PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a welterweight MMA rules bout between Zane Lieu (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jordie St Pietro (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Lieu's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, "You Don't Know" by Eminem. The crowd seem to be enjoying St Pietro's choice of entrance music: GSP TRIBUTE. Both fighters really staring eachother down here, as Jordie St Pietro enters the cage!

Lieu
vs
St Pietro

180 cm
27
180 lbs
13 - 4 - 2

179 cm
27
170 lbs
8 - 2 - 0

Decent wrestler
Solid boxing
Granite chin

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
Powerful

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the welterweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 13 - 4 - 2, fighting out of Montreal, Zane Lieu!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Jordie St Pietro!
The judges for this bout are Elvis Blanc, Gregory Folan and Alec Ball.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Lieu misses with a straight left.
Lieu scores with a straight right hand, right through his opponent's guard.
Lieu throws an off balance right hand
and St Pietro counters with an outside leg kick.
Lieu throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Lieu throws a big shot that misses.
Lieu misses with an uppercut.
St Pietro is looking to chop away at Lieu's legs.
St Pietro displays some good footwork, moving neatly out of range as Lieu throws out the jab.
Lieu lands a jab to the head.
St Pietro shoots in for a takedown. "Ole!" shouts Lieu as he jumps to the side.
Lieu throws an uppercut from half a mile away. St Pietro sees it coming and avoids it easily.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Lieu misses with a wild body shot.
Lieu blocks a jab.
Lieu moves out of range of the body kick from St Pietro.
Lieu misses with an uppercut. St Pietro saw that one coming.
Lieu misses with a left hand
and St Pietro counters with a three punch combo that has Lieu backing up. Lieu nods at St Pietro to acknowledge the strikes.
St Pietro misses with a low kick.
Lieu misses with a body shot.
Zane Lieu seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Lieu throws a hook but St Pietro blocks it.
Lieu misses with a body punch
and St Pietro cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
St Pietro pushes Lieu away with a front kick.
St Pietro avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Lieu lands a nice hook to St Pietro's body. St Pietro takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
St Pietro blocks a jab.
St Pietro scores with a nice body kick.
Lieu jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
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!
Lieu digs a good hook to St Pietro's body.
Lieu tests St Pietro's chin there with a solid looking shot.
St Pietro darts in trying to clinch
and Lieu connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
St Pietro is looking to score with low kicks.
St Pietro feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Lieus jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
St Pietro blocks a jab.
Lieu feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits St Pietros jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
Lieu paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Lieu scores with a punch to the gut of his opponent.
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!
Lieu misses with a straight left.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
St Pietro slips a jab from Lieu.
A jab lands there for Lieu.
St Pietro will have to do better than that with his takedown attempts.
A jab from Lieu misses.
Lieu misses with a low kick.
Lieu swings and misses with a hook to the body.
Lieu tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but St Pietro was well out of range. Poor timing from Lieu.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
St Pietro gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Lieu.
Lieu swings and misses with a hook to the body.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Zane Lieu dominated that round.
The fighters get back to their feet, the hooter sounds and we're back to the action!

St Pietro slips a jab and a cross from Lieu.
The fighters circle momentarily. Lieu darts into range and connects with a nice straight punch.
Lieu avoids the body shot from St Pietro.
St Pietro keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Lieu.
Lieu throws a combination but it was largely blocked by St Pietro.
Lieu connects with a lovely right hand, straight down the pipe.
St Pietro scores with a nice right hand.
Lieu takes a step towards his opponent and connects with a left hand, before circling away.

St Pietro shoots in and gets a takedown into Lieu's guard.
This has been an exciting period of action!
St Pietro passes easily into side control. Nice work.

That's one minute gone in the round.
St Pietro is looking to take a break and control but Lieu is keeping him honest, looking to work from the bottom.
Lieu can't do much from the bottom here.

St Pietro looking for an arm triangle but it's way too loose to do anything.
Lieu on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Lieu tries to get out of the position.

St Pietro swings around for an armbar but Lieu sees it coming a mile off and turns beautifully into St Pietro's guard.
St Pietro is adopting a defensive guard.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Lieu trying to control but St Pietro is working from the bottom.
Lieu throwing shots from guard but he's hitting more mat than opponent.
St Pietro seems keen to control rather than go for a submission, at least for now.
St Pietro is trying to control the position but Lieu postures up.

The ref stands the fighters back up because Zane Lieu just wasn't active enough.
St Pietro thows a left - swing and a miss!
Nice shot by Lieu.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
St Pietro fails with a takedown attempt.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Lieu waves his right hand out in front of him, looking to distract St Pietro. Oh, he's unloaded a beast of a left hand - it worked! He's dropped St Pietro to the canvas! Can he finish him!?

St Pietro is rocked!
Lieu loads up on a big left hand. St Pietro felt that one! He's just covering up now, not defending himself intelligently - Lieu looks towards the ref and unloads with 3 more big shots and the ref has no choice but to stop the fight! St Pietro can't hide his disappointment, as Lieu celebrates the victory.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:37 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Zane Lieu!
Zane Lieu retains his welterweight title!