PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Lenny Lennyville (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Tony Cuevas (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). The crowd seem to be enjoying Cuevas's choice of entrance music: Leave Us Alone/ Dead By Gun. Both these guys have solid standup skills and neither is particularly fantastic on the ground, so let's hope for a nice standup war!

Lennyville
vs
Cuevas

180 cm
26
250 lbs
10 - 7 - 0

195 cm
26
257 lbs
8 - 4 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Decent boxing
Knockout power

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 10 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Lenny Lennyville!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Tony Cuevas!
The judges for this bout are Elvis Blanc, Robert Douchet and Trevor Gratis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Cuevas throws a head kick that half lands.

Cuevas changes levels and drives through with a really nice takedown into side control. Lennyville looks really pissed at himself for not defending that better.
Cuevas working the ground and pound from side control.
Lennyville on the wrong end of some ground and pound.
Lennyville is pushing Cuevas's head away, looking to escape. Cuevas manages to hold on to the position though.
Cuevas is chipping away with strikes.
Cuevas scores with punches from side control.
Cuevas lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Lennyville down.
Lennyville taking a bit of punishment here - Cuevas scoring with strikes.
Lennyville on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Lennyville tries to get out of the position.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Cuevas cracks Lennyville with a big elbow.
Cuevas cracks Lennyville with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Cuevas controlling the position from side mount.
Cuevas working the head and body with strikes.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
Lennyville takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.
Cuevas staying calm.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Cuevas lands a decent elbow from side control.
Lennyville taking a bit of punishment here - Cuevas scoring with strikes.
Cuevas cracks Lennyville with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Cuevas lands a few punches from side control.
Cuevas happy to just control the position for now.
Cuevas working the body and head with strikes.
Lennyville is breathing heavily.
Cuevas cracks Lennyville with a big elbow.
Lennyville wants to control but Cuevas postures up.
Cuevas works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Lennyville can't do much from the bottom here.
Cuevas has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Cuevas slows the pace down.
Cuevas lands an elbow.
Check out the look on Cuevas's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
Cuevas in side control lands a nice looking series of punches and elbows.
Cuevas works to advance to full mount. Lennyville defends for a few seconds but eventually he succumbs.
Cuevas with good strikes from the mount here!
Cuevas fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
Cuevas tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Cuevas working Lennyville over with strikes here.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cuevas connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
BOOM! Cuevas connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Cuevas controlling his opponent.
Lennyville knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Cuevas on the ground.
Cuevas with good strikes from the mount here!
Cuevas lands a couple of nice shots there from mount.
Cuevas lands a big shot there that rocks Lennyville but he's holding on and managing to survive for now.
Cuevas landing punches.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Cuevas scores with a couple of good head shots there.
Cuevas controlling the position easily from mount.
Cuevas with the ground and pound from mount.
Cuevas content just to control the position here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Cuevas is landing with some decent strikes but Lennyville is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Cuevas tucks in and makes sure he doesn't lose the dominant position.
Cuevas dominating with strikes here.
Lennyville takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Cuevas lands a nice shot to the head.
Cuevas connects with a couple of good shots from mount.
Cuevas dominating with strikes here.
Lennyville is bucking up trying to escape but Cuevas cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Lennyville is in a horrible position here. Cuevas smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.
Cuevas fakes a shot to the body and cracks his opponent in the head. Nice ground and pound there!
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Tony Cuevas dominated that round.
The referee calls time. The cornermen exit stage left and we're back to business.

Cuevas shoots in and scores a nice double leg takedown into half guard.
Cuevas drops an elbow to the side of Lennyville's head.
Cuevas lands with a punch from half guard.
Cuevas lands with a punch from half guard.
Ground and pound from Cuevas.
Cuevas has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
Well, if Cuevas is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight… I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza… Yum. Can't wait.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Cuevas is nestled in close to Lennyville, controlling him well. He's worked in a nice elbow to the side of the head as well, for good measure.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Cuevas lands a nice short elbow.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Well, if Cuevas is going to just lie there, perhaps we should talk about what we're having for dinner tonight… I'm having a ham and pineapple pizza… Yum. Can't wait.
Cuevas drops an elbow to the side of Lennyville's head.
Cuevas has freed up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
Cuevas with the ground and pound from mount.
Cuevas lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Lennyville hang on?
Cuevas sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Cuevas landing shots from mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lennyville takes a big shot to the head but keeps on trying to improve his position.
Tony Cuevas has got the better of the ground game so far.
Cuevas unloading with bombs!
This has been an exciting period of action!
Cuevas pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.
Lennyville is bucking up trying to escape but Cuevas cracks him with another couple of good strikes.
Cuevas is landing with some decent strikes but Lennyville is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Cuevas sitting in mount, just looking to control for the moment.
Cuevas with good strikes from the mount here!
Cuevas lands a heavy elbow.
Cuevas with the ground and pound from mount.
Cuevas punishing his opponent with strikes.
Cuevas unloading with bombs!
Cuevas raining down shots from the mount!

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Cuevas loads up on a couple of big shots to the head that have Lennyville scrambling to escape. He can't get free though and several more unanswered shots from Cuevas land to the head. The referee has no choice but to stop the fight. Cuevas stands and salutes the crowd.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:21 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Tony Cuevas!