PBP Commentary

Coming up we have a middleweight MMA rules bout between Frank Sinatra (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Sepp Maier (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). Maier comes into a darkened arena with his song building. Apaga mas não bate kicks in, the lights come on and the crowd goes wild! What a showman! There are an array of beautiful celebrities at ringside tonight! I wonder if any of them paid for their tickets.

Sinatra
vs
Maier

182 cm
36
201 lbs
35 - 19 - 4

187 cm
35
192 lbs
39 - 27 - 1

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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 4 rounds, in the middleweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of 35 - 19 - 4, fighting out of Las Vegas, Frank Sinatra!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of 39 - 27 - 1, fighting out of London, Sepp Maier!
The judges for this bout are Frank Antenori, Timothy Bukovac and Jack Bonds.

The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Maier gets his takedown attempt stuffed easily

so Sinatra counters with a double leg into guard. Good agility.
The referee must be thinking about standing these guys back up.
Sinatra tries to free his leg and advance position but Maier is retaining full guard.

Maier had isolated an arm as going for a kimura. Sinatra defends it easily.

Maier looking for submissions off his back, moving his hips, looking for an opening.
Sinatra makes a bit of distance and scores with some ground and pound, still in guard.
Sinatra passes Maier's right leg, so he's now in half guard.
The crowd cheering loudly, showing their appreciation for the quality fight we're seeing here.
Maier is trying to get back to full guard.

Maier looking for submissions from an awkward position here.
The ref warns both fighters not to hold the cage as they work up against the meshing.
Sinatra uses his free foot to push down on Maier's thigh. Eventually he works his other foot free and he's advanced to mount - this is trouble for Maier.
Sinatra pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Sinatra breaks from Maier's wrist control and lands an elbow.
Sinatra 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.
Sinatra with the ground and pound from mount.
Sinatra is landing with some decent strikes but Maier is trying to advance his position so the referee is letting the fight continue.
Maier is squirming around, avoiding Sinatra's attempts to control the action.
Sinatra landing shots from mount.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Sinatra prevents Maier from getting the reversal.
Sinatra wants to control the pace but Maier is squirming around nicely.
Maier bucks up and manages to get a nice reversal! He's in guard on the top - nicely done!
Maier won't allow Sinatra to sweep him here.
Sinatra trying to control the position.
Maier stopping the sweep attempt from Sinatra.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Sinatra is trying to control the position from the bottom.
Sinatra is working the butterfly guard. He manages to land a nice scissor sweep and is now in half guard on the top. Nice move.

Maier looking to work for a kimura from the bottom.
Sinatra is trying to advance to mount but he's lost his balance and Maier reverses the position - he's now on top in Sinatra's guard.
Maier with a nice head shot there.
Maier postures up and lands some nice ground and pound.
Maier pushes down on Sinatra's leg and manages to get into half guard.
Sinatra moves his hips nicely and gets into full guard.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Maier postures up in Sinatra's guard and throws a big left but Sinatra blocks it.
Maier slips nicely into half guard.
Maier is looking to advance position but Sinatra won't allow it.
Maier throwing punches and elbows but they're not doing any damage.
Sinatra blocking the ground and pound attempt from Maier.

Maier is working for submissions here but there's nothing on.
In the pre-fight buildup videos we saw Maier working his ground and pound in the gym.

Maier seems to be looking for submissions.
Both fighters really going for it on the ground here!
Maier not throwing his punches with enough precision this time.
Sinatra wants to get back to full guard.

Maier is looking for a kimura but Sinatra is holding onto that half guard position, so it's hard for Maier to get the leverage.
Sinatra has been looking to land a fair amount of strikes on the ground. He might be looking to soften his opponent up in order to work for a submission.
Maier thumps the canvas. Not on purpose obviously - he just missed Sinatra's head.
Sinatra is looking to control Maier's leg but it's slowly edging free. Can Sinatra avoid being mounted?
Maier is looking to pass the guard... He's managed it - he's now in full mount!

That's four minutes gone in the round.
Sinatra is wriggling around trying to escape.
Sinatra sneaks a leg back under and regains half guard and is working straight away to try and get back to guard. He hasn't managed just yet though.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!

Maier is working for a kimura but Sinatra is defending it quite comfortably.
Maier prevents Sinatra from improving his position.
Maier passes the guard and advances to mount!

Maier working for a guillotine from mount but Sinatra is in no mood to give up.
The crowd are going absolutely nuts as the round comes to an end - what a fantastic round of action!
Sinatra sneaks a leg under to get to half guard.
And that’s the end of the round – the fighters go back to their corners.

Frank Sinatra 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.

Maier misses the jab.
Maier misses with a takedown attempt

and Sinatra counters with a driving takedown into guard. Nice work there by Sinatra.

Maier escapes his hips to the side and looks to be working for an armbar. Sinatra gives him a little smile and shakes his head. No chance.
Sinatra working from the guard for now, landing some ground and pound.
Sinatra keeps in close for a moment and lands a decent shot to the side of Maier's head.
Sinatra forces his way into half guard.
Sinatra frees up his trapped foot and advances to mount.
This is a great period of action - very entertaining stuff!
Maier throwing punches from his back but nothing is landing.
Maier is squirming around, avoiding Sinatra's attempts to control the action.
Sinatra pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.

That's one minute gone in the round.
Maier is desperately trying to improve his position but Sinatra has a good base and remains in mount.
Sinatra looking to control and managing it successfully.
Sinatra breaks from Maier's wrist control and lands an elbow.
BOOM! Sinatra connects with a massive shot to the dome!
Maier tries to get back to half guard but can't.
Frank Sinatra overall seems to be getting the better of the ground position in the fight so far.
Sinatra trying to control but he's not successful this time.
Maier is trying to escape but when you're mounted that's not too easy.
This has been an exciting period of action!
Sinatra wants to control the pace but Maier is squirming around nicely.
Sinatra pausing momentarily but resumes with a couple of decent strikes that do a bit of damage.

That's two minutes gone in the round.
Maier is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Maier is persisting with the attempt to improve his position.
Sinatra looking to control and managing it successfully.
Sinatra trying to control but Maier is having none of it.
Maier is desperately trying to get back to half guard.
Maier is in a horrible position here. Sinatra smacks him with another shot as he tries to escape the position.

That's three minutes gone in the round.
Sinatra raining down shots from the mount!
Sinatra with good strikes from the mount here!
Sinatra with good strikes from the mount here!

Maier is rocked!
Sinatra lands with some vicious ground and pound - can Maier hang on?
Maier is still in real trouble! Can Sinatra finish him?
Sinatra postures up and throws a couple of big shots that have Maier in real trouble here! The ref calls for Maier to improve his position which he doesn't do, so the referee has no choice but to end the fight due to the strikes!

Ladies and gentlemen, after 3:45 of round 2, we have a winner by way of TKO (Strikes). Frank Sinatra!
A very excited looking Frank Sinatra made sure he remembered to thank all the fans both in the arena and on the internet. He said all the coolest people spend all day on MMA websites, which got a big reaction.