PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jackson Howe (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tunying Jedi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Howe kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Teach Me How to Dougie. Jedi has chosen Binilanggo as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Well, the cameraman is lingering on a pretty young lady for a bit too long there. Keep your eyes on the fighters buddy or you'll miss the fighter intros!

Howe
vs
Jedi

204 cm
22
250 lbs
5 - 0 - 0

190 cm
23
265 lbs
5 - 1 - 0

Good wrestling
Lethal high kicks
KO power

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Heavy handed

Firebird Designs
Firebird Designs

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 5 - 0 - 0, fighting out of New York, Jackson Howe!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 5 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Tunying Jedi!
The judges for this bout are Alec Ball, Trevor Gratis and Dillan Fox.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jedi just misses with a punch to the body.
Howe moves out of range of the strikes.
Howe fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Jedi.

Howe darts in and lands a nice takedown into half guard.
Howe looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Howe is controlling the pace.
Howe takes advantage of the dominant position to land a couple of big hammer fists.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Howe trying to mount his opponent but Jedi defends it.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Howe thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Jedi's head.
Howe performing his best blanket impression for a moment.
Jedi has hold of Howe's hands but Howe slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Howe thows a huge punch but Jedi dodges it nicely.
Howe thows a huge punch but Jedi dodges it nicely.
Howe scoring with strikes to the body and head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Jedi avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Howe.
Jedi really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Howe. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Howe prevents Jedi from standing back up.
Howe is trying to control the action in half guard but Jedi is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
We get told so often about how wrestlers don't like to be on their backs. Let's see if Jedi can do anything to dispel that myth.
Howe looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Jedi with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Howe is looking to pass the guard... He's managed it - he's now in full mount!
Howe with good strikes from the mount here!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Howe working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Jedi in a bad spot here, taking shots to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Howe putting on the heat here with some good ground and pound!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Howe dominating with strikes here.
Howe lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Jedi hang on?
Howe is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Jedi can't stay in a position like this for much longer.
Howe will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.
Jedi looks gassed!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Howe pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Jedi is in a horrible position here. Howe smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Howe trying to control but Jedi is having none of it.
Howe scoring with strikes but Jedi is staying in there.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Howe cracks Jedi with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
Howe fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Howe with the ground and pound from mount.
Howe breaks from Jedi's wrist control and lands an elbow.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Howe breaks from Jedi's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Whack. That's a big, big shot from Howe! Jedi is out cold! This one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:57 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Jackson Howe!
Jackson Howe retains his heavyweight title!