PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Diablo Sanchez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mike Johnss (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Mike Johnss will no doubt be trying to keep this one on the feet, where he has a distinct advantage.

Sanchez
vs
Johnss

180 cm
22
145 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

175 cm
22
145 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Brawler
Big heart

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Intelligent

Infliction Fight Gear

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the featherweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Diablo Sanchez!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Mike Johnss!
The judges for this bout are Winston Howard, Bruno Hogan and John Mangel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Sanchez shoots in with a takedown attempt and he has Johnss pinned against the cage. Johnss gets the underhooks and manages to circle away.
Sanchez throws the left hand but Johnss avoids the punch easily.
Johnss doesn't manage to clinch there - Sanchez circles away.
Johnss fails with an attempt to clinch.
Sanchez fails to land the takedown.
A jab from Johnss does it's job there.
The fight stays on the outside here - Johnss looks like he's thinking about clinching though.

Sanchez bobs and weaves into range and then changes levels and scores with a nice takedown into side control.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Sanchez scores with punches from side control.
Sanchez lands some shots froms side control.

Johnss is rocked!
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Sanchez connects with a decent looking elbow from side control that caused Johnss some visible discomfort.
Johnss is still in real trouble! Can Sanchez finish him?
Sanchez works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Sanchez in side control lands a decent elbow.
Johnss is looking to regain half guard here but Sanchez keeps moving and retains side control.
Sanchez lands a nice forearm strike.
Sanchez lands a few punches from side control.
Johnss is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Sanchez cracks Johnss with an elbow. That is naaassty.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sanchez working the ground and pound.
Sanchez is breathing heavily.
Sanchez scoring with punches and elbows.
Sanchez landing with strikes to the head and body from side control.
Sanchez working the ground and pound from side control.
Check out the look on Sanchez's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Johnss really doesn't want to stay on the ground with Sanchez. If he can't get it back to his feet, it's only a matter of time before he'll be tapping out.
Sanchez in side control lands a decent elbow.
Sanchez really does look like a pencil wearing a pair of gloves. Let's hope he has a gameplan to suit that ridiculous body shape.
Johnss is positioning himself to get back to half guard.
Johnss takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Sanchez lands a few punches from side control.
Johnss tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Sanchez scores with punches from side control.
Sanchez lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Johnss down.
Sanchez scores with punches from side control.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Sanchez is chipping away with strikes.
Sanchez lands a few punches from side control.
Sanchez lands some shots froms side control.
Sanchez scoring with punches and elbows.
Sanchez advances to full mount.
Sanchez working away from the top, dropping strikes.
Sanchez has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sanchez lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Johnss hang on?
Sanchez pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
The referee warns Johnss that he has to improve his position here as he takes two more clean shots to the head.
Sanchez lands a big elbow.
Sanchez fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Sanchez with good strikes from the mount here!
Sanchez is landing with some decent strikes but Johnss is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Sanchez lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Sanchez landing punches.
A nice elbow there by Sanchez.
Johnss takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
A nice elbow there by Sanchez.
Sanchez scoring with strikes but Johnss is staying in there.
Sanchez dominating with strikes here.
Johnss is working to get back to half guard.
Johnss is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Sanchez lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Johnss hang on?
Johnss is desperately trying to improve his position but Sanchez has a good base and remains in mount.
Sanchez looking to finish Johnss with some ground and pound. This is bad for Johnss!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Johnss swinging wildly from the bottom but he's not landing.
Sanchez in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.
Sanchez unloads with some vicious shots from mount and Johnss wants out - he looks towards the referee who steps in to save him! Sanchez celebrates on the cage and the crowd goes wild!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:26 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Diablo Sanchez!