PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Tony Stark (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Pyro Mancer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). I can't wait for this one - let's get the fighter introductions out of the way and get this one started!

Stark
vs
Mancer

190 cm
24
218 lbs
11 - 2 - 0

225 cm
23
224 lbs
9 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Very quick

Good wrestler
World class MT
Granite chin

Firebird Designs

GMMA Supplements 160
GMMA Supplements 160

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 11 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Tony Stark!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Helsinki, Pyro Mancer!
The judges for this bout are David Schapiro, John Roberts and Steve Montenegro.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Stark throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Mancer looking to throw a kick but he's pulled out of it.
Mancer slips a jab and a cross from Stark.
Mancer with a nice cross.
Mancer attempts a low kick but it misses it's target.
Mancer is a painfully thin specimen of a man. You do wonder whether a good body kick would snap him clean in two.
Mancer slips a jab and a cross from Stark.
Mancer lands with a right hand.
Mancer moves out of range as Stark strikes.
Mancer throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
That kick from Mancer tenderised Stark's leg. Stark is trying to keep his angry face on.
Mancer cracks Stark with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Stark is on the wrong end of a nice combination from Mancer.
Stark moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Mancer misses with a body shot.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mancer moves into range and lands a nice leg kick.
A solid leg kick lands there for Mancer.
Some wild striking there from Mancer.
A nice leg kick lands there from Mancer.
Pyro Mancer seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Stark takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Stark connects with the punch.
Stark takes a shot to the eye socket. That's gotta hurt.
Mancer throws a nice head kick!
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Mancer throws a low kick but Stark avoids it.
Mancer ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Mancer throws out a leg kick but Stark moves out of range and Mancer only half commits.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mancer feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Stark's calf.
Mancer scores with a hook to the body. Stark takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
A swing and a miss from Stark.
Stark takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Mancer scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
Mancer throws a quick inside leg kick.
Mancer thumps Stark with a low kick.
Mancer throws a right and a left that Stark avoids nicely.
Stark throws a right and a left that both miss.
Stark throws a nice looking combination but Mancer bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Stark takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mancer staying out of range there.
Sloppy strikes from Stark. Those never looked like landing.
Mancer misses with a half-hearted attempt at a head kick.
A slapping leg kick lands for Mancer.
Stark swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Mancer throws a good cross that connects.
Mancer fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Stark has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Mancer connects with an inside leg kick.
Stark looks to land a combination but Mancer avoids it well.
Stark keeps the fight on the outside.
Stark swinging wildly here.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Mancer lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Mancer throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Stark is hobbling a little on that front leg after taking quite a few leg kicks so far in this fight.
Mancer is looking to slow Stark down with leg kicks.
Mancer dodges the punch combination from Stark.
Stark throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Stark misses with a hook. Mancer ducked under it nicely.
Stark bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Stark misses with a hook.
Stark throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Pyro Mancer dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Stark rushes forward with a series of wild hooks but Mancer moves out of range and avoids them all easily.
Stark looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Pyro Mancer seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Mancer fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Stark looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
A solid leg kick lands there for Mancer.
Mancer is using his reach advantage to land shots from outside his opponent's range.
Stark steps to his left, right into the path of a big body kick from Mancer. That one must have hurt.
Mancer scores with a kick to the body.
Mancer lands a jab.
Stark misses with a jab, cross combination.
Good leg kick by Mancer there. It's the ones that make that thud noise that hurt and that was an almighty thud.
Stark avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Both fighters are absolutely exhausted here.
Mancer fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Stark has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mancer lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
A shot to the liver by Mancer. Beautiful body shot.
Stark misses with a double jab
and Mancer counters with a low kick, right behind Stark 's knee.
This entire fight has taken place on the feet so far and you wonder whether Stark might be better served trying to take this one to the ground because he's losing the standup battle so far.
Mancer buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Stark takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Mancer tries to close the distance and clinch but Stark swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Mancer scores with a sloppy punch to the body. Not much technique there but it did the business.
Stark is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.
Mancer has used his reach advantage pretty well so far tonight.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
A cross from Mancer lands.
Mancer scores with a punch to the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mancer throws out a powerful jab.
Mancer fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Stark.
Mancer scores with a reasonable looking shot to the body. Stark doesn't seem bothered though.
Mancer connects with a solid leg kick.
Mancer has been the more effective fighter overall so far.
That's a knee to de groin and it's over and out! Stark crumples to the ground after an illegal strike from Mancer - the referee stops the clock and Stark gets 5 minutes to recover from that one. "I'm sorry" says Mancer. Stark manages to get back to his feet and the fight resumes.
Mancer with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Mancer fakes a head punch and goes low to the body. Nicely done.
Mancer throws a body kick that sends a sickening thudding noise reverberating around the arena.
Stark stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Mancer.
Mancer throws a head kick that misses.
Mancer moves into range and connects with a jab.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mancer throws a head kick that looked like it stung.
Mancer scores with a leg kick.
Stark throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Mancer showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Stark.
The fight stays on the outside here - Mancer looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Tony Stark is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Good work by Stark as he checks the leg kick.
Stark scores with a nice strike.
Mancer throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Stark takes one to the chin there.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Mancer bobs and weaves and then throws a good body kick.
Mancer fakes low and throws an overhand right that catches Stark on the side of the head.
Mancer feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Stark's calf.
Mancer tries to clinch up.
Mancer lands a nice leg kick that just misses Stark's sensitive parts.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Mancer lands with a slapping head kick.
Mancer scores with a leg kick.
Mancer throws a head kick that misses.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
A slapping leg kick lands for Mancer.
Mancer dodges the punch combination from Stark.
Stark misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Pyro Mancer showed his class in that round. I'd imagine he'll take it on all the scorecards.
OK. That's time! The bell goes and we're back to the action. And we move into the final round!

Mancer takes a jab right on the kisser.
Mancer connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Stark checks a leg kick nicely.
Stark takes a shot to the body in his stride.
A chopping leg kick lands by Mancer.
Stark is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Stark misses with a double jab

and Mancer counters by moving into the clinch.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Mancer.
Mancer misses with a hook from the clinch.
Stark dodges an elbow strike from Mancer.
Mancer fails to land with a short punch on the inside.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Stark blocks an elbow strike.

Stark manages to break the clinch.
Mancer throws a front kick that sends Stark stumbling back into the cage.
Both fighters are breathing heavily.
Mancer fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Stark.
Mancer tries to work over Stark's front leg with a kick but Stark checks it.
Mancer stuns Stark with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Mancer is looking to clinch.
A nice leg kick lands there from Mancer.
Mancer tries to close the distance and clinch up but Stark swats him away and circles back towards the center.
Mancer connects with a high kick.
Stark takes one to the side of the head.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Mancer throws a leg kick but he was too far away and it doesn't land.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Mancer.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

Mancer fakes with an overhand right and moves in to clinch with Stark, pushing him back against the cage.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Mancer.
Mancer misses with some punches.
Stark is looking to break free of the clinch but Mancer has double underhooks.
Stark has had enough of the clinch but Mancer keeps him there for the moment.
Stark looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
Mancer lands an elbow inside.
Mancer lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Mancer tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Stark avoids it.
Stark blocks a couple of punches on the inside.
Mancer trying to land knees to the body.
Mancer leaning against his opponent.
Stark wants to break free. God knows he wants to breaaaak freeee.
Mancer looking to throw knees to the head but Stark is blocking nicely.
Mancer misses with a knee strike.
Mancer looking to throw knees to the head but Stark is blocking nicely.
A short right from Mancer on the inside.

Stark's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Mancer avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Pyro Mancer is fighting for a decision - hopefully he's judged it right and he's actually winning the fight.
Some bone on bone action there as Stark checks a low kick. Luckily it wasn't a particularly hard one.
Stark misses the jab.
Mancer fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Stark is out of range.
Stark checks a leg kick nicely.
A chopping leg kick lands by Mancer.
Mancer throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Stark checks a leg kick.
Tony Stark has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Mancer staying out of range there.
As the round comes to an end the crowd are showing their appreciation for a great round of action.
Stark fails to land with a series of punches.
Mancer turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.

And that's the end of the fight!
Pyro Mancer comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Mancer has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. 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 David Schapiro scores the fight 27:30
Judge John Roberts scores the fight 27:30
Judge Steve Montenegro scores the fight 27:30

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Pyro Mancer!