PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Quiet Monkey (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Nik Reeder (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Monkey's entrance music is Epic - Faith No More. A fine choice. Reeder has chosen The End Of Heartache as his entrance music. Quiet Monkey has a significant reach advantage - let's see if he can make it count.

Monkey
vs
Reeder

199 cm
27
199 lbs
6 - 4 - 0

180 cm
26
185 lbs
6 - 0 - 0

BJJ Brown Belt
Basic striking
Cardio machine

Good takedowns
Brawler
Intelligent

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 6 - 4 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Quiet Monkey!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 6 - 0 - 0, fighting out of Montreal, Nik Reeder!
The judges for this bout are William Peck, Robert Douchet and Alec Ball.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Reeder shoots and misses
and Monkey counters with a straight right hand.
Reeder looks really tired already! That doesn't bode well for a good, competitive fight!
Monkey lets the fists fly and connects with a left straight followed by a right hook.
Reeder misses with a takedown attempt

and Monkey counters with a nice double leg into guard.
The fighters are pressed up against the cage, both looking to find a bit of space to work.
The referee is pacing around the two fighters - he looks like he's thinking about a standup.
Monkey controls the pace of the fight for a moment.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Monkey passes easily into side control. Nice work.
Check out the look on Monkey's face as he threw that strike - that's one determined fighter!
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Monkey has knee on belly and now moves to full mount! Trouble for Reeder!
Monkey lands a nice shot to the head.

Monkey is working on an americana here. Ooh, that looks pretty nasty! Nope, Reeder has managed to escape the submission attempt.
Monkey controlling the pace for now.
Monkey has been talking about how he's improved his wrestling in the run up to the fight so let's see if that's enough to sway the balance.
Monkey with a couple of short strikes.
Monkey looking to control but Reeder is working nicely, looking to advance position himself.
Monkey controlling from mount.
Monkey lands a nice shot to the head.

That's one minute gone in the round.

Monkey has hold of Reeder's left arm, perhaps looking for a submission. The two fighters tussle over control of the isolated limb and Reeder manages to get his arm back to his side and away from danger.
Monkey will need to keep those long limbs tucked in whilst he's on the ground, to prevent any submissions.
Monkey controlling from the full mount.
Monkey drops a big elbow. That's hurt Reeder! More shots from Monkey and the ref steps in! The fight is over!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 1:39 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Quiet Monkey!
An out of breath Quiet Monkey thanked his loyal fans in his post fight interview, giving them credit for his success over the course of his career.