PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Vince Glaire (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Boy Boy Nyembe (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Glaire has a slight injury, which hopefully won't affect the fight too much. Boy Boy Nyembe has the eye of the tiger tonight.

Glaire
vs
Boy Nyembe

180 cm
22
198 lbs
0 - 1 - 0

189 cm
24
218 lbs
1 - 1 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

Good wrestler
Counter striker
Determined

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 0 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Vince Glaire!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Boy Boy Nyembe!
The judges for this bout are Alec Ball, Trevor Gratis and Robert Douchet.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Nyembe uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Glaire.

Nyembe drives through with a takedown into guard.
Nyembe stands up over Glaire, holding his feet. He dives back in and lands a decent shot to the head.
Nyembe lands a couple of decent looking shots.
Glaire is breathing heavily.
Nyembe connects with a couple of short punches.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Glaire can't keep his opponent in guard - Nyembe advances to half guard, no doubt looking to mount.
Nyembe not doing much here.
Nyembe is trying to control the action in half guard but Glaire is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Nyembe takes a deep breath and rests his weight momentarily on top of his opponent, to control the position.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Nyembe looks to score some points with some ground and pound.
Nyembe scoring with strikes to the body and head.
Nyembe lands with an elbow from half guard - that looked like it hurt.
Ground and pound from Nyembe.
Nyembe works his way into side control.
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!
Nyembe is moving around in side control but his primary objective seems to be to maintain the position.
Glaire knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Nyembe on the ground.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Nyembe cracks Glaire with an elbow. That is naaassty.
Nyembe looks up at the clock and then as Glaire takes his cue and looks up at the clock too, Nyembe smacks him right in the chops with a big elbow! How rude!

It looks like Vince Glaire has been cut.
Nyembe content to control the pace. The referee will try and keep them active though.
Glaire on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Glaire tries to get out of the position.
Glaire takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.
Nyembe in side control, just content to control the action for now.
A big shot lands for Nyembe! That's hurt Glaire! Will he recover? Nyembe fires away with more strikes and the referee has to step in to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:59 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Boy Boy Nyembe!