PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Shawn Thornton (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tim Augustine (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Augustine has chosen The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog as his entrance music. Both fighter's entrance songs getting the crowd jumping here.

Thornton
vs
Augustine

187 cm
23
217 lbs
8 - 6 - 1

193 cm
24
216 lbs
12 - 9 - 0

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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 8 - 6 - 1, fighting out of New York, Shawn Thornton!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 9 - 0, fighting out of New York, Tim Augustine!
The judges for this bout are Alyssa Summers, Jorge Garcia and Lou da Vinci.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Thornton throws a lazy uppercut

and Augustine counters with a takedown into side control.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Augustine working the ground and pound but he's contacting the mat, not the fighter.
Augustine misses with an attempted head punch from side control.
Augustine advances nicely into full mount.
Thornton is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Thornton tries to get back to half guard but can't.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Augustine working away from the top, dropping strikes.

Augustine is thinking about an arm triangle here, looking to tighten it up before moving to side control. Thornton can see it coming though and defends well with a couple of strikes to the head and some good arm positioning.
Augustine looking to ground and pound but Thornton is blocking nicely.
Augustine lands a nice shot to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Augustine sends his fist crashing into the mat - the crowd let out a collective ooooooh. Let's hope he's not broken it!
Augustine lands a heavy elbow.
Augustine unloads with some shots from mount but Thornton bucks and avoids them well.
Augustine has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Augustine is still in mount, landing shots to his trapped opponent. Thornton can't stay in a position like this for much longer.

Thornton is rocked!

It looks like Shawn Thornton has been cut.
Augustine looking to ground and pound but Thornton is blocking nicely.
Augustine breaks from Thornton's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Oh Thornton is still in real trouble! Will he be able to recover?!!
Augustine scoring with strikes but Thornton is staying in there.
Thornton is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.
Augustine throwing sloppy strikes here. Perhaps if he tightened up his striking from such a dominant position, he'd be able to finish easier.
Augustine looking to finish with strikes here!
Thornton seems to have got his legs back now.
Thornton is in a horrible position here, under a barrage of strikes, he's managing to avoid any damage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Augustine looking to ground and pound but Thornton is blocking nicely.
Thornton is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Augustine connects with a bit shot that sees Thornton covering up! More strikes from Augustine and the referee jumps in to stop the fight! Augustine is our winner by TKO!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:31 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Tim Augustine!