PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Grisha Kamenow (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Mason Taylor (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Kamenow comes to the cage accompanied by Linkin Park - Bleed It Out. The crowd seem to be enjoying Taylor's choice of entrance music: Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe. Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Kamenow
vs
Taylor

189 cm
20
205 lbs
1 - 2 - 0

185 cm
26
220 lbs
7 - 8 - 0

BJJ Purple Belt
Good kicks
KO power

Olympic wrestler
World class boxer
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 1 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Grisha Kamenow!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 7 - 8 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Mason Taylor!
The judges for this bout are Skip Squint, Summer Carpenter and John Mangel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Taylor avoids the clinch attempt nicely.
Grisha Kamenow seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.

Taylor drives through with a takedown into guard.
Taylor postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Kamenow keeping full guard, as Taylor tries to pass.
Taylor in full guard, throwing the ground and pound. No damage this time.
Taylor scoring with some ground and pound.
Taylor postures up and scores with a shot to the body and a follow up elbow to the head.
Kamenow is looking to stand up but Taylor isn't so interested in that idea.
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!
Taylor looking to control the position here, rather than advance.
Kamenow managing to control the position.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Kamenow wants to control the position but Taylor says "no thanks buddy" and passes to half guard.
Taylor uses his free foot to push down on Kamenow's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Kamenow.
Taylor cracks Kamenow with a nasty head shot there - the crowd let out an audible gasp there, as the noise reverberated around the arena.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Taylor raining down hammerfists from mount.

Kamenow is rocked!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Taylor postures up and throws a massive shot that knocks Kamenow out cold! Two more strikes to his unconscious opponent for good luck and this one is all over! Taylor goes absolutely crazy with his corner! Wow, you can see how much that win means to him!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:21 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Strikes). Mason Taylor!
Mason Taylor decided to hype himself up post fight. It was going well but he went on about it a bit too long and the crowd turned on him a little.