PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a heavyweight MMA rules bout between Hagen Germanicus (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jason Hannibal (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Germanicus comes to the cage accompanied by Now We Are Free. There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Germanicus
vs
Hannibal

195 cm
34
274 lbs
20 - 4 - 0

195 cm
24
275 lbs
11 - 6 - 0

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Brown Belt
Excellent MT
Heavy handed

Syndicate Nutrition
Brute

Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 5 rounds, for the heavyweight championship of the world!
Introducing the champion to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 20 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Hagen Germanicus!
And introducing the challenger to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 11 - 6 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Jason Hannibal!
The judges for this bout are Summer Carpenter, Steve Erwin and Damien Edna.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Germanicus scores with a nice takedown into half guard. Let's see what he's got on the ground.
Germanicus landing with strikes to the body and head, softening up his opponent.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Hannibal wants to control but Germanicus is keeping busy.
Hannibal is trying is best to control the position here.
Hannibal keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Germanicus throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Ground and pound from Germanicus.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Germanicus is pressing down on Hannibal's thigh, looking to free his foot. Hannibal is holding on for now.
Germanicus drops an elbow to the side of Hannibal's head.
Germanicus thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Hannibal's head.
Hannibal is trying to get back to full guard.
Germanicus thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Hannibal's head.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Germanicus drops an elbow to the side of Hannibal's head.
Germanicus throwing shots but they're hitting the canvas more than the man.
Germanicus missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Hannibal trying to control from the bottom.
Hannibal avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Germanicus.

Hannibal looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
Hannibal tries to kick Germanicus off but Germanicus keeps his base steady and stays in half guard.
Hannibal keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Germanicus missing with some ground and pound from the half guard.
Hannibal trying to hold on to Germanicus's head to control him but Germanicus postures up.
Hannibal is looking to improve his position.
Hannibal is positioning himself well to prevent Germanicus advancing to mount.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Hannibal keeping his head moving to avoid the ground and pound.
Hannibal is trying to defend against the ground and pound but Germanicus scores with a couple of nice shots.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Germanicus trying to control from half guard but Hannibal is working away.
Nice strikes from Germanicus there.
Hannibal avoiding damage under a succession of punches from Germanicus.
Germanicus is trying to control the action in half guard but Hannibal is working away on the bottom, looking perhaps to get back to full guard.
Hannibal is looking to escape.
Germanicus prevents Hannibal from improving his position.
Germanicus looks to land a strike but Hannibal avoids it nicely and regains full guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Hannibal looking to sweep here. No luck so far.
Germanicus postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Germanicus throws a big right hand that misses.
Germanicus stands up and looks to throw the legs aside to pass to side control. Hannibal swivels though and keeps the full guard.
Germanicus postures up in Hannibal's guard and throws a big left but Hannibal blocks it.
Hannibal wants to stand and escape but Germanicus is having none of it.
Hannibal wants to sweep here but Germanicus controlling him for the moment.
Germanicus postures up.
Germanicus working some strikes from top position.
Germanicus stopping the sweep attempt from Hannibal.
Germanicus wants to control from the top but Hannibal keeps moving.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Germanicus looking to pass the guard.
Hannibal has control of Germanicus's left arm, preventing Germanicus from doing any damage.
We've seen a great period of action over the last minute or so - credit to both fighters for going all out!
Hannibal preventing the ground and pound from doing any damage.

Hannibal working for a triangle but Germanicus defends it easily.
Germanicus lands a couple of elbows.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Hannibal keeping moving, preventing Germanicus from controlling successfully.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Hagen Germanicus 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.

Germanicus wants to slow Hannibal down by chopping away at his legs.
Germanicus scores with a jab to the jaw of his opponent.

It looks like Jason Hannibal has been cut.
Hannibal lands a head kick!

It looks like Hagen Germanicus has been cut.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
The crowd cheers as Hannibal lands an impressive looking overhand right. Germanicus doesn't seem phased though.
Germanicus is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Hannibal blocks a low kick nicely.
Jason Hannibal is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Hannibal checks a leg kick.
Hannibal throws a left and a right that both miss

and Germanicus counters with a right hand that sends Hannibal tumbling to the canvas! Can Germanicus finish him? He dives into Hannibal's guard looking to do just that!

Hannibal is rocked!
Germanicus gets to his feet and stands over Hannibal, holding his ankles. He dives in with a big left hand that connects! Hannibal felt that one! Germanicus unloads more punches and elbows and this one is over! The ref has dived in to save Hannibal from any more punishment!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:56 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Hagen Germanicus!
Hagen Germanicus retains his heavyweight title!
Hagen Germanicus made sure to give a little speech post fight, saying 'We wait here for you, Maximus. Strength and Honor! And while we wait, we will shop like real barbarians at Syndicate Nutrition...'.