PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Mathew Dean (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Francois Van Steyne (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Dean
vs
Van Steyne

187 cm
25
193 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

187 cm
20
186 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Good knees
Granite chin

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

SAVE A FIGHTER

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Mathew Dean!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Tokyo, Francois Van Steyne!
The judges for this bout are Sosuke Kotani, Hirohito Nitta and Kenichi Hosakawa.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Dean moves into the clinch.
Dean tries a knee to the head but Van Steyne blocks it.
Dean throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Van Steyne blocks it with crossed arms.
Van Steyne lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Van Steyne gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.
Dean tries to land a knee to the head but Van Steyne blocks with his arms.
Dean tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Dean using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Van Steyne has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Dean using the Thai plumb to throw knees but Van Steyne has his back arched nicely, preventing the strike.
Dean throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Van Steyne blocks it with crossed arms.
Dean throws a vicious knee straight up the middle but Van Steyne blocks it with crossed arms.
Dean misses with a knee strike.
Van Steyne lands a nice elbow.
Dean throws a knee to the head but misses.
Van Steyne gets an overhook and lands an elbow to the side of the head.

It looks like Mathew Dean has been cut.
Dean misses with a knee to the head.
Van Steyne is pushing Dean up against the cage, for a bit of lean and pray action. Action being used the in the loosest possible sense of the word.
Van Steyne digs a right hand into Dean's ribs. Those have got to be taking their toll on Dean's gas tank.
Dean is breathing heavily.
Van Steyne will no doubt start fighting again in a minute but for now he's just having a little rest, leaning Dean up against the cage.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Dean throws a knee to the head but misses.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Van Steyne creates a bit of space for himself and sneaks an elbow through Dean's defenses.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Van Steyne.
A bit of stalling here from Van Steyne.
Dean takes an elbow to the temple.
Nice elbow from Van Steyne.
Dean tries to land a knee to the head but misses.
Van Steyne lands a knee to the head.

Mathew Dean's cut is getting worse.
Van Steyne utilising his Muay Thai to score with a knee to the body.
Van Steyne lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Dean backwards.
Van Steyne scores a nice knee to the body.
Van Steyne lands a nice elbow.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Van Steyne lands with a light punch inside.

Dean is rocked!
Van Steyne leaning his opponent against the cage.
Oh Dean is still all over the place! His legs are completely gone! Will he be able to recover?!!
Van Steyne has Dean pressed against the cage. He pushes Dean back and as he springs towards him off the cage, Van Steyne throws a beautiful elbow that sends Dean crashing to the floor! Van Steyne piles on the pressure with more strikes! Dean is flailing away but he's not defending himself and the referee steps in to stop the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:58 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Francois Van Steyne!