PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Thomas Billington (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Andreas Reinhardt (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Billington comes to the cage accompanied by Apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur.... 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.

Billington
vs
Reinhardt

190 cm
30
187 lbs
22 - 12 - 2

193 cm
26
203 lbs
12 - 8 - 0

Great wrestler
World class boxer
Insanely flexible

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Good gas tank

Reaper Combatwear

CEC Nutrition Q160 & Loans
Ace of Spades Clothing

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 22 - 12 - 2, fighting out of Hilo, Thomas Billington!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 8 - 0, fighting out of New York, Andreas Reinhardt!
The judges for this bout are Paul Tew, Richard Clark and Steven Brown.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Billington rushes Reinhardt and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Billington misses with a punch to the body.
Billington lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Reinhardt backwards.
Billington wants a takedown but no success here.
Billington tries to work over Reinhardt's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.

Reinhardt breaks the clinch.
Reinhardt throws a body punch but Billington moves out of range.
Reinhardt tries to clinch up but Billington circles away and keeps his distance.
Reinhardt wants to clinch up but Billington keeps it at a distance.
Billington changes levels and scores with a jab to the body.
Reinhardt thows a body shot but no joy.
Reinhardt misses with a two punch combination.
Reinhardt swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Reinhardt avoids the body shot from Billington.
Billington lands a right hook to the body.

Reinhardt gets a clinch.
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
A right hook to the body lands for Billington.
Billington lands a nice uppercut.
Billington stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Billington leaning against his opponent.
A battle for position here, against the cage.
Reinhardt controlling the action here for a moment.
Reinhardt misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Reinhardt taking a breather.
Billington doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Reinhardt misses with a shot to the kidneys.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Billington creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Billington fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Reinhardt can't find room to land a body shot as Billington controls the action.
Reinhardt tries to work over Billington's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Reinhardt.
Billington working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.

Billington gets a trip takedown into half guard.
Billington sitting in half guard, looking to land shots. Reinhardt defending well though.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Billington controlling the action here.
Billington prevents Reinhardt from standing back up.
Billington content to sit in half guard and control for a moment.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Billington has controlled the position for a good 20 seconds, which will no doubt be starting to frustrate his opponent.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

The ref stands the fighters back up. Thomas Billington wasn't doing enough on the ground.
Nice defenses there by Reinhardt.
Billington misses with a body punch
and Reinhardt connects with a straight left hand counter down the middle.
Billington tries to work over Reinhardt's front leg with a kick but Reinhardt checks it.
Billington misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Reinhardt.
Reinhardt defends well against a solid takedown attempt from Billington.
Reinhardt thows a body shot but no joy.
Reinhardt tries to clinch up but Billington circles away and keeps his distance.
Billington misses the jab.
Sloppy strikes from Reinhardt. Those never looked like landing.
A swing and a miss from Reinhardt.
Billington throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Billington thows a left - swing and a miss!
Billington uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Reinhardt.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Reinhardt walks into a straight right hand from Billington.
Billington lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Billington scores with a big left there. The judges will like that one.
This has been an exciting period of action!

Billington fakes an overhand right and shoots for a takedown. Reinhardt sprawls well initially but Billington persists and gets the takedown into half guard.

Reinhardt is rocked!
Reinhardt is trying to stand.
Billington content to control rather than advance.
Reinhardt is trying to stand back up but Billington is controlling him
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Billington seems very keen to just sit and control from half guard but Reinhardt does not like that idea so much and is remaining active off his back.
Billington controlling the action here.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Thomas Billington dominated that round.
That's the end of the interval. I'm sure that seemed a lot quicker than a minute for our two fighters! Back to the action.

Billington keeping his hands up high there, blocking the jab from Reinhardt.
Billington slips a straight right by Reinhardt.
Billington lands with a shot to the body.
Billington lands with an overhand left.
Reinhardt tries to clinch up.
Thomas Billington is winning the standup battle so far.
Reinhardt with a nice cross.
The fighters circling - Reinhardt throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Billington takes a shot right to the liver - Bas would have been proud of that punch.
Reinhardt ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Billington cracks Reinhardt with a good jab.
Billington jabbing away but nothing is landing.
Billington cracks a nice hook into Reinhardt's ribs.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.

Oooooh!!! Billington has knocked Reinhardt down with a huge combo! Billington steps away and waves a wobbly Reinhardt back to his feet! This one might not go much longer!
Reinhardt is still on wobbly legs! Can Billington finish him?
Billington misses with a hook.
Billington steps to the side to avoid the strikes from Reinhardt.
Reinhardt swings for the body but Billington moves out of range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Billington throws a jab when Reinhardt was well out of range.
Billington connects with a body shot.
Billington throws an overhand right that drops Reinhardt like a sack of potatoes! Billington dives in to finish the fight with more strikes and this one is all over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:11 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Thomas Billington!
Post fight, Thomas Billington took to the microphone: 'Man I'm just happy to be here, got into a bit of a scuffle with that bum Latka Gravas on the plane ride over here and had to put a beatdown on him, the little bitch went crying to the cops so it's a good thing someone bailed me out before the fight. Ah well 2 fights and 2 wins in the same day!'.