PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Josh Ras (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jakob Juarez (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Ras
vs
Juarez

176 cm
30
195 lbs
6 - 2 - 1

180 cm
30
184 lbs
11 - 3 - 0

Good wrestling
Solid boxing
Very quick

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Good gas tank

-OVERDOSE Factory-

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 6 - 2 - 1, fighting out of Sydney, Josh Ras!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 3 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Jakob Juarez!
The judges for this bout are Summer Carpenter, Hugh Johnson and Bruno Hogan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Ras misses with a looping left.
Ras jabs Juarez to the body, keeping him at a distance.
Ras changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Juarez keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Ras.
Ras scores with a punch to the head.
Ras looks to throw the jab but Juarez is out of range.
Ras shoots for a takedown but Juarez saw that one coming a mile off and avoided it easily.
Ras throws a lazy uppercut
and Juarez counters with a stiff right hand.
Juarez ducks under a wild hook from Ras.
Ras's hands are dropping dangerously low here and Juarez connects clean with a right hook that sends him down to one knee! Ras scrambles back to his feet.
Ras looks to land a left hand but Juarez moved out of range nicely.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Juarez ducks under a wild hook from Ras.
Juarez bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Ras swings for the body but Juarez moves out of range.
Ras throws a looping overhand right but Juarez ducks down to avoid it.
Ras misses with a looping left.
Ras misses with a hook to the body
and Ras takes a counter punch right on the button for his troubles.
Ras swinging wildly here.
Juarez closes the distance and takes a jab right on the nose as he does so.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Juarez lands with a cross.
A combination from Ras does no damage.
Juarez keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Nice cross by Juarez.
Juarez lands a glancing blow to the side of Ras's head.
Ras swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Juarez tries to clinch but Ras moves out of range.
A big left from Ras misses.
Juarez turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Juarez takes a jab right on the nose. That must have hurt but he shrugs his shoulders and looks to return the favor.
Nice defenses there by Juarez.
Jab from Ras.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Juarez avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Juarez misses with a jab, cross combination.
Josh Ras seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Juarez keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Juarez takes a body punch that cleary hurt but he's trying not to show any weakness.
Nice body punch from Juarez.
Juarez defending well as Ras loads up on a big left hand.
Ras misses with a body shot
letting Juarez counter with a right hand.
Ras fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Ras misses with a body shot.
Ras has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Juarez.
Juarez misses with an uppercut. Ras saw that one coming.
Ras throws a predictable looking body shot
and Juarez counters with a left and a right that stings Ras.
Ras fails to land the takedown.
Ras lands with a right hand.
Ras throws a jab but it's blocked by Juarez.
Juarez misses with a looping left.
Juarez stuffs a takedown. It's all about dictating where the fight takes place and Juarez wants it to stay on the feet.
That's three failed takedown attempts in the round for Josh Ras. That's going to take a lot out of him.
Juarez scores with a leg kick.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Decent striking displayed by Juarez there.
Juarez takes a solid shot to the body. That one hurt him but he's trying not to show it.
Juarez cracks Ras with a hook to the jaw. Both fighters smile at eachother and high-five before getting back down to business.
Juarez displays good takedown defense there as he swats away a double leg from Ras.
Juarez moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.

Ras is rocked!
Juarez throws an uppercut from hell that sends Ras clean off his feet! He's out cold! Juarez stands back and admires his work as he thinks about that KO of the night award that is surely being wrapped up for him back stage.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:30 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). Jakob Juarez!