PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Rocky Marciano (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Eddie Miller (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Marciano comes to the cage accompanied by Kid Charlemagne. Miller is bouncing up and down as he enters the arena, backed by Battle of Japan - Final Showdown. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Marciano
vs
Miller

194 cm
28
215 lbs
13 - 6 - 0

190 cm
32
225 lbs
22 - 9 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

BJJ Purple Belt
Good low kicks
Good gas tank

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 13 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Las Vegas, Rocky Marciano!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 22 - 9 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Eddie Miller!
The judges for this bout are Shirou Masuda, Yuuki Gou and Yasuomi Hirokawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Miller takes a body punch but keeps moving.
Marciano lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Eddie Miller seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Marciano missing with a left hand there. Miller was out of range so wasted energy throwing that one.
Miller takes a jab on the nose there. A little bit of blood seems to be coming out. Hopefully that won't affect his breathing.
Miller tries to check the leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Marciano paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Marciano misses with an uppercut. Miller saw that one coming.
Marciano throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Miller slips under a jab from Marciano.
Marciano scores to the head and body with a nice combination!
Marciano feints and then cracks Miller's leading leg with a nice low kick. He's obviously looking to slow Miller down.
Miller jabs away that one connects to the head of his opponent.
Marciano tries to score with an inside leg kick but telegraphs it and Miller is able to avoid easily.
Miller throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Miller uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Marciano.
Marciano wants to clinch up but Miller keeps it at a distance.

That's one minute gone in the round.
A looping hook to the body misses from Marciano. Miller does a little dance to reset his feet.
Miller keeps Marciano at a distance using the push kick.
Marciano lands a right hook to the body.
Miller throws a leg kick that misses.
Marciano throws a body punch but Miller moves out of range.
Miller slips under a jab from Marciano.
Miller looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Marciano pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Miller fails in his attempt to clinch.
Marciano scores with a sloppy right hand. Miller should have avoided that one.

Marciano has Miller up against the cage in a clinch.
Marciano prevents a body shot from Miller.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Marciano.
Miller fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Miller misses with a punch on the inside.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Miller tries to work over Marciano's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Marciano lands a nice knee to the body.
Marciano blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Marciano tries to land a knee to the head but Miller blocks with his arms.
Knees to the body from Marciano.
Miller blocks the elbow strike.
Marciano blocking some punches.
Miller tries to throw a body punch but Marciano avoids it by throwing Miller back against the cage.
Miller working aggressively here.
Marciano misses with an elbow strike.
Marciano with an attempt at a knee that misses.
Miller takes an elbow to the forehead.
Marciano connects with a nasty looking knee right to Miller's face.
Marciano lands with a left to the head.
Marciano lands an elbow inside.
Marciano blocks a body shot from Miller.
A nice glancing elbow lands by Marciano.

It looks like Eddie Miller has been cut.
Miller managing to block the knees to the body from Marciano.
Knees to the body from Marciano.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Nice elbow from Marciano.
Miller throws a head punch that misses.
Miller fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Marciano tries to land knees in the clinch but Miller avoids the damage to the body.
Marciano lands a nice knee to the body.
Miller looks gassed!
Marciano tries a knee to the head but Miller blocks it.
Marciano lands a nice elbow.
Marciano lands a damaging elbow.
Marciano tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Knees to the body from Marciano.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Marciano lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Marciano misses with an elbow over the top.
Marciano scores with a shot to the side of Miller's head.
Marciano misses with an elbow strike.
Marciano throws a knee to the head but misses.
Marciano misses with an elbow over the top.
Marciano lands a nice elbow from the clinch.
Marciano unloads a knee to the mid-section. Miller lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
Miller takes an elbow to the forehead.
Miller takes an elbow to the temple.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Marciano lands a glancing elbow in the clinch.
Miller tries a body shot but Marciano blocks it.
Miller takes a knee to the side of the body.
Marciano lands a nice elbow.
Marciano lands an elbow inside that Miller shrugs off.
Marciano lands a knee to the body.
Marciano lands an elbow inside that Miller shrugs off.
A short right from Marciano.
Knees to the body from Marciano.
Miller blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Marciano with the Thai clinch, lands a knee to the head.
Miller takes a knee to the side of the body.
Marciano landing knees to the body.
A short uppercut from Marciano.
Miller fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Marciano putting his Muay Thai to good use. He has Miller in a tight clinch and is doing some damage with knees to the body.
Marciano landing knees to the body.
Nice elbow from Marciano.

That's five minutes gone in the round.
Marciano unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Marciano gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Marciano landing knees to the body.
Marciano lands a knee to the head there! That was nasty!
Marciano creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Miller's defenses.
Miller misses with some punches.
Marciano cracks Miller with a nice body shot.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Miller takes a knee to the side of the body.
Marciano scores with a nice hook to the head.
Marciano lands an elbow just above Miller 's eye.

Miller is rocked!
Marciano lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Miller is still on wobbly legs! Can Marciano finish him?
Marciano lands an elbow that stopped Miller in his tracks for a moment.
Marciano lands an elbow inside that Miller shrugs off.
Miller is pressed against the cage. Marciano pushes back and unleashes a big elbow that really hurts Miller! Two more big strikes from Marciano and Miller crumples to the mat and taps out furiously due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 5:49 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Strikes). Rocky Marciano!
Rocky Marciano made sure to give a little speech post fight, saying '“With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.”'.