PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between TIberio Norris (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jon Jones (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). This should be a great matchup!

Norris
vs
Jones

186 cm
25
199 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

183 cm
22
180 lbs
2 - 2 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Solid boxing
Good chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Determined

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, TIberio Norris!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Jon Jones!
The judges for this bout are Edson Gomes, Luis Engracia and Paulo Santos.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Jones misses with a takedown attempt - Norris sprawls well and throws a nice strike on the way out which just misses.
Norris goes to the watering hole and comes back with a big thumbs up from the judges as he scores a three punch combo.

Jones dives in and scores a takedown into Norris's guard.
The referee looks like he's ready to step in and stand the fighters back up.
Norris wants to sweep here but Jones controlling him for the moment.
Jones looking to sit in guard and control but Norris gets the butterfly guard and sweeps. He's now in the guard on the top.
Norris forces his way into half guard.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Jones tries to roll over but Norris keeps him under control.
Jones avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Norris.

Norris is thinking about going for an arm triangle but he can't free his leg.
Jones trying to control here.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Jones pushes Norris off looking to stand but Norris dives back in and keeps control.
Norris content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
Norris passes to side control.
Norris controlling from side mount.
Jones is looking for a sweep.
Norris trying to control the action but Jones is working from the bottom.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Norris working away.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Norris is working Jones over with some ground and pound from side control.
The fighters are starting to perspire pretty heavily.
Norris working away.

Norris tries for a kimura but Jones is defending well.
Jones tries to buck Norris off but Norris is having none of it.
Norris works a knee to the body and follows up with a nice elbow to the head.
Norris working the head with strikes.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Norris is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Jones has escaped the position, nice work there.
Norris lands some shots froms side control.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
The ground and pound from Norris seems to be hitting the mat more than his opponent.

Norris has had enough of the ground for now and decides to stand.
A right-left combo lands from Norris.
Norris connects with a right hand. Jones shakes it off.
Jones looks for a takedown but Norris sprawls well.
Jones looks gassed!
Norris fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Jones is out of range.
Jones moves out of range of the leg kick from Norris.
Norris moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Jones showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Norris.
Norris lands with an uppercut that bounces Jones off the cage and back into range.
Norris with a nice cross.

Jones is rocked!
Norris connects with a right that clearly hurt Jones. He's backed up against the cage with nowhere to go as Norris proceeds to tee off with vicious combinations till Jones collapses and taps out under the pressure!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). TIberio Norris!
A very excited looking TIberio Norris rambled incoherently for about 5 minutes post fight about how awesome he is. It was kinda funny for a while but then everyone got annoyed.