PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Mantis Toboggan (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Jesper Rush (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Toboggan's ring entrance music is that housewives' favourite, Reaching Out. Rush comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Tom Sawyer - Rush kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! Man, I cannot wait for this one!

Toboggan
vs
Rush

190 cm
28
198 lbs
14 - 7 - 0

187 cm
39
188 lbs
31 - 18 - 1

Good wrestling
Excellent boxer
Very quick

Good wrestler
Excellent MT
Determined

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 14 - 7 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Mantis Toboggan!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 31 - 18 - 1, fighting out of Montreal, Jesper Rush!
The judges for this bout are Trevor Gratis, Steve Smith and Alec Ball.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!

Toboggan moves into the clinch successfully.
Toboggan working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
Rush keeps control of Toboggan as he tries to wriggle out of the double underhooks.
Rush blocks an uppercut.
Toboggan makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Rush blocks an uppercut.
Rush is looking for a takedown.
Rush looking for a takedown.
Rush has a couple of punches blocked by Toboggan.
Toboggan is defending well against a takedown attempt.
Mantis Toboggan has stuffed three takedown attempts in the round now. That's going to take a lot out of Jesper Rush.
Toboggan controlling the action here for a moment.
Rush tries to land a knee to the body but he is off balance and Toboggan avoids it.

Toboggan escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.
Toboggan dips to his left and cracks Rush with an uppercut!
A nice leg kick lands there from Toboggan.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Decent striking displayed by Toboggan there.

Rush is rocked!

That's one minute gone in the round.
Toboggan throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
Rush gets caught by a big overhand right and goes down! Toboggan gets on top of him and starts throwing some serious punches until the ref intervenes and stops the fight!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:12 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Mantis Toboggan!
Mantis Toboggan very nearly forgot to thank CEC Nutrition Q160 amongst all the excitement of his win but just as the interview came to a close, he screamed their name. Hopefully he'll get a few nice freebies in the mail as a thank you.