PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Head Sparring Coach (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Paul Harris (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Harris is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Flower lady- jerky boys. Head Sparring Coach had a look across the cage there at his opponent. He definitely means business

Sparring Coach
vs
Harris

168 cm
29
158 lbs
19 - 12 - 0

185 cm
29
170 lbs
12 - 4 - 0

Good wrestling
World class boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Purple Belt
Basic striking
Solid chin

Cold Blooded Kemists ↑ 5x160Q

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 19 - 12 - 0, fighting out of London, Head Sparring Coach!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 12 - 4 - 0, fighting out of London, Paul Harris!
The judges for this bout are Donald Grub, Sam Margolis and James Glass.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Harris misses with a hook. Sparring Coach ducked under it nicely.
Harris misses with the combination.
Sparring Coach misses with a low kick as Harris jumps back.
Harris ducks down and throws a hook to the body but Sparring Coach moves away.
Sparring Coach throws a right high kick that is partially blocked by Harris.
Harris misses with a body punch
and Sparring Coach counters with an outside leg kick.
Sparring Coach thows a body kick. Harris tries to catch it but that hurt him.
Harris throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Sparring Coach uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Harris.
Sparring Coach pushes Harris away with a front kick.
Sparring Coach explodes with a nice body kick and back out of range. Nice work.
Harris misses with an uppercut
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice low kick that buckles Harris's knee momentarily.
Harris throws a series of punches but Sparring Coach moves out of range.
Harris throws a right and a left that both miss.
Sparring Coach fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Harris has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Sparring Coach is looking to slow Harris down with leg kicks.
Sparring Coach looks to land a body kick but Harris moved away.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Sparring Coach scores with a nice body kick.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Harris throws a shot from downtown. Sparring Coach moves away and avoids it.
Harris throws a right hand that misses
and Sparring Coach makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
Sparring Coach moves out of range of the body kick from Harris.
Sparring Coach moves away from the strike by Harris.
Sparring Coach moves out of range as Harris strikes.
Harris looks to land a right hand but Sparring Coach moved out of range.
Harris misses with a double jab
and Sparring Coach counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Harris misses with a double jab.
Harris lands a kick to the ribs of his opponent. Nice work there - in and out in a flash.
Sloppy strikes from Harris. Those never looked like landing.
Paul Harris seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Sparring Coach with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Sparring Coach cracks the inside of Harris's front leg.
Some wild striking there from Harris.
Harris's leg has a nasty welt from taking a succession of leg kicks. That must be slowing him down.
Harris throws a leg kick that misses.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Harris lands with a straight right. Sparring Coach didn't see that one coming.
Harris swings widly with a right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with a solid body kick.
Harris throws an off balance right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Harris throws a head kick that misses.
A shot to the body from Harris misses
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice body kick.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Sparring Coach keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Sparring Coach checks a leg kick.
Sparring Coach lands a nice looking body shot.
Harris throws a right hand that misses
and Sparring Coach finishes the little exchange by landing a big kick to the body.
Sparring Coach feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Harris's calf.
Harris takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Harris looks to score with a combo but nothing lands.
Harris misses with a right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with an inside leg kick.
Harris misses with a combination
and Sparring Coach counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Harris looks to throw a body kick
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Harris misses with a body shot.
Harris misses with a left hand
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.
Harris misses with a left hand
enabling Sparring Coach to counter with a crisp jab.
Harris throws a leg kick
and Sparring Coach counters with a good low kick that Harris was not able to check.
Harris throws a leg kick
and Sparring Coach counters with a thumping low kick.
Harris misses with a hook to the body
and Sparring Coach makes the exchange count by landing a cracking kick to the body. Harris really felt that one!
Harris looks winded!
Harris misses with a left hand
and Sparring Coach counters with a crisp hook to the side of the head.
Sparring Coach cracks Harris with a nice right hand that draws applause from the crowd.
Sparring Coach throws a sloppy head kick and Harris moves out of range easily.
Harris fails to land with the punch combination there - jab, cross, hook, miss, miss, miss.
Harris fakes with the hands and throws a leg kick but Sparring Coach is out of range.
A telegraphed right hand from Harris misses the target.
Sparring Coach keeping a good distance there, avoiding the body shot.
Harris throws an off balance right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with an inside leg kick.
Harris swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice leg kick.
Sparring Coach throws a nice outside leg kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Harris misses with a body shot. Nice footwork from Sparring Coach.
A solid leg kick lands there for Sparring Coach.
Sparring Coach is looking to slow Harris down with leg kicks.
Sparring Coach stuns Harris with a nice body shot, before stepping back out of range.
Harris misses the shot to the body.
A solid leg kick lands there for Sparring Coach.
Sparring Coach looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
A punch combination from Harris misses.
Nice defenses there by Sparring Coach.
Harris misses with a lunging right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice leg kick.
Harris throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Sparring Coach counters with an inside leg kick.
Harris throws an off balance right hand
and Sparring Coach cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Sparring Coach lands with a thumping leg kick.
A leg kick checked by Sparring Coach.
Sparring Coach lands with a good body shot.
Harris throws a right hand that Sparring Coach ducks under and follows up with a left that Sparring Coach also avoids with ease.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Head Sparring Coach dominated that round.
The fighters' corners scream their final instructions, as the referee calls time. Here we go, back to the action!

Sparring Coach throws a body kick that misses.
Harris misses with a hook
and Sparring Coach counters with a body kick.
Harris throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Harris misses with a looping right.
Sparring Coach keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
Harris has developed a nice purple lump on his ribcage, as a result of some heavy body kicks from Sparring Coach.
Harris rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Sparring Coach counters with a body kick that stops Harris in his tracks momentarily.
Harris misses with a right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with a low kick, right behind Harris 's knee.
Harris takes a nice looking leg kick right on the meat of his thigh there.
Sparring Coach connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Paul Harris is looking to throw some combinations by the looks of things.
Sparring Coach lands a leg kick. The shin dug right into the meat of the thigh.
Harris lunges in with swinging rights and lefts but Sparring Coach circles away quickly and effectively.
Sparring Coach ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Harris thows a leg kick but Sparring Coach checks it
and Sparring Coach counters with a slapping leg kick.
Harris takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Harris stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Sparring Coach.
Harris misses with an uppercut
letting Sparring Coach counter with a right hand.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sparring Coach throws a body kick but he wasn't in range.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Harris swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Sparring Coach counters with an inside leg kick.
Harris tries to land a leg kick but Sparring Coach saw it coming and moves away.
Harris is breathing heavily.
Sparring Coach with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Harris misses with an uppercut
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice leg kick.
Sparring Coach throws a nice inside leg kick.
Harris throws out a token jab with nothing on it.
Harris throws a leg kick that is checked
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice kick to the body.
Harris ducks right into an uppercut from Sparring Coach.
Harris throws a lazy uppercut
and Sparring Coach counters with a good low kick that Harris was not able to check.
Harris misses with a body shot.
Sparring Coach scores with a sloppy right hand. Harris should have avoided that one.
Sparring Coach slips under a jab.
Sparring Coach takes a punch to the jaw and another one to the bread basket.
Harris misses with a combination
and Sparring Coach counters with a head kick.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sparring Coach thuds a left hand into Harris's body.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
A chopping leg kick lands by Sparring Coach.
Harris throws a wild combination but nothing lands.
Harris throws a hook to the body but it doesn't connect.
Sparring Coach lands with an uppercut that bounces Harris off the cage and back into range.
Sparring Coach fakes a couple of low kicks, before throwing one on the third attempt. It connects and Harris has to reset his feet before getting ready to engage.
Harris misses with a hook
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.
Harris sees a low kick coming and goes to check it, but it's actually a body kick and it thuds into his unprotected ribs.
Sparring Coach fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Harris looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
A decent looking body kick lands there for Sparring Coach.
Sparring Coach pulls out of a head kick attempt.
Harris throws a lazy uppercut
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.
Harris throws a lazy uppercut
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice leg kick.
Sparring Coach digs a good hook to Harris's body.
Ouch! a nice leg kick from Sparring Coach, right into the meat.
Harris stumbles momentarily as he takes a strong leg kick from Sparring Coach.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Harris throws a low kick but his opponent is out of range.
Harris misses with a leg kick
and Sparring Coach counters with an inside leg kick.
Harris throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Sparring Coach counters with a stiff right hand.
Sparring Coach fakes the leg kick and cracks Harris in the body.
Like a baseball bat into the meat of his leg there - nice leg kick by Sparring Coach.
A slow jab from Harris misses its intended target.
Harris takes an uppercut right on the jaw but it doesn't phase him.
Harris takes a push kick to the midsection and stumbles backwards.
Harris misses with a hook
and Sparring Coach counters with a low kick, right behind Harris 's knee.
Decent striking displayed by Sparring Coach there.
Harris misses with a double jab.
Harris misses with a leg kick
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice low kick that buckles Harris's knee momentarily.
Head Sparring Coach is winning the standup battle so far.
Harris falls off balance throwing a combination
and Sparring Coach makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
The fighters are starting to get sweaty, which will make takedowns a bit more tricky.
Sparring Coach scores with a push kick.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Harris tries to clinch there but Sparring Coach circles away.
Sparring Coach scores with a spinning back kick!
Fantastic stuff here - a very entertaining period of action, which has drawn cheers from the crowd.
Harris misses with a hook
and Sparring Coach counters with a stiff right hand.
Sparring Coach with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Sparring Coach scores with a kick to the body.
Sparring Coach turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Sparring Coach connects with a leg kick. He turned his hip over nicely there.
Sparring Coach cracks a nice hook into Harris's ribs.
Sparring Coach throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Harris misses with a right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with a leg kick.
Sparring Coach lands a nice looking kick to the body. Harris takes a step back to recover.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Sparring Coach throws a sloppy head kick and Harris moves out of range easily.
Harris misses with a left hand
and Sparring Coach counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Harris throws out a leg kick but Sparring Coach moves out of range and Harris only half commits.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Head Sparring Coach dominated that second round.
The corners get their ten second warning. Both fighters stand from their stools and stare eachother down, ready to get back to the action. This is the final round!

Sparring Coach feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Harris's calf.
Harris throws a leg kick that is checked
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice low kick that buckles Harris's knee momentarily.
Harris misses with an uppercut
and Sparring Coach counters with a shot to the ribs. That looked like it hurt.
Harris misses with an uppercut
and Sparring Coach counters with a stiff right hand.
Sparring Coach looking to take his opponent's legs away with the low kicks.
Harris throws a combination that misses
and Sparring Coach finishes the little exchange by landing a big kick to the body.
Harris moving in and out of range nicely, whilst landing the scoring shot.
Sparring Coach avoids the body shot from Harris.
Harris on the receiving end of a decent leg kick there by Sparring Coach. Sparring Coach obviously looking to wear him down.
The fighters circling - Harris throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Harris throws a left and a right that both miss
enabling Sparring Coach to counter with a crisp jab.
Sparring Coach fakes with a right hand and throws a good leg kick, right into the thigh. That had to hurt Harris.
Harris takes a big intake of breath there - he's definitely tired.
Harris looks to throw a body kick
and Sparring Coach counters with a head kick. That will keep Harris thinking before he tries any more sloppy attacks!
Sparring Coach lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
The fans in attendance giving it up for the two fighters, who have really let it all hang out in the last minute or so!
Harris misses with the body kick
and Sparring Coach counters with a body kick that stops Harris in his tracks momentarily.
Harris walks forward, straight into a front kick from Sparring Coach.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sparring Coach lands with a kick to the temple. Harris shrugs as if to say "is that all you've got?"
Harris throws a lazy uppercut
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice kick to the body.
A slapping leg kick lands for Sparring Coach.
Harris fails to land with a series of punches.
Sparring Coach lands a nice leg kick that just misses Harris's sensitive parts.
Harris throws a push kick but Sparring Coach slaps the foot to one side.
Sparring Coach turns his hip over beautifully as he lands a nice leg kick.
Harris throws a leg kick
and Sparring Coach counters with an inside leg kick.
Harris rushes in with a sloppy looking punch
and Sparring Coach counters with a nice low kick that buckles Harris's knee momentarily.
A low kick from Harris misses
and Sparring Coach counters with an inside leg kick.
A slapping leg kick lands for Sparring Coach.
Harris moves in looking to clinch but Sparring Coach pushes him off.
Harris dives in and grabs Sparring Coach's left leg, looking for a takedown. Sparring Coach pushes down on Harris's head and hops out.
Sparring Coach scores with a hook to the body. Harris takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Sparring Coach scores with a spinning back kick!
Paul Harris has stepped it up - he knows he needs a finish here!
Head Sparring Coach is fighting for a decision here - he's started to take the cautious approach.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sparring Coach lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Sparring Coach lands with a nice low kick. That'll leave a bruise.
Harris swings widly with a right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with a good low kick that Harris was not able to check.
Harris misses with an uppercut
and Sparring Coach makes him pay by landing a thudding low kick.
Harris walks into a jab.
Harris tries to land a body kick
and he gets countered with a snapping leg kick.
Sparring Coach lets loose with a powerful body kick. Harris will feel that in the morning.
Sparring Coach keeps Harris at a distance using the push kick.
Harris swings wildly with a couple of big hooks
and Sparring Coach counters with a straight right hand.
Sparring Coach comes forward and lands a shot to the body, then darts back out of range.
Both these guys seem content to just stand up and trade with eachother but Harris might want to think about changing up his gameplan a bit because over the course of the fight, Sparring Coach has got the better of the exchanges.
Sparring Coach lands a high kick!
Sparring Coach with a nice looking leg kick. You could hear that one land in a back row.
Sparring Coach connects with a solid leg kick.
Sparring Coach throws a head kick that half lands.
Harris throws a jab, cross combination which is slipped
and Sparring Coach counters with a thumping low kick.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sparring Coach jabs at Harris's body.
Harris misses with a right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with an inside leg kick.
Harris on the wrong end of a vicious looking body shot.
Sparring Coach ducks down and throws a hook to the body.
Harris misses with a hook
and Sparring Coach counters with an inside leg kick.
Harris throws an ugly left hook that misses
and Sparring Coach cracks him with a counter punch right on the button.
Harris thows a leg kick but Sparring Coach checks it
and Sparring Coach counters with a good low kick that Harris was not able to check.
A low kick from Harris misses
and Sparring Coach counters with a leg kick that reverborates around the arena.
Harris gets cracked with a nice right hand there by Sparring Coach.

Sparring Coach closes the distance and presses his opponent up against the cage.
Harris fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Sparring Coach lands with a right to the head.
Harris fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Sparring Coach blocks a punch to the side of the head.

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Harris misses with a hook from the clinch.
Sparring Coach trying to land knees to the body.

Sparring Coach breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Harris misses with a right hand
and Sparring Coach makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Harris misses with a lunging right hand
and Sparring Coach counters with a lovely straight right hand!
Harris throws a left and a right that both miss
and Sparring Coach makes him pay by landing a nice hook to the body before moving out of range.
Sparring Coach lands a leg kick and bounces back out of range.
Sparring Coach scores with a hook to the body. Harris takes a step back and tries to catch his breath.
A solid leg kick lands there for Sparring Coach.
Harris throws a poor cross that misses
and Sparring Coach counters with a leg kick.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Sparring Coach throws a body kick that sends a sickening thudding noise reverberating around the arena.
Sparring Coach scores with a jab to the jaw.
Harris throws a lazy uppercut
and Sparring Coach counters with a flying knee. Nice.
Sparring Coach is really dominating this fight. Is there anything that Harris can do to turn this around?
That kick from Sparring Coach tenderised Harris's leg. Harris is trying to keep his angry face on.

And that's the end of the fight!
Head Sparring Coach showed his dominance in that final round.
Well Sparring Coach has outscored his opponent in every aspect of the fight today. Only a scarily incompetent judge or two will keep him from a well deserved win... Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3 rounds of action, we go to the scorecards for a decision.
Judge Donald Grub scores the fight 30:27
Judge Sam Margolis scores the fight 30:27
Judge James Glass scores the fight 30:27

In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Head Sparring Coach!
Head Sparring Coach seemed lost for words in his post fight interview but he remembered to thank his fans and directed everyone to his website.