PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Randal Coutour (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Barde Mopsi (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Randal Coutour had a look across the cage there at his opponent. He definitely means business

Coutour
vs
Mopsi

190 cm
28
200 lbs
9 - 6 - 0

180 cm
26
185 lbs
8 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Very strong

BJJ Brown Belt
Dangerous knees
Good gas tank

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the middleweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 9 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Randal Coutour!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 8 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Barde Mopsi!
The judges for this bout are George Francis, Chris Downing and Daniel Franklin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Mopsi moves away from the strike by Coutour.
Coutour swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Coutour on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Coutour misses with a straight right.
Coutour fails with a takedown attempt.

Coutour gets to the clinch - let's see what his plan is here.
Mopsi scores a nice knee to the body.
Mopsi lands an elbow that stopped Coutour in his tracks for a moment.
Nice elbow from Mopsi.
Mopsi crunches a lovely knee into Coutour's ribcage.
Coutour is breathing heavily.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Mopsi throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
The referee calls for Mopsi to work.
Mopsi lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Mopsi gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Coutour changes levels and goes for a takedown here. Mopsi fights it off and pushes away nicely.
Mopsi connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Mopsi lands a nice leg kick that just misses Coutour's sensitive parts.
Mopsi with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Coutour tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Mopsi connects with a solid leg kick.
Mopsi is moving around nicely and scores here with a single head shot.
Mopsi throws a quick inside leg kick.
Mopsi just misses with a punch to the body.
Coutour has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Mopsi.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Mopsi dances in quickly and lands a nice inside leg kick on Coutour. That did some damage!
Mopsi scores with a slapping inside leg kick.
Coutour takes a thudding leg kick, right into the meat of the thigh.

Mopsi takes the fight into the clinch.
Mopsi using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Some stalling of biblical proportions here from Mopsi.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Coutour is working for takedown but Mopsi is calmly controlling the position for now.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Randal Coutour. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Mopsi lands an elbow inside.
Mopsi unloads a knee to the mid-section. Coutour lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Knees to the body from Mopsi.
Coutour being controlled against the cage.
Mopsi lands a shoulder strike that jolts his opponent's head backwards.

Mopsi breaks from the clinch.
Mopsi scores with a leg kick.
Mopsi slaps away a takedown attempt from Coutour, before circling back to the center of the mat.
Coutour on the wrong end of a kick to the body.
Mopsi connects with a body shot.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Coutour walks into a jab.
Mopsi scores with a kick to the body.
A solid leg kick lands there for Mopsi.
Mopsi will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.
Mopsi connects with a jab.
Coutour fails with the takedown
and Mopsi counters with a good low kick that Coutour was not able to check.
Coutour takes a kick to the side of the head.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Coutour will need to tighten up his combinations if he doesn't want to gas himself out, swinging at thin air.

Mopsi drives through and clinches with Coutour against the cage.
Mopsi working Coutour over with knees to the body.

Mopsi breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Mopsi lands with a kick to the temple. Coutour shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"

Coutour is rocked!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Mopsi explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Oh Coutour is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Randal Coutour seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Mopsi has managed to clinch.
Clinched against the cage, Mopsi lands a big elbow that drops Coutour! The ref dives in to save him from more shots - Coutour is complaining that he's OK but he was done.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:13 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Barde Mopsi! Barde Mopsi retains his middleweight title!