PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Jay Copeland (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Chuck Bauer (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Copeland comes to the cage accompanied by Avenged Sevenfold-Beast and the Harlot. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Copeland
vs
Bauer

187 cm
22
217 lbs
3 - 0 - 0

185 cm
28
215 lbs
6 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
Decent elbows
Cardio machine

Decent wrestler
Excellent boxer
Granite chin

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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 3 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Jay Copeland!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Los Angeles, Chuck Bauer!
The judges for this bout are Alec Ball, Ian Loll and Robert Douchet.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Copeland blocks a jab.
A looping hook to the body misses from Bauer. Copeland does a little dance to reset his feet.
Nice sprawl there from Bauer as Copeland shoots in.
Bauer misses with a double jab.
Bauer takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Copeland closes the distance and clinches up with Bauer, looking for a takedown. Copeland pushes Bauer against the cage but Bauer circles to the side and manages to break the clinch.
Copeland slips a jab and a cross from Bauer.
Bauer tries to bum rush Copeland with a series of wild strikes but Copeland uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Bauer lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Copeland circles away quickly and effectively.
Copeland bobs and weaves well there to avoid the strikes.
Copeland slips under a jab from Bauer.

Copeland shoots in for a takedown and gets it. Oh and he's advanced to full mount straight away.
Copeland in mount throwing good strikes here, bouncing his opponent's head off the canvas.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Copeland looking to finish with strikes here!
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Copeland raining down shots from the mount!
Bauer is bucking up trying to escape but Copeland cracks him with another couple of good strikes.

It looks like Chuck Bauer has been cut.

Bauer has left one of his arms exposed and Copeland doesn't need a second invitation. He's isolated it and locked on a tight armbar. Bauer screams and taps out, obviously in a lot of pain. Hopefully there isn't permanent damage to that arm.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:53 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Armbar). Jay Copeland!
Jay Copeland bigged himself up after the win. The crowd seemed to love it.