PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a light heavyweight MMA rules bout between Mike Tirado (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Charles David Leddill (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Mike Tirado has the edge in experience - let's see if he can make that count tonight.

Tirado
vs
David Leddill

188 cm
20
218 lbs
3 - 1 - 0

188 cm
25
219 lbs
2 - 0 - 0

BJJ Blue Belt
Excellent boxer
Cardio machine

BJJ Blue Belt
Decent boxing
Intelligent

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 3 - 1 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Mike Tirado!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Sydney, Charles David Leddill!
The judges for this bout are Steve Erwin, Ben Hemmingworth and Bruno Hogan.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Leddill is pinned up against the cage taking some big shots here. The referee is looking closely deciding whether he should stop the fight.

It looks like Charles David Leddill has been cut.
Tirado tries to clinch up against the cage, rushing in to close the distance. Leddill manages to break the clinch and circles back to the middle of the mat.
Leddill lands the left hand.
Tirado lands a jab.
Tirado fails in his attempt to clinch.
Leddill scores with a nice strike.

Tirado gets a clinch.
I was talking to Tirado's coach per-fight and he was telling me that they'd been working on the clinch in the runup to this fight.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Leddill misses with a hook to the ribs.
Tirado lands with a right to the head.

Tirado breaks from the clinch.
Tirado fails with an attempt to clinch.
Leddill swings wildly with a right hand that was never going to find it's target.
Tirado misses with a head kick.

Tirado rushes Leddill and pushes him back against the cage in a clinch.
Leddill tries to circle away but Tirado has him pinned against the cage.

Tirado manages to break the clinch.
Tirado tries to clinch up.
Tirado wants to clinch up but Leddill keeps it at a distance.
Tirado tries to clinch but is not successful on this occasion.
Tirado slips under a jab from Leddill.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Tirado gets in close and instigates a clinch.

Tirado's corner calls for him to break the clinch, which he does.
Tirado scores with a jab.

Leddill instigates a clinch.
Leddill misses with the head strike.
Leddill swings wildly with an uppercut but Tirado uses good head movement to avoid it.
Tirado is trying to slow down the pace of the fight but Leddill is keeping busy.
With the two fighters working up against the cage, Tirado just misses with a elbow thrown towards Leddill's brow.
Tirado throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Leddill misses with a shot to the kidneys.

Tirado pushes off and circles away, back to the middle of the mat.
Tirado tries to close the distance and clinch but Leddill swats him to one side with an open hand palm strike and circles away.
Mike Tirado seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Leddill scores with the left hand. Tirado knows he should have avoided that one.
Leddill with a hook.
Tirado tries to bum rush Leddill with a series of wild strikes but Leddill uses good footwork to avoid the assault.
Leddill misses with a right hand
and Tirado counters with a lovely shot to the body.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Leddill throws a series of punches but Tirado avoids them all with ease.

Tirado takes the fight into the clinch.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Tirado missing with knees to the body.
Tirado working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Tirado misses with an elbow over the top.
Leddill throws a punch but it's blocked by Tirado.
Leddill working aggressively here.
Leddill throws a blind hook that connects with the side of Tirados head.

Tirado breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Tirado digs a good body shot into Leddill's ribs.
Tirado uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Leddill.
Tirado is looking to take this fight into the clinch.
Tirado on the wrong end of a nice hook.
Leddill thows a left - swing and a miss!

Tirado moves into the clinch.
A short right from Tirado.
Tirado doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Tirado tries a body shot but Leddill blocks it.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Leddill blocks the elbow strike.
Leddill misses with a short punch on the inside.
Leddill swings wildly with an uppercut but Tirado uses good head movement to avoid it.
Leddill has a couple of punches blocked by Tirado.

Tirado escapes the clinch and we're back to striking.

Tirado drives through and clinches with Leddill against the cage.
Leddill lands on the inside with an uppercut.
Leddill dodges an elbow strike from Tirado.
Leddill tries to break the clinch but Tirado is controlling the position.
Leddill blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Leddill tries to stall but Tirado uses the opportunity to gain a better position.
Tirado lands a left hand.
Good anti-grappling being displayed by Tirado as Leddill tries to tie him up.
Leddill is clearly stalling here... Pick up the pace son.
Leddill tries to break the clinch but Tirado is controlling the position.
Leddill is trying to stall.

That's four minutes gone in the round.

Tirado breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Tirado wants to clinch up but Leddill keeps it at a distance.
The fight stays on the outside here - Tirado looks like he's thinking about clinching though.
Tirado tries to clinch but Leddill is having none of it.

Tirado gets in close and instigates a clinch.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!

Tirado manages to break the clinch.
Tirado throws a head kick that Leddill semi-blocks.

Leddill is rocked!
Leddill lands a slapping body shot.
Leddill is still on wobbly legs! Can Tirado finish him?
Leddill gets hit by the mother of all head kicks and drops to the canvas in a crumpled heap! Woooow, the Internet is going to be talking about this one for weeks!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 4:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of KO (Head Kick). Mike Tirado!
A victorious Mike Tirado thanked his army of followers in his post fight interview, telling people to make sure they follow him on Twitter.