PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Wolf West (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and John Wain (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Wain comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Bring the Noise kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! On his way into the cage it seems that Wolf West has been attacked by a crazed fan! It looks like it might have been the just bleed guy! Luckily Wolf West seems to be OK! I thought that lunatic was in prison!?

West
vs
Wain

180 cm
27
215 lbs
7 - 2 - 0

196 cm
28
204 lbs
9 - 5 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Solid boxing
Very quick

Good takedowns
Counter fighter
Solid chin

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 7 - 2 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Wolf West!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 9 - 5 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, John Wain!
The judges for this bout are Winston Howard, Eliza Hachem and John Mangel.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
West scores with the left hand. Wain knows he should have avoided that one.
Wain throws a hook to the side of West's head but West sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
West looks to land a left hand but Wain moved out of range nicely.

The fight moves into the clinch position.
Nice body punch from West.
Wain is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but West is keeping busy.
West misses with some punches.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for West.
Wain taking a breather.
West misses with a short punch on the inside.
A short left from West.

That's one minute gone in the round.
West throws a head punch that misses.
West misses with a punch on the inside.
West lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Wain backwards.
West softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for West.
Wain tries to pull guard but West holds him up against the cage and eventually Wain drops back down to his feet.
Wain is trying to work out of this bad position, with his back against the cage.
Wain blocks a punch to the side of the head.
West misses with the head strike.
Wain fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Wain has dropped down and is looking to force the takedown but it's defended by West after a bit of a struggle.
West tries to throw a body punch but Wain avoids it by throwing West back against the cage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Wain looks like he'd prefer to be striking at range right now.
West is trying to break the clinch but Wain has him pressed against the cage.
West tries to work over Wain's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Wain looking to slow down the pace here.
West misses with the head strike.
Wain is looking to control West's arms but West gets an underhook and turns him. Now Wain has his back to the cage.
West leaning against his opponent.
West throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Wain is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but West is keeping busy.

West breaks from the clinch.

That's three minutes gone in the round.

Wain scores a trip takedown into side control. Nice.
West is breathing heavily.
We've had a lack of effective grappling in the last minute or so, which could well see a referee standup.

Wain has hold of West's arm. He's looking for a kimura. West seems comfortable defending it but Wain has shifted his position slighty and is cranking on the arm! West is real pain and he's forced to tap out! West is disgusted with himself for not defending it better but Wain couldn't care less - he's delighted!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:12 of round 1, we have a winner by way of Submission (Kimura). John Wain!
Post fight, John Wain took to the microphone: 'I like boobs'.