PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Bear Butcher (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ricky Fontaine (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Butcher kept the crowd waiting but all that was forgotten when his ring entrance music started. The incomparable musical genius that is Murder Of MAnkind by BIOHAZARD. Fontaine has chosen P.S. Phuk You Too as his entrance music, which hasn't gone down very well with the crowd. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Butcher
vs
Fontaine

200 cm
24
280 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

196 cm
19
270 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ White Belt
Excellent boxer
Very quick

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Experienced

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Bear Butcher!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Hilo, Ricky Fontaine!
The judges for this bout are Jeff Smith, Colin Fray and Paul Gruel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Butcher throws a hook to the side of Fontaine's head but Fontaine sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
Butcher throws a jab but it's blocked by Fontaine.
Butcher punishes Fontaine's body with a nice straight punch.
Butcher lands a nice shot to the body.
Fontaine misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.

Fontaine shoots in and gets a takedown into half guard. Fontaine showed some decent athleticism there.
Fontaine prevents Butcher from improving his position.
Ground and pound from Fontaine.
Fontaine looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Butcher with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Butcher taking some punishment here, with Fontaine in his half guard.
Butcher on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Butcher tries to get out of the position.
Butcher has hold of Fontaine's hands but Fontaine slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Butcher is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Fontaine scores with a couple of nice shots.
Fontaine working over Butcher with some ground and pound. Butcher looks like he wants out of this position, which is understandable.

Butcher actively working from the bottom here.
Butcher has hold of Fontaine's hands but Fontaine slips his arm to the side and lands an elbow.
Fontaine is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Butcher taking some punishment here, with Fontaine in his half guard.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Butcher taking some punishment here, with Fontaine in his half guard.

Butcher looking for submissions off his back.
Fontaine is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
Fontaine slips a nice elbow through Butcher's hands, connecting with Butcher's forehead.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Fontaine lands a nice short elbow.
Fontaine scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
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!
Fontaine looks towards his corner to check for any instructions. The corner give him nothing to work with, so he cracks Butcher with a short hammerfist. I guess that's as good as any advice he could get in this position.
Butcher trying to hold on to Fontaine's head to control him but Fontaine postures up.
Nice strikes from Fontaine there.
Fontaine is scoring with some nice ground and pound from the dominant position.
The referee walks around the fighters to get a better view of the action. Fontaine lands a nice short elbow.
The fighters are starting to get a bit slippery now, which will make submissions a bit more difficult.
Fontaine lands strikes from half guard.

Butcher is rocked!
The fighters are trapped in the ropes so we're going to have a reposition here. The ref calls for a break and repositions the fighters in the center of the ring.
Fontaine is sitting in half guard. He's postured up and lands a nice elbow. Oh, Butcher is hurt! He's hurt bad - Fontaine fires away with more strikes and the referee jumps in to save Butcher from any more punishment! Congratulations to Fontaine! Great finish!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:56 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Ricky Fontaine!
Ricky Fontaine decided to go for the less than humble approach in his post fight interview, telling everyone how he is going to conquer the world. The crowd seemed to like it when really that sort of approach could have gone either way.