Welsh blocks an elbow strike from Yarborough.
Welsh can't break the clinch.
The pace slowing considerably in the clinch, as Yarborough takes a break from that fighting nonsense to think about the finer things in life.
Welsh blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Yarborough.
Welsh looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Yarborough lands a nice elbow.

It looks like Johnny Welsh has been cut.
Welsh blocks an elbow strike from Yarborough.
Yarborough tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Welsh avoids it.
Yarborough throws an elbow that misses.
Welsh is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Yarborough just misses with a elbow thrown towards Welsh's brow.
Welsh blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Yarborough prevents Welsh from breaking the clinch.
Yarborough missing with knees to the body.
Welsh is trying to break the clinch but Yarborough is controlling him.
Welsh blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Welsh avoiding damage as Yarborough throws knees to the body.
Yarborough tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Welsh avoids it.
Yarborough missing with knees to the body.
Yarborough is breathing heavily.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Yarborough throws an elbow but it's blocked.
Welsh tries to break the clinch but Yarborough is controlling the position.
Welsh swings wildly with an uppercut but Yarborough uses good head movement to avoid it.
Welsh is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Yarborough throws an elbow but it misses.
Yarborough missing with knees to the body.
Welsh avoiding damage as Yarborough throws knees to the body.
Welsh wants to break free but Yarborough has control.
Welsh working hard to break the clinch.

Welsh breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Welsh dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Yarborough. That did some damage!
Yarborough walks straight into a jab right on the nose. That one stung - he's blinking and trying to clear his head.
Welsh throws a right and a left that Yarborough avoids nicely.
The fight stays on the outside here - Yarborough looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Welsh avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Yarborough fails with an attempt to clinch.
Welsh lands a lovely overhand right.
Welsh circles away from the clinch attempt.
Welsh throws a combination. Yarborough tries to block but a couple of punches get through.
Welsh scores with a jab. Yarborough acknowledges it with a nod of the head.

Toothless Yarborough's cut is getting worse.
Welsh scores with a nice looking left hook and follows it up with an uppercut!
Yarborough takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
Welsh lands with a hook. Yarborough tried to avoid it but it clipped the top of his head.

Toothless Yarborough's cut is bleeding quite badly. He's got to try and protect it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Welsh swats away the attempt to clinch by Yarborough.

Welsh feints and then winds up with a huge right hand that connects perfectly and sends Yarborough sprawling to the canvas! Yarborough rolls over backwards and springs off the cage and manages to regain his footing - how acrobatic! Oh, he's still wobbly - can Welsh finish him?!

Yarborough is rocked!
Welsh moves in close and cracks Yarborough with a massive right hand! Yarborough, frozen momentarily in time, tumbles to the canvas, already out cold! A brutal knockout by Welsh!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:14 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Johnny Welsh!