PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Can Tomatoes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Zerz (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Zerz comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Anticosmic overload kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.

Tomatoes
vs
Zerz

188 cm
22
215 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

198 cm
20
200 lbs
1 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Brawler
Cuts easily

BJJ Blue Belt
Counter striker
Solid chin

Team S.W.A.T.

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 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Can Tomatoes!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 1 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, John Zerz!
The judges for this bout are Steve Smith, Yves DeLean and Dillan Fox.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
A lazy left from Tomatoes finds it's target.
A jab-cross combination lands for Tomatoes and sends Zerz crashing to the mat! Tomatoes follows him down to the mat - Zerz regains half guard but he's not out of trouble yet!

Zerz is rocked!

It looks like John Zerz has been cut.
Tomatoes is thwarting Zerz's attempts to control the position.
Zerz is still in real trouble! Can Tomatoes finish him?
Zerz on the receiving end of some nice ground and pound.
Zerz seems to have recovered his senses.
Tomatoes scores with a couple of good hammerfists.
Zerz wants to get back to full guard.
Zerz moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Tomatoes trying to control the position from guard on top but Zerz is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Tomatoes throwing strikes from guard but Zerz blocks nicely.
Tomatoes working in close now, lands a nice elbow to the side of Zerz's head.
Zerz avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Zerz controls Tomatoes momentarily but Tomatoes frees himself.
Zerz striking from his own guard.
Zerz utilising some decent striking defenses from the guard, preventing the ground and pound.

Zerz uses the cage to get back to his feet.
Tomatoes misses with a jab and misses with a cross straight after too.
Tomatoes throws a series of punches but Zerz avoids them all with ease.
Zerz throws a shot from downtown. Tomatoes moves away and avoids it.
Zerz avoids a punch combination nicely.
Nice sprawl there from Tomatoes as Zerz shoots in.
Zerz misses with a head kick.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Neither fighter has done anything of merit for a good minute or two here and the crowd are not happy about it.
Tomatoes connects with a lovely jab that went straight through the gap between Zerz's hands.
Tomatoes fails with a takedown attempt.
Tomatoes avoids the head kick by Zerz.
Zerz keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Zerz misses with a wild combination.
Tomatoes fails to land with a series of punches.
Tomatoes throws a nice looking combination but Zerz bobs and weaves to avoid any damage.
Zerz avoids a punch combination nicely.
Tomatoes throws a combination but comes up with nothing but fresh air.
Tomatoes is breathing heavily.
Zerz keeps the fight standing with a nice sprawl.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Zerz is on the wrong end of a nice combination from Tomatoes.
Tomatoes blocks a head kick by Zerz.
Tomatoes misses with a combination
and Zerz counters with a nice uppercut.
A punch lands to the side of Tomatoes 's head but he takes it in his stride.
Tomatoes throws a left and a right that both miss
and Zerz counters with a series of strikes. Tomatoes will be more careful next time no doubt.

Tomatoes is rocked!
Zerz fakes the body blow, causing Tomatoes to drop his hands! Left hook to the temple! Tomatoes goes stiff, and falls face first into the mat. Goodnight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Punch). John Zerz!