PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a featherweight MMA rules bout between Joe Peezy (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thurston Moore (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Chooooooooon! I think Peezy might be my favorite fighter, now he's come out to Majin Buu Theme Song. I don't know about you partner, but I'm pumped for this one!

Peezy
vs
Moore

164 cm
24
135 lbs
3 - 4 - 0

182 cm
24
145 lbs
4 - 1 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent elbows
Experienced

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Heavy handed

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 3 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, Joe Peezy!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 4 - 1 - 0, fighting out of London, Thurston Moore!
The judges for this bout are Sam Margolis, James Atkins and William Gold.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Moore loads up on a big right hand but Peezy slips the punch.
Peezy throws out a loose jab but Moore uses good head movement to avoid it.
Moore looks to land a combination but Peezy avoids it well.
Moore misses with a double jab.
Moore lands with an overhand left.
Peezy drops his hands momentarily and Moore takes advantage with a crisp shot to the head.
Moore throws a lazy uppercut
and Peezy finishes the little exchange by landing a big kick to the body.
Moore scores with a body shot.
Thurston Moore seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Peezy lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Peezy moves out of range as Moore strikes.
Moore throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Peezy connects with a leg kick. Moore looked like he was expecting something else and didn't defend it.
Moore is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Moore looks to score with a jab to the body but Peezy is just out of range.
Moore swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Peezy throws a body punch but Moore moves out of range.
Moore lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
Peezy showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Moore.
Peezy tries a head kick but it misses.

Peezy closes the distance and clinches.
Peezy lands an elbow just above Moore 's eye.
Peezy avoiding damage.
Moore has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Moore is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Peezy lands an elbow that stopped Moore in his tracks for a moment.
Moore can't break the clinch.
Peezy lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Knees to the body from Peezy.
Peezy tries a knee to the head but Moore blocks it.
Peezy lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Peezy with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Peezy displaying some good clinch control by pressing Moore up against the cage.
Peezy unloads a knee to the mid-section. Moore lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.

Peezy breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Peezy moves away from the strike by Moore.
Moore looks to score with a jab to the body but Peezy is just out of range.
Moore lands a head shot.
Peezy misses with a two punch combination.
Moore misses with a wild combination.
No joy there for Moore, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Moore tests Peezy's chin there with a solid looking shot.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Moore fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Peezy is breathing heavily.
Moore lunges in with an uppercut that skims his opponent's chin.
Moore dips to his left and cracks Peezy with an uppercut!
Wow, both these guys are really going for it!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Moore throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Peezy.
Moore throws a one two combo.
Peezy throws a nice looking combination but Moore bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Peezy misses with a double jab.
Moore misses with a few strikes there.
Moore misses with a straight right.

Peezy closes the distance and pushes Moore back into the cage.
The referee calls for Peezy to work.
Peezy lands an elbow that stopped Moore in his tracks for a moment.
Peezy lands a nice elbow.
Moore blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Moore is trying to break the clinch but Peezy is controlling him.

Peezy breaks from the clinch.
Moore scores with a nice head shot.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Peezy displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Moore throws out the jab.
Moore lands an overhand left. A wild punch that just about connected.
Moore misses with the combination.
Moore closes the distance and lands a one-two.

Peezy is rocked!
Moore shuffles to his left behind two crisp jabs. Peezy eats them both and turns towards Moore to reposition himself and eats a stinging right hand-left hook combo.
Oh Peezy is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!

Peezy has closed the distance and engaged Moore in a clinch.
Peezy seems to have got his legs back now.
A frustrated look appears on Moore's face as he tries to break the clinch.
Moore has had enough of the clinch but Peezy keeps him there for the moment.
Moore has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
Moore looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Peezy keeps control of Moore as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
A frustrated look appears on Moore's face as he tries to break the clinch.

Peezy breaks from the clinch.
No joy there for Moore, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Peezy takes a shot right to the bread basket.
Moore pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Moore throws a lazy uppercut
and Peezy counters with a body kick that stops Moore in his tracks momentarily.
Moore throws a jab but it's blocked by Peezy.
Moore lunges at Peezy with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Peezy's hand.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Moore tries to keep at a distance but Peezy has taken the fight into the clinch.
Moore is trying to push Peezy away but Peezy has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Moore is trying to force a seperation but Peezy has the dominant position.
Peezy goes for a takedown attempt but Moore pushes him away and we're back to fighting at a distance.
Moore is landing a lot of head punches in this opening round! Peezy had better start moving his head a bit unless he wants his face to turn into pâté.
Good standup being displayed there by Moore as he connects with a hook.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Moore looks to land a combination but Peezy avoids it well.
Moore misses with a straight left.
Moore falls off balance throwing a combination
and Peezy counters with a three punch combo that has Moore backing up. Moore nods at Peezy to acknowledge the strikes.
Moore misses with a few strikes there.
Moore jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Moore is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Moore takes an elbow to the temple.
Moore is trying to push Peezy away but Peezy has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Moore takes an elbow to the forehead.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Thurston Moore dominated that round.
That's time! Peezy's corner gives him a slap on the ass as he gets ready to fight.

Peezy throws a leg kick that misses.
Moore avoids a kick to the body.
Moore fails to land with a series of punches.

Peezy gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Peezy lands a nice uppercut.
Moore is trying to push Peezy away but Peezy has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Peezy landing knees to the head.
Moore can't break the clinch.
Moore wants to get back to striking at distance but Peezy won't allow it.
Peezy gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Peezy lands an elbow inside that Moore shrugs off.
Peezy comes over the top with an elbow. That landed flush.
Peezy throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Moores head.
Moore prevents a takedown attempt there.
Peezy keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Moore's efforts to push away.
We've had a slow start to the round here - hopefully the action picks up.
Moore wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Moore gets double underhooks to prevent a takedown attempt from Peezy.
Moore wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Moore is trying to force a seperation but Peezy has the dominant position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Moore wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Peezy has him pressed against the cage.
Peezy lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Peezy.
Moore takes an elbow to the temple.
Moore has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Moore wants to break free but Peezy has control.
Peezy with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Moore has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Moore is trying to break the clinch but Peezy is controlling him.
Peezy lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Moore wants to break free but Peezy has control.
Moore wants to break the clinch but can't.
Peezy has Moore pressed against the cage, preventing Moore from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Moore is trying to break the clinch but Peezy has him pressed against the cage.
Peezy leaning against his opponent.
Peezy trying to control the position but instead, Moore has worked for underhooks and has pushed Peezy into the cage.
Peezy trying to land knees to the body.
Peezy keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Moore's efforts to push away.
Peezy lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Moore wants to break the clinch but can't.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
The crowd are getting on the fighters' backs, as the pace has dropped off in the last minute or so.
Peezy throws a head punch that misses.
Peezy is working for takedown but Moore is calmly controlling the position for now.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Joe Peezy. That's going to take a lot out of him.
A head punch on the inside from Peezy fails to land.
Moore is trying to push Peezy away but Peezy has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Moore tries to break the clinch but Peezy is controlling the position.
Peezy keeps the fight in the clinch, despite Moore's efforts to push away.
Peezy is working hard here but doesn't seem to be able to control effectively, up against the cage.
Peezy working aggressively here.
Knees to the body from Peezy.
Moore is trying to break the clinch but Peezy has him pressed against the cage.
Moore has had enough of the clinch and is looking to separate.
Moore working hard to break the clinch.
Peezy creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Moore's defenses.
The two fighters are working to gain dominance in the clinch.
Peezy is working for a takedown up against the cage. He can't get it on this occasion though.
Moore looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Moore wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Peezy has him pressed against the cage.
Moore is trying to push Peezy away but Peezy has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Peezy prevents Moore from breaking the clinch.
Moore wants to break the clinch but can't.
Peezy will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Moore up against the cage.
Moore wants to break free but Peezy has control.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Moore can't break the clinch.
Moore wants to strike at distance but he can't break free of the clinch.

Peezy breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Moore tests Peezy's chin there with a solid looking shot.
Moore is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Peezy avoids a punch combination nicely.
Thurston Moore seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Moore lands a jab followed by a nice looking cross.
No joy there for Moore, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Peezy takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Moore misses with a wild combination.
Moore tries a low kick but Peezy avoids it.
Joe Peezy is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Moore misses with a two punch combination.
Moore swings away but doesn't land with a series of punches.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Moore takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.
Moore throws a body punch but Peezy moves out of range.
Peezy scores with a spinning back kick!
Moore avoids the body shot from Peezy.
Moore swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Peezy looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Peezy looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Peezy tries to bum rush Moore with a series of wild strikes but Moore uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Good standup being displayed there by Moore as he connects with a hook.
Moore throws a jab but it's blocked by Peezy.
Moore connects with a body shot.
Peezy needs to keep his hands up - Moore had a free shot at his head there.
Peezy takes a really solid shot there but just smiles back and shrugs his shoulders.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
A lazy left from Moore finds it's target.
Peezy moves out of range of the leg kick from Moore.
Peezy punishes Moore's body with a nice straight punch.

Peezy instigates a clinch.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Thurston Moore showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action! So, we enter the final round. Let's see if either fighter can bring us a finish, or whether we're going to the judges scorecards.

Peezy tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Moore thows a left - swing and a miss!
Moore misses with a series of wild punches.
A telegraphed right hand from Moore misses the target.
Moore scores with a nice right hand.
Peezy looks for the body kick but Moore saw that one coming.
Peezy gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Moore.
Peezy falls off balance throwing a combination
and Moore counters with a stiff right hand.
Good standup being displayed there by Moore as he connects with a hook.
A punch lands to the side of Peezy 's head but he takes it in his stride.
Moore throws a series of punches but Peezy avoids them all with ease.
Moore throws an overhand right that lands on Peezy's shoulder, as Peezy tries to avoid the shot.
A head kick misses from Moore.

Peezy clinches.
Moore stops a takedown attempt from Peezy.
Moore wants to push off and get back to the center of the mat but Peezy has him pressed against the cage.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Peezy scores with a knee to the head.

Peezy's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Peezy slips under a jab from Moore.
Moore slips a jab and a cross from Peezy.
Moore misses with a looping right.
No joy there for Moore, who threw a few shots but didn't land.
Peezy throws a feint and then finishes with a kick to the body.
Good standup being displayed there by Moore as he connects with a hook.
Moore lands a two punch combo.
Moore misses the jab.
Peezy looks like he's developed a pretty tasty lump over his left eye. He'll need to avoid taking much more damage to that.
Peezy looking to land some kicks to the body here.
Peezy takes one on the chin but keeps coming.
Peezy throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and Moore counters with a lovely shot to the body.

Peezy forces Moore back against the cage and clinches.
Moore wants to break the clinch but can't.
Peezy lands an elbow inside that Moore shrugs off.
Moore has had enough of the clinch but Peezy keeps him there for the moment.
Moore is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Peezy working Moore over with knees to the body.
Peezy has Moore pressed against the cage, preventing Moore from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
Moore tries to circle away but Peezy has him pinned against the cage.
Peezy lands a nice elbow.

Peezy pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Peezy throws a combination but it was largely blocked by Moore.
Nice shot lands for Moore.
Peezy takes a hook to the side of the head. I wonder if that's got his ears ringing.
Peezy falls off balance throwing a combination
and Moore counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
The fighters circle momentarily. Moore darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
Moore throws a low kick but Peezy avoids it.
Peezy slips a jab and a cross from Moore.
Moore throws a lazy uppercut

and Peezy counters by clinching up.

Peezy breaks from the clinch.
Moore lands a straight punch to the body, keeping Peezy at a distance.
Moore lands a nice shot to the body.
Peezy blocks a jab.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
A swing and a miss from Moore.
Moore misses with an uppercut

and Peezy counters by moving into the clinch. Good anticipation by Peezy.
A knee to the head by Peezy.

Peezy breaks the clinch.
Moore scores with a shot to the body.
Moore jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
Peezy looks to score with a jab to the body but Moore is just out of range.
Peezy needs to keep his hands up - Moore had a free shot at his head there.
Peezy throws a sloppy head kick and Moore moves out of range easily.
Peezy pushing out the jab but it's not landing.
Peezy takes a jab right on the kisser.
Moore throws a hook to the side of Peezy's head but Peezy sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.

Peezy closes the distance and clinches.
Peezy has Moore pressed against the cage, preventing Moore from circling away and getting back to striking at range.
A short uppercut from Peezy.
Moore stops a takedown attempt from Peezy.
Moore is trying to push Peezy away but Peezy has him pressed against the cage, so he's going nowhere.
Moore is trying to break free.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Moore is trying to break the clinch but Peezy is controlling him.
Moore is looking to break free of the clinch but Peezy has double underhooks.
Peezy keeps control of Moore as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Peezy stalls.
Peezy keeps control of Moore as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Peezy trying to land knees to the body.
Peezy prevents Moore from breaking the clinch.

Peezy pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Moore lands with a right hand.
Moore misses with a straight right.
Moore throws a series of punches but Peezy avoids them all with ease.
Peezy defending well as Moore loads up on a big left hand.
Thurston Moore is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.
Moore moves out of range of the body kick from Peezy.
Moore stooping low to avoid any incoming strikes and then lunges in with an uppercut come cross that lands flush.
Peezy looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Moore lunges at Peezy with a hook that half lands and is half blocked by Peezy's hand.
Joe Peezy has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Left hook, right uppercut from Moore.

And that's the end of the fight!
Thurston Moore comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
I've got Moore winning every round here. Surely the decision will go his way and he'll pick up a well deserved decision victory. 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 Sam Margolis scores the fight 27:30
Judge James Atkins scores the fight 27:30
Judge William Gold scores the fight 27:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Thurston Moore!