PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Jesse Bashor (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Thiago Suzuki (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Suzuki comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Codename 47 kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Thiago Suzuki is the more experienced fighter, so let's see if that makes a difference tonight.

Bashor
vs
Suzuki

172 cm
21
202 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

186 cm
30
148 lbs
21 - 15 - 1

Great wrestler
Counter striker
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Good low kicks
Powerful

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 Sydney, Jesse Bashor!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 21 - 15 - 1, fighting out of Sydney, Thiago Suzuki!
The judges for this bout are Skip Squint, Summer Carpenter and Steve Erwin.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Bashor misses with a body shot.
Bashor takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Suzuki bobbing and weaving, closes the distance and lands a hook to the side of Bashor's head.
Bashor avoids a lazy jab quite easily.
Suzuki throws a body punch but Bashor moves out of range.
Bashor on the wrong end of a nice low kick. He's acting like it's no big deal but he doesn't want to take many more of those.
Suzuki lands a leg kick that knocks Bashor off balance momentarily.
Suzuki lands a nice hook to Bashor's body. Bashor takes it in his stride and looks to land his own strikes.
Suzuki feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Bashors jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!
Suzuki pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Suzuki scores with a head kick.
Suzuki is looking to score with low kicks.
Suzuki feints a straight left to the body, then turns around with a flashy move and hits Bashors jaw with a dramatic spinning back fist!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Suzuki misses with a body shot.
Suzuki connects with an inside leg kick.
Well, he's not going to score with shots like that. A lazy body kick attempt from Suzuki.
Bashor avoids a kick to the body.

Suzuki gets taken down but at least he's managed to land in guard.
Suzuki is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Bashor throws a strike but Suzuki rolls with it and manages to sweep. Now he's in guard on top.
Suzuki trying to control the position from guard on top but Bashor is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Bashor tries to land a sweep but no joy.
Bashor keeping full guard, as Suzuki tries to pass.
Bashor looking to hit a scissor sweep but Suzuki is one step ahead there.
Suzuki is looking to work some ground and pound but Bashor has wrist control.
Bashor keeping moving, preventing Suzuki from controlling successfully.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Bashor looking for submissions from the bottom here. Moving his hips around, possibly looking for an armbar.

Bashor is looking to sinch up a triangle. Suzuki throws the leg off to one side though and gets in tight to Bashor's body to avoid the submission. Bashor has instead reached around Suzuki's neck and now has a guillotine! Oh, this is biiiig trouble! Bashor arches his back and squeezes and forces the tap from his hapless opponent.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:31 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Guillotine). Jesse Bashor!
Jesse Bashor decided to thank the fans in attendance for making a great atmosphere. It seemed to go down pretty well.