PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jimmy Snuka (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Darth Bader (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Snuka
vs
Bader

192 cm
23
218 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

188 cm
26
215 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
World class MT
Cardio machine

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

BHP's Shaolin Nutrition (Recovery-Stamina-Muscle)
Broken Halo Pride Nutrition

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Jimmy Snuka!
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, Darth Bader!
The judges for this bout are Alan Glass, Robert Twigg and Stewart Dunkirk.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bader swings for the body but Snuka moves out of range.
Snuka uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Bader.
Snuka moves forwards but Bader connects with a nice, crisp jab.
Snuka wants to clinch.
Bader lands a jab, followed by a cross and another cross, as Snuka backs up against the cage.
Bader catches Snuka with a nice straight right. He seems pissed - ooooh, it's on now! On like donkey kong!
Snuka bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Snuka looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Bader lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Snuka circles away quickly and effectively.
Snuka avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Bader misses with a double jab.
Jab by Snuka.
Snuka tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Bader throws a series of punches but Snuka moves out of range.
Snuka listening to his corner there, landing a nice uppercut.
Snuka takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Bader uses good footwork to get in and out, landing a nice hook.
A looping hook to the body misses from Bader. Snuka does a little dance to reset his feet.
Bader swings for the body but Snuka moves out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bader pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
A slow jab from Bader misses its intended target.
Bader takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Bader looks gassed!
Bader throws a series of punches but Snuka avoids them all with ease.

Snuka gets a clinch.
Snuka with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.

It looks like Darth Bader has been cut.
Bader takes an elbow to the forehead.
Snuka lands a damaging elbow.
Bader has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Snuka connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bader's face.
Snuka scores with a knee to the head.
Snuka landing some nice looking knees to the body.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Snuka is struggling to control the position.

Snuka breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Bader misses with a looping left.
Bader sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Snuka scores with a sloppy right hand. Bader should have avoided that one.
Darth Bader seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Bader tries to keep at a distance but Snuka has taken the fight into the clinch.
Snuka creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Bader's defenses.
Snuka gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Bader takes an elbow to the temple.
Bader tries to break free but Snuka pushes him back against the cage.
Snuka connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bader's face.
A frustrated look appears on Bader's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Snuka connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bader's face.
Snuka crunches a lovely knee into Bader's ribcage.
Snuka lands an elbow inside.
Snuka lands an elbow that stopped Bader in his tracks for a moment.
Snuka lands an elbow inside.
Bader tries to circle away but Snuka has him pinned against the cage.
Snuka landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
Bader goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Bader misses with an elbow strike.
Snuka lands a nice elbow.
Snuka connects with a knee to the head.
Snuka gets through Bader's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Snuka lands an elbow inside that Bader shrugs off.
Bader misses with a knee to the head.
A short uppercut from Snuka.
Bader has a couple of punches blocked by Snuka.
Snuka connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bader's face.
Snuka working Bader over with knees to the body.
Snuka lands an elbow that stopped Bader in his tracks for a moment.
A real battle for position is taking place between these two warriors.
Snuka lands an elbow just above Bader 's eye.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Snuka scores a nice knee to the body.
Snuka with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Snuka lands a nice elbow.
Snuka creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Bader's defenses.
Bader misses with a hook from the clinch.
Snuka with a knee to the head.
A hook to the body from Snuka.
Bader throws a head punch that misses.
Snuka unloads a knee to the mid-section. Bader lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Snuka lands a damaging elbow.
Bader takes a knee right on the jaw!
Snuka lands an elbow inside.
Bader looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Bader working hard to break the clinch.
Snuka keeps control of Bader as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Snuka lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Bader wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Snuka has him pressed against the cage.
Bader takes an elbow to the forehead.
Knees in the clinch landing for Snuka.
Bader wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Snuka has him pressed against the cage.
Snuka connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bader's face.
Snuka landing knees to the head.
Snuka lands a good knee to the midsection. Bader won't want to take too many of those.
Snuka lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Snuka unloads a knee to the mid-section. Bader lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Snuka with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Bader is trying to break free.
Bader has a couple of punches blocked by Snuka.
Bader is trying to stall.
Snuka utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Bader is trying to break the clinch but Snuka has him pressed against the cage.
Snuka lands a nice shot to the body.
Bader takes a knee to the side of the body.
Bader wants to get back to striking at distance but Snuka won't allow it.
Snuka scores a nice knee to the body.
Bader takes a knee right on the jaw!
Bader misses with the head strike.
Snuka lands a hook to the side of the head.
Snuka lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Snuka working Bader over with knees to the body.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Bader wants to break the clinch but can't.
Bader can't break the clinch.
Bader wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Snuka landing knees to the head.
Snuka lands an elbow that stopped Bader in his tracks for a moment.
Bader tries to circle away but Snuka has him pinned against the cage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jimmy Snuka dominated that round.
The cut man is working on Darth Bader's cut.
Well, the break between rounds is over. Let's get back to the scrappin!

Snuka lands a high kick!
Bader misses with a looping left.
Darth Bader is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Bader misses the jab.
Bader connects with a nice looking jab.
Bader missing with a left hand there. Snuka was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Snuka lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.

Snuka instigates a clinch.
Bader takes an elbow to the temple.
Bader misses with a hook from the clinch.
Snuka landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Snuka lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Snuka obliges.
Snuka lands an elbow just above Bader 's eye.
Snuka lands an elbow inside.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Bader takes a knee right on the jaw!
Bader takes a knee right on the jaw!
Snuka lands an elbow just above Bader 's eye.
Snuka lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
A right hook to the body lands for Snuka.
Snuka putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Bader in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Snuka landing knees to the body. They look like they could hurt.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Bader is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Bader wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Snuka lands a knee to the head.
Snuka lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Snuka connects with a knee to the head.
Snuka prevents Bader from breaking the clinch.
Bader is trying to break free.
Snuka comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.

Snuka breaks from the clinch.
Bader closes the distance and lands a one-two.
Jimmy Snuka is winning the standup battle so far.
Nice defenses there by Snuka.
Bader throws a series of punches but Snuka avoids them all with ease.
Snuka swings for the body but Bader moves out of range.
Bader throws an uppercut from half a mile away. Snuka sees it coming and avoids it easily.
Bader swats away the attempt to clinch by Snuka.
Bader swings and misses with a shot to the body
and Snuka finishes the little exchange by landing a big kick to the body.
Bader misses with a jab, cross combination.
Nice shot by Snuka.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Thud! ouch! good body kick from Snuka - that will leave a mark!
Bader chopped to the floor by a nice leg kick but he springs right back up before Snuka can pounce on him.

Snuka gets in close and instigates a clinch.
Snuka unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Snuka landing some nice looking knees to the body.
Snuka softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.

Snuka escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Snuka tries to clinch up.
Snuka ducks under a wild hook from Bader.
A combination from Bader does no damage.
Bader rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Snuka moves out of range and avoids them all easily.

Snuka instigates a clinch.
Snuka lands an elbow that stopped Bader in his tracks for a moment.
Bader working aggressively here.
Snuka lands an elbow inside that Bader shrugs off.
Snuka has Bader pressed against the cage, preventing Bader from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Snuka comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Snuka landing knees to the head.
Bader wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Snuka has him pressed against the cage.
Snuka presses Bader against the cage and delivers a mid-strength body shot.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Bader is trying to stall.
Bader is trying to force a seperation but Snuka has the dominant position.
Snuka lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Snuka lands an elbow inside that Bader shrugs off.
Snuka connects with a nasty looking knee right to Bader's face.
Snuka lands a knee to the head.
Bader trying to control the position but instead, Snuka has worked for underhooks and has pushed Bader into the cage.
Bader doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Snuka works for underhooks and lands a body shot in the process.
Snuka putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Bader in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Snuka keeps control of Bader as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Bader is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Bader is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Snuka lands a damaging elbow.
Snuka pressing his opponent against the cage.
Bader wants to get back to striking at distance but Snuka won't allow it.
Snuka gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Snuka unloads a knee to the mid-section.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
There's not a lot going on here and the crowd are letting the fighters know they're not willing to tolerate a lack of action.
Snuka blocking some punches.
Snuka is trying to wear down his opponent with knees to the body.
Nice elbow from Snuka.
Bader wants to stall.
Snuka creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Bader's defenses.
Jimmy Snuka has scored more points in the clinch so far.
Snuka with a knee to the head.
Snuka tries to land a knee to the head but Bader blocks with his arms.
Bader wants to break free but Snuka has control.
Bader wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
A right hand to the body from Snuka.
Snuka pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.
Bader is trying to break the clinch but Snuka has him pressed against the cage.
Snuka landing knees to the head.
Snuka keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Bader's efforts to push away.
Snuka is trying to slow down the pace in the clinch, to catch his breath.
A frustrated look appears on Bader's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Snuka has Bader pressed against the cage, preventing Bader from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Snuka prevents Bader from breaking the clinch.
Snuka lands a right hand.
Bader is trying to break the clinch but Snuka has him pressed against the cage.
Snuka crunches a lovely knee into Bader's ribcage.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Jimmy Snuka dominated that second round.
The cut man is working on Darth Bader's cut.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! This is the final round!

Snuka throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Bader.
Snuka has his hands up protecting his head but a hook from Bader finds it's way round the side to connect with Snuka's head.

Bader tries to keep at a distance but Snuka has taken the fight into the clinch.
Bader working hard to break the clinch.
Bader misses with some punches.
Snuka landing knees to the body.
Bader tries to break the clinch but Snuka is controlling the position.
Bader looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Snuka dodges an elbow strike from Bader.
Snuka with a knee to the head.
Snuka is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Bader can do to turn this around?
Snuka keeps control of Bader as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Bader is trying to break the clinch but Snuka has him pressed against the cage.
Snuka connects with a knee to the head.
Snuka working Bader over with knees to the body.
Snuka creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Bader's defenses.
Both fighters working to control the clinch.
Snuka lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Snuka scores with a knee to the head.
Snuka working Bader over with knees to the body.
Snuka lands a knee to the body.
Snuka gets through Bader's defenses to land a nice punch to the side of the head.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Bader can't break the clinch.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Snuka lands an elbow inside that Bader shrugs off.
Bader misses with some punches.
Snuka scores with a knee to the head.
Bader has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Bader is trying to force a seperation but Snuka has the dominant position.
Snuka lands a nice knee to the body.
Bader misses with a hook from the clinch.
A knee to the head by Snuka.
Bader is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Bader has had enough of the clinch but Snuka keeps him there for the moment.
Snuka lands a nice knee to the body.
Bader struggles to land a body shot inside as Snuka controls his hands.
Bader has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Bader takes a knee right on the jaw!
Bader throws a head punch that misses.
Bader can't break the clinch.
Snuka effectively controlling the action here.
Bader looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Snuka putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Bader in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Both guys are working to get underhooks.
Bader can't break the clinch.
Bader throws an elbow that misses.

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.
Bader tries to stall but Snuka uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Snuka lands a knee to the head.

Snuka breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Snuka avoids the body shot from Bader.
Bader throws a right and a left that Snuka avoids nicely.

Snuka clinches up with Bader and pushes him back against the cage.
Snuka prevents Bader from breaking the clinch.
Kneeeeees! The crowd are calling for knees to the body. Snuka obliges.
Snuka lands a damaging elbow.
Snuka lands an elbow just above Bader 's eye.
Snuka lands a damaging elbow.
Snuka scores with a knee to the head.
Snuka lands an elbow just above Bader 's eye.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Snuka as Bader tries to tie him up.
Bader doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Snuka lands an elbow that stopped Bader in his tracks for a moment.
Snuka keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Bader's efforts to push away.
Bader takes an elbow to the forehead.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Snuka with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Bader pushes off and fires off an elbow that misses, before clinching up again, against the cage.

Snuka escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Bader throws a series of punches but Snuka moves out of range.
Bader connects with a body shot.
Bader lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
A big right from Bader misses.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Snuka.
Snuka blocks a jab.
Snuka tries to clinch but Bader moves out of range.
Bader throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Jab, jab by Bader - just one landing.
Bader misses the body punch
letting Snuka counter with a right hand.
Snuka moves away from the strike by Bader.
Snuka moves out of range as Bader strikes.

Snuka darts in and clinches Bader up against the cage.
Bader tries to break the clinch but Snuka is controlling the position.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Snuka lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Bader working hard to break the clinch.
Snuka lands a right hand.
Snuka lands an elbow inside that Bader shrugs off.
Snuka has Bader pressed against the cage, preventing Bader from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Snuka with a knee to the head.
Snuka with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Bader wants to break free but Snuka has control.
Snuka keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Bader's efforts to push away.
A knee to the head by Snuka.
Bader has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Bader takes an elbow to the forehead.
Bader tries to circle away but Snuka has him pinned against the cage.
Snuka lands a knee to the head.
Snuka lands a damaging elbow.
Darth Bader has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Bader blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Bader swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Bader misses with a hook from the clinch.
Bader wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Bader wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Snuka has him pressed against the cage.
Bader misses with a hook from the clinch.
Jimmy Snuka is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Snuka.
Snuka lands a knee to the head.

And that's the end of the fight!
Jimmy Snuka showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Snuka has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Alan Glass scores the fight 30:27
Judge Robert Twigg scores the fight 30:27
Judge Stewart Dunkirk scores the fight 30:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jimmy Snuka!