PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Rossco Sweeney (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Duke Skywalker (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Over to our ring announcer for the fighter introductions!

Sweeney
vs
Skywalker

179 cm
18
165 lbs
0 - 0 - 0

166 cm
25
160 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Basic striking
Good chin

Good wrestler
Basic striking
Granite chin

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 3 rounds, in the lightweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 0 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Rossco Sweeney!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of London, Duke Skywalker!
The judges for this bout are James Glass, Daniel Bishop and Sam Margolis.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Skywalker misses with a body shot.
Rossco Sweeney seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
A combination from Sweeney does no damage.
A slow jab from Skywalker misses its intended target.
Sweeney ducks under a wild hook from Skywalker.
Sweeney uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Skywalker.
Sweeney lands a jab-cross combination.
Skywalker showing good head movement there, avoiding the strikes from Sweeney.
Sweeney lands a beauty of a right hand that gets the crowd cheering.
Sweeney fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Skywalker dodges the punch combination from Sweeney.
Skywalker slips a jab and a cross from Sweeney.

Skywalker has taken the fight to the clinch.

Skywalker turns his hips and lands a very nice judo throw into side control!
Skywalker lands a knee to the body and a forearm to the face.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Skywalker just content to control the position.
Sweeney knows he needs to get back to his feet asap. He's simply no match for Skywalker on the ground.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sweeney takes a nasty elbow to the side of the head.
Sweeney is trying to escape the position but Skywalker is controlling the position.
Skywalker grinds an elbow into Sweeney's temple.
Skywalker lands a knee to the body and follows it up with some ground and pound to the head. That will wear Sweeney down.
Sweeney is not in a great position here, taking some shots.

Skywalker is looking for a kimura. He might have it! No, Sweeney has escaped the position, nice work there.
Sweeney takes a couple of big shots there - the referee warns him that he has to defend himself better.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Skywalker scores with a couple of short elbows.
Skywalker scoring with punches from side control.
Sweeney is putting a lot of effort into getting back to his feet here.
Skywalker has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Skywalker staying calm.
Sweeney on his back here. We all know that wrestlers don't like being on their back so let's see if Sweeney tries to get out of the position.
Sweeney is breathing heavily.
Sweeney is not in a great position here, taking some shots.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sweeney takes an elbow right on the bridge of the nose and winces in pain.

Sweeney is rocked!
Skywalker cracks Sweeney with a big elbow. Oh, he's hurt! Skywalker immediately mounts and start dropping bombs! Sweeney is done! The referee jumps in and saves him from any more punishment - a quick and decisive finish by Skywalker!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:40 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Duke Skywalker!